Aim: The aim of our study is to analyze and evaluate from a marketing perspective how estate agents can use facebook to strengthen their brand. Method: We have used an inductive study form where we?ve used a quality and a quantity data gathering method. The data has been gathered from an interview with Botkyrkabyggens marketing coordinator and from an internet survey based on a convience selection and a snow ball selection.Theory: SWOT, Brand Equity, Word of Mouth, Customer Relationship ManagementConclusion: Facebook can create and measure "word of mouth" effects, and also create better information management and flow of information compared to traditional marketing for an estate agent. The risks of facebook is the difficulty in educating the staff about the site and the fact that facebook dominates the policies and rules which suddenly can change.

På grund av vårt privata intresse för och användningen av det sociala nätverket Facebook, ville viundersöka en av dess funktioner närmare; statusuppdateringarna.Vi tror att Facebook är på väg att bli något som många inte klarar sig utan, eller inte vill vara utan. Facebook har helt enkelt kommit att få en stor betydelse för väldigt många människor i deras dagliga kommunikation och interaktion med andra, och just statusuppdateringarna är en viktig del av detta.Syftet med vår undersökning var att studera hur statusuppdateringar på Facebook ser ut. Vidare ville vi även undersöka anledningarna till varför individer uppdaterar sin status på Facebook, samt hur andra användares statusuppdateringar eventuellt påverkar dessa individer. Frågeställningarna vi ville besvara var; vilket tematiskt innehåll har våra insamlade statusuppdateringar, vilka anledningar ser våra informanter till att uppdatera sin status, samt hur uppfattar våra informanter andras statusuppdateringar på Facebook?Metoderna vi valde för att uppfylla vårt syfte och besvara våra frågeställningar var en tematisk analys av 393 insamlade statusuppdateringar från Facebook, samt två kvalitativa fokusgruppsintervjuer med tre informanter i vardera.

This essay analyses the use of history in the video game Assassin's Creed 2. How have the developers used history in their game? The paper also analyses how the game can stimulate, arouse and mobilize the historical consciousness of the player. The essay presents a theoretical analysis of the uses of history and historical consciousness. This analysis is then linked with the results.

På senare tid har Facebook förändrat förutsättningarna för bland annat hur dagens offentliga sjukhus kommunicerar med sina intressenter. Vissa sjukhus har känt ett behov av att förändra sin kommunikation till att bli mer strategisk och anpassa sig till stigande krav på ökad transparens som kommit från såväl allmänhet som medier. Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka och jämföra varför tre av Sveriges största offentliga sjukhus använder det sociala nätverket Facebook. Dessutom kommer det studeras hur kommunikationen via Facebook tar sig uttryck hos dessa sjukhus. Undersökningen har bedrivits genom kvalitativa intervjuer med anställda som är ansvariga för hanteringen av dessa sjukhus officiella Facebooksidor.

The aim of this one-year master thesis in archival science was to examine how municipalities take regulations concerning public records into account when they use Facebook. Another aim was to examine the involvement of archivists, registrars or similar staff in the management of the regulations. Since Swedish archival theory and practice has a close connection to the application of these regulations, such an examination was hopefully going to reveal tendencies of importance for archival science. The method used to collect information was a web questionnaire and the result was based on answers from 21 municipalities with an official Facebook page. The questionnaire showed that six of the municipalities regarded documents originating from their Facebook page as public records.

This study is an initial attempt to investigate the relationship between banks and developers in Stockholm and its regions. It gives a good impression about the field of construction and project developments in terms of the finance and the negotiations associated with these types of projects. Main actors of the Stockholm?s construction financing market were of major interest for this study. On this regard, the relationships and ramifications of this group were investigated by using a qualitative and quantitative research method.

