Archive for June, 2009

REMINDER: GRAB YOUR FACEBOOK URL ON SUNDAY NIGHT

*Updated*
Cancel all of your Sunday night plans and get ready to spend the weekend in front of your computer.  On Sunday at 11:59PM, Facebook is finally allowing all Facebook Fan Pages (with over 100 fans) to pick up their unique URL.

This means that you’ll be able to stake claim to a personalized URL for your company that looks like this: http://facebook.com/cocacola instead of this: http://facebook.com/cocacola/page?=3928347283278.

Earlier this month, Facebook began the URL selection process by allowing Facebook Fan Pages with over 1,000 followers to select their URLs.  This left many smaller brands scratching their heads as they pondered why Facebook would exclude them from the name gold rush.  But, on Saturday night, everyone will have the opportunity to play in the sandbox.

So what does this mean for your company and why should it matter?

Having a shorter, personalized URL will allow you to place your new, easy-to-type Facebook URL on advertising on marketing materials.  And you’ll also be able to increase SEO for your Fan Page.  It’s just another way to get your name in front of potential customers, and an opportunity to trump the competition.

So don’t forget to log in and claim your name before someone else does.  Because once it’s gone, it’s gone forever.  And believe us, it’ll go fast.

For more information on Facebook’s URL selection process, visit here.

LIVE FROM #140CONF

140charactersconflogo LIVE FROM #140CONF

MGH is blogging and tweeting live from the 140 Characters Conference today.

Created by Jeff Pulver of VOIP fame, the 140 Conference (#140Conf) brings together some of the biggest names in the Twittersphere under one Broadway theater roof. Celebrities, journalists and marketers have come from all over to discuss Twitter and its impact on the “now.”

We feel honored to be a part of one of the first conferences of this nature and look forward to connecting with the tweeters of the world.

If you’re interested in following along, you can read live updates via Twitter’s search feed or check out the live video stream.

Update 9:22AM

Jack Dorsey, co-founder and Chairman of Twitter,  just finished up.  He discussed how Twitter has changed from “What are you doing?” to “Where are you going?”  If you actively follow along with Twitter and keep up with the hot news items and the sentiment of the people, you can actually almost glimpse into the future.  It’s about knowing what’s happening right now and being able to make assumptions on the future of everything.

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