Week 2

On my Google Alerts for my last name, I normally receive news about my father (Daniel) who is a politician or my cousin (David) who is a athlete at Tufts University. Professor Laskin had emailed me to inform me that someone had commented about my blog, and I finally received a Google Alert pertaining to me! It's very neat how I had only written one post about my semester long topic and someone already noticed. I never would have guessed anyone in the Investor Relations world would be interested in my blog and am honored.
I also then realized that I am a Facebook business fan page admistrator. My dad put me in charge of updating the family business's fan page (here). Although, I still cannot seem to convince him to advertise to gain more fans, because the fans are mostly the year round locals instead of the summer tourists. I am interested in how much it would cost to get the page more exposure. I will admit it is difficult to update the page while I am away at school, but I try my best to keep the page fun and fresh.

So now to what is happening with Facebook in this week's Google Alerts. Companies mentioned include: HardwareGeeks.com, Aruba Networks, Candidate Debra Medina, Hawk Associates, The Cheese Cake Factory, First Mariner Bancorp, government relations page, Healthy Coffee International, Asana, Zappos, Visa, and California Pizza Kitchen.

Some unrelated interesting articles were also included, one about The Impact of Social Media on Communications Recruiting, one about Facebook and Twitter Causing Students to fail English now, and one about Moms on Facebook.

A FREE Webinar about Social Media & IR is coming up on February 11th.
I also learned that the Kid's/Tween's version of Facebook is kidswirl.com.

After coming across familiar names and new names, I thought of the idea, what if i go to Facebook and search "investor relations." The search results include 3 groups simply titled "investor relations" and three web results including Google, National Investor Relations Institute, and Apple.