Comments on: Revisiting UK University Pages On Facebook

By: Planet Facebook Becomes Less of a Walled Garden « UK Web Focus

Planet Facebook Becomes Less of a Walled Garden « UK Web Focus — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 06:32:48 +0000

[...] following year, in June 2008 I wrote a post on Revisiting UK University Pages On Facebook. This post provided the following summary of the UK University entries will the largest number of [...]

By: Social network

Social network — Tue, 26 May 2009 21:55:06 +0000

Too many different social media tools within universities are causing confusion amongst students. The norm is to cobble together a mish-mash of stand alone media tools without thinking through the consequences of the data being held outside the organisation.

With free open source social network platforms available today, there is no excuse for this anymore.
A good example is the Elgg platform used by the University of Brighton. http://community.brighton.ac.uk/

By: A Framework For Making Use of Facebook « UK Web Focus

A Framework For Making Use of Facebook « UK Web Focus — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:28:38 +0000

[...] social network. The Open University, for example, provides details about its Facebook page (which, as I described last year seems to be one of the most popular University pages available in Facebook). Jo Alcock wrote a [...]

By: foom.com

foom.com — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:28:40 +0000

You may be interested in a newly launched UK based social networking site- foom.com

foom.com is about people who go out, so it has a real group page (foomspot) for almost every location, business and organisation in the UK. foom has cool friend making and flirting features. foom connects you with people from your favourite bars, pubs and clubs or from where you work or go to college.

By: Week 8: Social networking sites « Learning 2.0 @ Imperial College London Library

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:24:59 +0000

[...] Brian Kelly’s blog for a post on: Revisiting UK University pages on Facebook for more local [...]

By: The Open University’s Portfolio Of Web 2.0 Services « UK Web Focus

The Open University’s Portfolio Of Web 2.0 Services « UK Web Focus — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:01:51 +0000

[...] by Brian Kelly (UK Web Focus) on 3 July 2008 I’ve commented recently on the Open University’s use of Facebook (they have more ‘fans’ than any other [...]

By: New tools or new ways to check it out? « Digital Discourse

New tools or new ways to check it out? « Digital Discourse — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:51:08 +0000

[...] tools or new ways to check it out? This week Martin Weller has been commenting on Brian Kelly’s statement that the OU is the most popular university on Facebook. One of the contributing factors [...]

By: Brian Kelly (UK Web Focus)

Brian Kelly (UK Web Focus) — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:11 +0000

hi Patrick - my comment focussed on the surfacing of data which is managed elsewhere. However on a post on OU tops Facebook universities Martin Weller of the Open University, whilst acknowledging that the OU is different from other Universities, has a "hunch ... that the OU applications have contributed to the OU's popularity on Facebook". So perhaps development effort could bring business rewards. Martin agrees that ""it is difficult to quantify this (unless someone wants to give [him] lots of money to research it)". It would seem that the business case is currently unproven.

By: patrick h. lauke

patrick h. lauke — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:09:37 +0000

Finally we should remember that our institutions have a well-established tradition of making use of delivery channels which are not interoperable – the physical world of magazines, newsletters and bill-board advertisements

however, these delivery channels have a relatively proven track record of increasing awareness and resulting in enquiries. in the case of facebook, i still can’t see any hard data that justifies time and effort spent in managing data natively inside facebook (i.e. not an RSS feed that can be repurposed in other online media).