Sales, Social and Tech

MOS Teo said he didn't post the following quote on Facebook- "I learnt that some workers prefer to sleep without a mattress as they are used to it back in their home country". The above quote that appeared with the photo in the Ministry of Manpower Facebook Page came under heavy criticism for being insensitive to the plight of migrant workers in Singapore. It created that much furore to have the story appear on  BBC website . The Ministry of Manpower has issued a statement that the post and the caption was put up by an unnamed Facebook admin. The question of many, especially the government ministry, must be asking how to approve a post before it goes "live" on the Page. Unfortunately, Facebook doesn't allow this function for any of the roles assigned for the Facebook Page. You could put a post on draft and get the other key stakeholders to sign off in the comments, but once you publish the draft post, the comments can be seen. With this...

The New Facebook Groups that was recently launched was touted to be great for Facebook users looking to share information with a small number of friends privately rather than openly in public. However, with Taggo’s recent tie-up with NUS School of computing to partner with their students Facebook project with retailers, the new Facebook Groups was a godsend as a tool to communicate with these student groups en-mass rather than having to mass email to the participating groups. There are four categories of privacy in the new Facebook Groups and if you are concern of public looking at the content, you can set it to the highest level of privacy at Secret Group so only members can see the content and none of the members will be shown as being part of this group. The New Facebook Groups has allowed me to address the issue faced by some Facebook users who encounter the message below when activating the taggo me app on the retailers Facebook Page. "Taggo me cannot detect your L...