Kansas City SEO and SEM

by: Anne Haynes

We are seeing strong Linkedin and Facebook integration daily. Here is the deal. If you receive a request for BranchOut on Facebook and you think, why should I ever duplicate my data from Linkedin to Facebook? You are correct and don’t copy and paste from Linkedin to Facebook. Soon enough you will see a Linkedin integration button on Facebook and I clicked that button tonight.

What’s not so great is the recommendation import feature on Linkedin. It doesn’t exist. In my opinion it seems like a milestone missed, but for other’s it may be a feature worth never seeing. Follow me here; some people are very different in work lives in comparison to personal lives. And for this type of Facebook users I would not want to add the BranchOut application to my portfolio of apps. But for professionals who are transparent and have nothing to hide, BranchOut is a blessing. So which one are you?

Social Media is a filter for integrity, truth and moral character. If you decide to behave in your life or your career in an inappropriate way, you can’t run from it. So, do the right thing and know the internet is our digital police.

As for Linkedin being fully integrated with Facebook BranchOut, I give it another quarter for a full integration.

This week I watched Eli Pariser: Beware online “filter bubbles” on Ted.com and it hit home to me. I’ve said in the past, Facebook is the AOL of our time. In this video Eli Pariser expands AOL to Google and all information providers within the internet. It hits home when Eli says, “We really need you to make sure that these algorithms have encoded in them a sense of the public life and a sense of CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY” – I believe in what he’s saying; I don’t want my life to be tailored to my interest, it’s the freedom of the internet which peaks my interests. I don’t want information delivered to me, I seek to find it on my own.

This is a must see video for everyone.

Quotes from Eli’s Speech:
“Now we are kinda back in 1915 on the web and we need the new gate keepers to encode that kind of responsibly into the code they’re writing. You know, I know there are a lot of people here from Facebook and from Google, Larry and Sergey; people who have helped build the web the way it is and I’m grateful for that, but we really need you to make sure that these algorithms have encoded in them a sense of the public life a sense of CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY. We need you to make sure that their transparent enough that we can see what the rules are, that determine what gets through our filters. And we need you to give us some control, so we can decide what gets through and what doesn’t. Because I think we really need the internet to be that thing, that we all dreamed it of being. We need it to connect us all together; we need it to introduce us to new ideas, new people and different perspectives – and it’s not going to do that if you leave us all isolated in a web of one.”