Below is the memo Mark Zuckerberg’s sent to all Facebook employees announcing the hiring of Elliot Schrage as the company’s new VP Communications and Public Policy.

Hey Everyone–
I’m writing from India to share with you the good news that Elliot Schrage will be joining our management team as VP Communications and Public Policy. In this role, he will be responsible for developing the key messages we want people to understand about our products, our business and the growing global importance of social networking and what we do. The goal here is to help people understand how the internet can More»

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Google’s PR Chief Elliot Schrage left the company to take the same position at Facebook. Schrage will be Facebook’s VP Communications and Public Policy, reporting to Sheryl Sandberg who herself left Google to become the COO at Facebook. Schrage was famous for putting the best spin on several “Don’t Be Evil” protests at the company’s Mountain View campus and elsewhere.
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In Meanwhile, Back at the Plantation Nick Carr raises questions about the importance of who owns what in a social network. He looks at the recent sale of Bebo - the world’s third largest social network after Facebook and Myspace - to Time Warner. Carr notes that the founders in that case did not claim ownership of their participants content:
Birch, to his credit, did not claim ownership rights to the music and other creative work uploaded to his site. But neither did he offer any royalties or other financial benefits to More»

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