BakgrundFler och fler företag väljer att annonsera sitt varumärke på facebook eftersom det är ett billigt alternativ till annan annonsering. Dessutom är det lättare att nå ut till sin målgrupp då annonserna är riktade.Syfte Ambitionen med denna studie är att ta reda på om facebook verkligen är rätt forum för alla sorts varumärken. Huvudsyftet för denna uppsats lyder:  Hur ser unga facebookanvändare på företag som annonserar på facebook?TeoriUndersökningen tar sin grund i logisk positivism. Jag stödjer även uppsatsen på grundläggande marknadsföringsteorier, övervakningsteorier och teorier om hur man bygger upp ett trovärdigt varumärke.MetodResultatet av studien baseras på en surveyundersökning med frågor som berör ämnet undersökningen fick totalt 88 respondenter.ResultatUr undersökningen kom det fram att en del branscher, så som sjukvård inte ansågs höra hemma på facebook.

There are no guidelines regarding how companies should design status updates on Facebook which attain good readability and engage the readers. Half the Swedish population are Facebook-users, but companies have yet to publish comprehensible messages on Facebook which effectively include the recipients. Inclusion is not just a matter of accessibility, but also of readability.Therefore, I studied how status updates should be designed on Facebook in order to increase the readability and to engage the readers. My target group is 22-32 year olds, since the company I worked with wanted to target this group. I conducted my research through literature studies, interviews with the client, analysis of past status updates, questioned an expert in social media, and organized a group interview with the target group.My research shows that status updates should contain information that is topical, informative and relevant to the target group.

This essay deals with the subject of communication through Facebook. In this survey we studied 100 youths from Karlstad and their communication habits and behavior patterns on Facebook. The social network site Facebook has since its start in 2004 made a mark in modern communication. Today in 2010 the site has more than 500 million users. This paper wants to study what happens to other types of communication.

?Facebook has become as natural as having a phone? The use of social media in three libraries in the Umeå region ? an evaluationSocial media has come to be an integral part of people?s everyday life, as well as the business world in terms of communication and marketing. More and more libraries also embark in the use of social media, and the purpose of this study is to evaluate the use of social media in three libraries in the Umeå region. The libraries all use Facebook as their current, primary social media. Thus this study focuses partly on the analysis of the content on each library?s Facebook page, and partly on the experiences of the responsible librarians. The evaluation is based on a mix of existing tools in evaluating social media that are relevant in a library context.

The diegetic game world places high demands on how it is designed. It is common that game developers wants to create a deeper player immersion and some developers believe to achieve this by integrating HUD elements into the game world. To find out how digital games can rely on the design of the game world, we performed user studies on beginners who have very limited experience of playing digital games. By observing the beginners, we could discern the visual aspects in the diegesis that helps players understand the game rules and objectives because the beginners won`t make their choices based on previous gaming experiences. If players encounter a variety of difficulties to understand the rules of a game, then it will less likely be a successful game.

In this Bachelor?s essay we discuss whether eWOM (electronic word-of-mouth) is perceived as advertisement or as normal information, which is not influenced by any company, on the platform Facebook. The information which we were interested in is the one spread by normal users, and user?s perception of it. To find our results we have conducted a study in which we have used the method interview, which gives qualitative results.

This essay deals with the subject of communication through Facebook. In this survey we studied 100 youths from Karlstad and their communication habits and behavior patterns on Facebook. The social network site Facebook has since its start in 2004 made a mark in modern communication. Today in 2010 the site has more than 500 million users. This paper wants to study what happens to other types of communication.

The use of mobile devices has during the last years expanded and on the market you can see a huge amount of applications. The development of mobile applications differs from traditional systems development since mobility infers that mobile applications can be used in different technological and social contexts. Although previous research has recognized that mobility can present mobile application developers with certain challenges, empirical studies of how problems arise and how they can be handled has thus far been limited. In this study we focused on the requirements engineering process from a development view with the purpose of finding challenges emerging in the development process. The study is based on a qualitative case study that employed semi-structured interviews with both project managers and system developers active in the requirements process.

This study focuses on the social medium Facebook. Its intention is to examine the contents of the Facebook statuses the Swedish parliament parties chose to publish in the final two weeks before the parliamentary elections in 2010. The key concepts used in the analysis are interactivity and multimodality. Aspects to be explored are interactivity of their status updates and how the parties used various multimodal objects. A comparison of the parties' usage also follows.