Tuesday, May 17, 2011

The Importance of Social Design - "Why Facebook Needs Sheryl Sandberg - BusinessWeek"

Facebook's tentacles now touch millions of other websites, from the Huffington Post to Amazon.com (AMZN), that use its reader comment system, and its "like" and "send" buttons, to allow their users to share their content with their friends on the social network. Under Sandberg's direction, Facebook has begun preaching the mantra of what it calls "social design" to companies that want to remake themselves for the fashionable age of social media. It sets up Facebook brilliantly—those social ads may someday start showing up on any site that has a "like" button.

I guess it's official now since it is an official "mantra" at Facebook but I've been practicing Social Design with my clients since 2008.

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