Tag Archives: Facebook

300 Million Strong

September 16, 2009 – 9:46 am

Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, has announced on his blog that their networking site now has more than 300 million active monthly users around the globe.  Mark also revealed that the service had started making money ahead of schedule (expected in 2010).   Apparently Facebook hit the 250 million user mark back in July. It’s estimated that [...]

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Social Good on Mashable

June 23, 2009 – 8:31 am

Our favourite social media site, Mashable, is this week profiling charitable initiatives that are maximising social media use .. their first post is about LIVESTRONG, the cancer Foundation founded by Lance Armstrong.
The organization has been using social media in a great manner, from a regularly updated blog, to MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter [...]

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Facebook now in Swahili

June 15, 2009 – 4:50 pm

Facebook has launched a Swahili language version, targeting more than 110m Swahili-speakers mainly living in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, parts of the Horn of Africa, Malawi, Mozambique and the Indian Ocean islands. Analysts say a Hausa version could be launched next in West Africa and Zulu for southern Africa. Facebook already exists [...]

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Get Ready to Register: Usernames Coming to Facebook

June 10, 2009 – 8:08 am

Yesterday Facebook announced on their blog that it’ll soon allow users to register usernames and custom ULRs on it’s site.
On June 13th, people will be able to register Facebook.com/YourName, bringing Facebook in line with two of its biggest competitors, Twitter and MySpace, both of which offer vanity URLs for profiles. Currently, for someone to [...]

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Social Media Abuzz with Swine Flu (H1N1)

May 5, 2009 – 11:05 am

Social media has over the past week been domianted by swine flu (H1N1) discussion. This weeks experience is the perfect example of why health/development agencies must take their messgae to where people are, and where the discussion is happening.
WHO raised the pandemic level to an alarming 5 (out of 6), and panicked people across the [...]

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WHO releases virus for Immunization Week

April 22, 2009 – 10:29 am

For its fourth European Immunization Week (EIW) the World Health Organization (WHO) is, for the first time, leveraging innovative Internet-based viral techniques and social media to advocate for immunization across Europe. The initiative, taking place in 36 countries from 20-26 April, is spearheaded by an animated YouTube video. launched today, that aims to spread the [...]

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Latest from the Twitter Wars

April 21, 2009 – 7:56 am

Last week, Hollywood actor Ashton Kutcher reached 1 million followers on Twitter becoming the first on the micro-blogging site to reach the million mark and winning an unofficial race against CNN .
As the first to reach a million, Ashton has promised to donate 10,000 mosquito nets to Malaria No More with CNN promising to match [...]

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Twittering adults

March 27, 2009 – 9:26 am

Nielsen Online has published a new study which shows that Twitter is the fastest growing site in the ‘member community’ category, unique visitors to the site grew from 475,000 in February 2008 to 7 million in February 2009!  Zimbio, the interactive magazine, and Facebook followed, growing 240% and 228% respectively.
Interestingly, the fastest growing users of [...]

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Earth Hour Approaching

March 25, 2009 – 11:04 am

WWF’s 2009 Earth Hour (Vote Earth) will take place again on Saturday 28 March, at 8.30PM (local time, wherever you live).  The campaign that started off in Sydney in 2007, has grown in to a 84 country effort, aiming to reach 1 billion people in 1,000 cities.  The campaign uses social media in all ways [...]

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Comic Relief goes digital

March 13, 2009 – 2:54 pm

Today’s  Comic Relief efforts are looking to social media to help raise awareness and funds fror their cause: pages  have been launched on social networks, including Bebo, YouTube, Flickr and Twitter. Social network site users can also buy virtual red noses online… high profile Twitterers such as Stephen Fry and Jonathan Ross have been ‘wearing’ [...]

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