Comments on: Why is the CBC Facebook group so lame?

By: Readings: 2007-07-21 « Kempton’s blog

Readings: 2007-07-21 « Kempton’s blog — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 23:21:36 +0000

[...] Why is the CBC Facebook group so lame? – Interesting & insightful posting and comments. Perfect timing for my dip/jump into Facebook. It is a tool that has the most potential to surprise. [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 02:41:27 +0000

In terms of transparency, why is the comment function for this video (a piece on “working for CBC”) disabled?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsVh9wjRIkU

By: Swiv

Swiv — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 14:09:38 +0000

As usual, Ouimet’s nailed it. What you say in Facebook is attached to your name and photo. CBCers are smart enough to know that the bosses are almost certainly watching what’s said in a public forum as big as facebook, and that creates a chill effect (I’m predicating this on my own assumption that increasing CBCer participation would equal lots of critical things being said — which I think is a pretty safe bet).

What would be interesting would be to see how the CBC Facebook ‘network’ compares to other workplace networks in terms of activity, etc. I suspect that with the exception of the few orgs that have already demonstrated a real belief in the ‘new transparency’ trend, most of them are just as quiet as ours.

By: Ouimet

Ouimet — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 01:37:37 +0000

Real email addresses and real names.

By: Todd Sieling

Todd Sieling — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:58:35 +0000

If it has to be someone’s task to make it work, it won’t, period. People talk where they feel comfortable talking, and it’s apparent from the group that Facebook just doesn’t do it for people. The thing to do is to find out where they do talk, and to find ways of making those channels more open (if that is the desire) or to stregthen them so they keep growing with the organization and the times.

By: Stranger

Stranger — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 23:17:57 +0000

Why is the CBC Facebook so lame? Because Facebook is for YOUNG PEOPLE.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:43:06 +0000

CBC Worker says – “we have a strict journalistic policy within the CBC” Thanks for the laugh! I had a hard day at work in my private enterprise job today and this was sorely needed.

No – the CBC wouldn’t want their employees broadcasting personal viewpoints. Bwahh ha ha ha ha!

By: CBCworker

CBCworker — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:10:08 +0000

Because we have a strict journalistic policy within the CBC, many news employees are probably not sure how and what is ok to do in Facebook. Can you state your religion? Your political views? How much personal info can and should you post? Facebook encourages users to list all the above. While the CBC doesn’t want us broadcasting such personal viewpoints…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:07:12 +0000

Have the considered the fact that Facebook is a great social network, but really sucks as a message board?

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:52:56 +0000

I dunno if CBC should make more of an effort..I mean it’s not CBC wide. The Radio 3 group is going pretty well

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2211393123

3,139 Members, 32 Discussion topics, 526 Wall topics – and that’s just for Radio 3

But for the most part it seems to go better when the CBC doesn’t do it themselves…like the I heart CBC group, There are now 531 members in the R3TV group – http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2350312148 and 4,449 on the Myspace http://www.myspace.com/cbclove but, Triple Sensation, for example has only 273 … if it’s the people who ‘own’ the CBC maybe it’s best to let them do the ‘online’ part of it, for whatever reason – with the exception of Radio 3, it just seems to be received better when it’s not official.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:41:03 +0000

Ugh. The “I Heart CBC” group was active and popular long (in facebook terms) before that awful Great Canadian Wish List was born.

By: Blake

Blake — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:26:03 +0000

Facebook is personal
CBC is work

They don’t mix.

I do, however, suggest you check out the profile for “Chinook P. Falcon”…

By: a CBC employee in the CBC network

a CBC employee in the CBC network — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:09:06 +0000

When the lines between work and your personal life start to blur, life can become a scarey thing.

My boss is in the CBC network…and I don’t want to have to go and set up tons of filters to block things that she or others in the network can see. We get along great, my boss and I, so I don’t mind so much, but i’m sure my opion would differ if I couldn’t stand her.

Besides, it’s much too easy to track ‘productivity’ using Facebook…
“how come that report isn’t ready but you’ve added 10 news friends and posted a note and joined a network all between 9 and 5?” OR “I thought you were sick yesterday, how come you’ve added all those pics from the beach?”

shudder…the horror.

I don’t blame CBC folks for not being ‘too active’ in the network. It’s only a matter of time before Facebook is blocked by Websense (shoot…I hope I didn’t give the IT department any ideas)