Facebook has always been at its most powerful when audiences share content with their friends independently, rather than engaging with updates put out by an organisation.
Their subjects engage in updated versions of self-construction, following in the footsteps of ancestors who liberated "themselves from the legacy of caricatures that sought to define them throughout most of Western visual history".
In order to keep participants engaged and updated, congratulation cards were sent after the birth of their baby, as well as newsletters semi-annually containing such information as project progress and findings (e.g., most popular baby names), preliminary results and research team member profiles.
Be sure you make time to work them, frequently pushing out updates and engaging with your audience.
"In the last six years, more climbers have started engaging in almost-live updates from the mountains," said Katie Ives, the editor of Alpinist magazine.
It must be noted that DipNote, the State Department's official blog, has done a terrific job updating and engaging readers.
The new rule, in the Offender Orientation Handbook, stated that inmates "are prohibited from maintaining active social media accounts for the purposes of soliciting, updating, or engaging others, through a third party or otherwise".
It prohibits Texas inmates from "maintaining active social media accounts for the purposes of soliciting, updating, or engaging others, through a third party or otherwise" -- and raises serious First Amendment concerns.
Once the conversation is engaged, the interface updates immediately in context, enabling the kinds of swarms that have grown around Gillmor Gang recording sessions.
And in my own experience using a Nokia 920, I found that the social aspects didn't really draw me in or make me feel any more socially engaged – surfacing social updates just reminded me how largely disconnected I actually am from the majority of people in my Facebook stream, in fact.
