[Chapter-delegates] On visual identity of FB pages

[Ed Tric]

Hi Thomas,
Our chapter does not invest directly time and effort in FB , but we do invest a lot in communicating (including information and education regarding privacy issues) with people  using FB. 
Why ? Let's take a look at some local facts and figures  :

At this time, Facebook says that Romania has 3,728,280 users (out ouf 20 milion total population  - it's almost 25% !), the number of female and male users are in balance: 50% of them are women and 50% men. In addition, 33% of users are aged between 18 and 24 which sums up a total of 1,193,050 users. The largest increase in the number of users in the last three months has occurred in the interval 25-34 years , reaching a rate of 31% of all users (source http://www.strategy.socialnetworks.ro/2011/ and http://www.manafu.ro/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/infoGrafic_web.jpg ) .
Moreover , we've got 60 INET Bucharest registrations  confirmed by FB channel  http://www.facebook.com/events/117475621692683/ .

We had to make a choice weather to run away from the FB problem of face it.
We decided to fight by educating FB users, it's a long term investment, but we see already some encouraging short term results.

Regards,
Ed
http://www.isoc.ro
 

 
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Lowenhaupt" <toml at communisphere.com>
To: "Chapter Delegates" <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 5:39:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] On visual identity of FB pages


Regarding investing time and effort in FB... 

Note that Facebook is a privately owned space. Should ISOC take a position against a FB practice, you might find your effort has been wasted. 

Tom Lowenhaupt 
ISOC-NY 



On 11/18/2011 5:33 AM, Marcin Cieslak wrote: 

On Fri, 18 Nov 2011, Joly MacFie wrote: 



However just now, on a guess, I just tried chapter-support at isoc.org and, 
you know what? It went through. Now I am "waiting for confirmation". 

Join the party! - https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=167151636680007 

You hacker! 

Does it work for Pages? I'd rather hide myself behind the page (and behind two other poor souls that admin our FB page). 

One thing I noticed is our poor visual identity. 

ISOC logo (especially the official "chapter logo") does fit 
very poorly into current trends of square profile images. 

I love Joly's solution to this problem; I decided to get rid of the ISOC 
right-hand-side hatch to make it more readable. 

I am all against "harmonization" i.e. making all chapters forcibly 
look the same and use the same identity, but please DO check 
how your logo looks in a cut-down and scaled-down square form. 
It's easy to see on Facebook on our page "who likes us": 

http://www.facebook.com/browse/fanned_pages/?id=173964819359770 
(requires FB login) 

Same problem applies to sites like Twitter, actually. 

//Marcin 


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