Appirio Product Tip: How to use Facebook at Work

As the enterprise begins to take note of social media like Facebook, and look for ways to get involved, you may find your work life encroaching on sensitive personal information.

To address this, we've created this quick guide to keeping your Facebook personal and Facebook work life separate. Enjoy!

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How can you use Facebook at work while still maintaining privacy over your personal life? For example:

• Do you want to control who sees photos of you, even when they are tagged with your name?
  
• Do you want to keep your colleagues from seeing your frequent and personal status updates?

Believe it or not, you can do all these things in Facebook. There are two steps. First, sort your Facebook friends between work friends and personal friends. Then, determine which parts of your Facebook profile will be visible to which set of friends.

Here's how:

• Login to Facebook, click on "Friends," and "make a new list" of friends. You'll be prompted to type in the names of friends you'd like to add to this list. You want to create a list for every group of friends from which you want to hide some part of what you do on Facebook.

• In the upper right of your screen, click settings / privacy settings, and configure each element of your Facebook Profile. Click "Profile." Then, select "customize" under each element of your profile, and select to "exclude" your work friends list from the portions of your profile you'd like to keep private.

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That's it! Now you can maximize the benefits of leveraging your expansive and fun-to-use social network for work use, with defined barriers between the two.

To find out more about our work connecting Facebook and the enterprise, check out our current projects below, and follow us on Twitter for our future releases.

• MyFriends@Work
• Jobs4MyFriends

MyFriends@Work Goes Viral!

In our mission to Accelerate the Adoption of On-Demand, and Connect the Cloud, we announced on 10/23/2008 our new Facebook application that allows businesspeople to use their social network to get their job done by connecting Salesforce to Facebook. Today we are inviting users and spreading the word using the viral nature of Facebook.


MyFriends@Work compares your list of Facebook friends to all the contacts, leads, and users in your company's Salesforce org. When there's a match, we'll let you know via notification or via email whenever your friends do business with your company. MyFriends@Work is a free application from Appirio available on Facebook.

Here's what you can do now to get started:

• Watch a demo of the application, read the press release, and check out our product page
  
• If you haven't already, sign up for a free Facebook account, and become a fan of Appirio!
• Add MyFriends@Work to your profile
• Enter your Salesforce creditials and check out your Salesforce "feed"
• Send your friends at work "thank you's", "introductions", and "recommendations"!
  

Appirio wants to help companies use social networks in every area of their business to more effectively promote their brand, generate new business and even find new employees. Contact us to learn more.