I’m On Facebook - Now What?
I just received a pre-release copy of Jesse Stay’s forthcoming book titled “I’m On Facebook, Now What?”, and I think it is fantastic.
For more information about the book, including availability, keep an eye on Jesse’s blog at http://www.jessestay.com/
Jesse Stay is co-author of the book with Jason Alba. They plan to release it by the end of January 2008.
The book is designed to help you figure out ‘how to derive professional, business and career benefits from participating in Facebook’. This, of course, appeals to Linking Universe because we, too, are concerned about bringing professional business applications to the Facebook environment, and to helping you better understand your social business network so that you can leverage it more effectively.
Jesse Stay has provided consulting services to our Linking Universe project and has been helpful in building our understanding of the expanding opportunities in Facebook applications. He is a Facebook expert and has successfully launched his own Facebook applications. His co-author, Jason Alba, wrote the book titled I’m on LinkedIn - Now What?.
In his introduction, Jesse Stay discloses that he has specifically written about Facebook because of the ‘tremendous growth and flexible development platform it provides’. We couldn’t agree more; these are the reasons we choose to launch our Linking Universe business applications into the Facebook environment. Jesse goes on to state that Facebook is ‘a very exciting social network that allows businesses and professionals an opportunity to promote their message, offering, and brand to a professional audience’. We are very excited about this, too.
The book gives good instruction and advice about starting a page in Facebook, taking advantage of applications, and incorporating Facebook into business practices. The book provides great advice about privacy, addresses Facebook do’s and don’ts, and offers some enlightening strategies for building and optimizing your social network.
Linking Universe gets a mention in the book as one of Jesse’s favorite Facebook applications. Jesse has been watching our development process as a consultant and has provided great advice along the way.
We are excited to see this book come to light, and wish Jesse and Jason the best of luck. I’m On Facebook - Now What? will be available as an eBook and in hard copy.
