facebook for educators
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Presentation delivered at TechEd '08 in Ontario, California.TRANSCRIPT
Facebook 101: What Every Educator Should KnowLaurie M. Bridges, Business & Economics LibrarianOregon State University, blog: infodoodads.com
Should college and university faculty and staff
be there??
Why should educators care?
• Popularity of the website• Serving generation Y (now and in the
future)• Social aspects of information sharing• Organization of information• Outreach opportunities• Advertising opportunities• Virtual networking with faculty, staff,
librarians, other educators, etc.
It’s Popular!
• Facebook is the most popular website for young adults age 18-24. More popular than Google. (Anderson Analytics 2007)
Flickr: Scott Beale/Laughing Squid
Top 10 Websites
Social Networking More Popular Among Women (18-24)
More Stats
• Over 58 million active users and more than 1/2 of them return daily (Facebook)
• 85% of college/university students have a Facebook account (Facebook)
• Facebook is the 5th most popular website in the U.S. (Alexa, March ‘08)
Flickr: castortroy520
Growth & Reach
• Members, features, updates
May 24
Sept.
Feb. ‘04
Facebook Usage
• Average user spends 20 minutes on Facebook per visit (Facebook)
• Average user visits 32 pages per visit (Alexa)
• Most Common Activities* (Freiert, 2007)1. Browsing Profiles2. Interacting with Applications3. Browsing Pictures
*based on visits per month and time per visit
What is Facebook?
Why Do People Use Facebook?
• Keep in touch• Network• Make friends• Date• Reinforce relationships• Etc.
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Homepage (News Feed)
Flickr: Geek&Poke
What’s in a Profile?
Cont.
Cont.
Applications
Applications – Most Active Users
• Fun Wall (2,146,258 daily active users)• Super Wall (2,130,285 …)• Top Friends (1,971,734 …)• Movies (1,193,392 daily …)• Bumper Sticker (947,289 …)• Scrabulous (669,245 …)• SuperPoke (621,245 …)• Texas HoldEm Poker (609,416 …)
Applications for Education
• Rate My Professors (337 daily active users)
• WorldCat (45 daily active users)
• Typing Speed (12,342 daily active users)
Applications for Education
• Study Groups• Admissions Applications• Class Schedules
Groups & Pages
Groups & Pages
Groups vs. Pages
• No updates
• No applications
• No usage stats
• Updates directly to user news feed
• Can add many applications
• Usage stats including visitors per day
Facebook Pages
• 164 Fans (after 6 months)
• Promoted on catalog’s blog and library website
Facebook Pages
• Charles B. Phillips Library, Aurora University
• Over 100 fans• Promotion: each new
Fan entered to win two Phantom of the Opera Tickets
University/College Pages
• University of Michigan• Ferris State• Georgetown• Union• Stanford• University of Surrey• University of London• Carnegie Mellon• Don’t forget: Alumni Pages!
Facebook Pages Stats
Advertising
Advertising on Facebook
UNC Chapel Hill – Focus Group Recruitment
University of Calgary – Increase usage of ebrary and Refworks
Buying an Ad
• CPM• Set the price for 1,000
views
• CPC• Set the price per click
Go to the bottom of any Facebook webpage and click the Advertisers link.
Create ad and tell Facebook when to run it and who to target
Pay for the ad (credit card)
Cont.
Events (collaboration is key)
Lingo
• Facebook Me/Friend Me• Poke• Wall
Questions??
Slideshow: www.slideshare.net/ilaurie
References
• Freiert, Max. “14 Million people interacted with Facebook Applications in August.” Compete.com. Sep 11, 2007. http://blog.compete.com/2007/09/14/facebook-activity-breakdown-application/
• Anderson Analytics, 2007: http://www.marketingcharts.com/interactive/college-students-facebook-top-site-social-networking-really-hot-1914/
• Facebook Stats: http://facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics
• Alexa: http://alexa.com/• Pew/Internet 2007:
http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/230/report_display.asp