Often when people set up their Facebook Page, one of the first things they want to know how to do is how to pull in their blog feed so that blog posts will automatically post to their Page when published. Many people will use a third party application to do this such as Networked Blogs, [...]
So much happens in the world of Facebook in one week, that it’s hard to keep up with it all. I’ve put together this post covering some of the bigger news of the week related to Facebook along with other news that is relevant to our jobs in using Facebook for marketing. Yesterday it was [...]
As you may have heard, Facebook recently launched “Community Pages.” It seems like most people haven’t really paid much attention to the whole Community Page concept but if you have a Fan Page or if you are going to be creating a Fan Page, then you need to be aware of Facebook’s policy about being [...]
It looks like it didn’t take very long for WordPress lovers to come up with a plug-in for adding Facebook‘s new Like button to WordPress sites and blog posts. Apparently, when Mark Zuckerberg announced the new Like button to world last week, the feature had already been made available to TypePad and Posterous users. Fortunately, [...]
There are two Fan Page settings that are important to know about that you might have missed or may have wondered about what their real purpose was. The first is found on your Wall right underneath your Status Update Box. There is a link called “Options.” If you click on it, then it will bring [...]
Often when you go to a Facebook fan page, you’ll see that they have added some customized boxes such as images and links back to their website, a box with an image that sends people to their Twitter account, or customized tab which looks like a web page and might include a call to action [...]
When it comes to setting up a Facebook page for your business or a professional page for yourself that you would like to be separate from your personal profile, there are a few ways to go about doing it. You will need to have a Facebook account with a personal profile set up. Keep in [...]
Creating and promoting an Event in Facebook is a powerful and often underused marketing tool. The cool thing about this application is that you can use it for real world or virtual events (such as teleseminars or webinars.) This post will cover the basics for setting up an Event and a following post will provide [...]
Facebook can be a confusing beast to tackle. What is a Personal Profile? What is a Fan Page? What’s the difference? If you are new to using Facebook and are interested in using it for professional networking or marketing, then it can be confusing to understand some of the general, basic differences about what exactly [...]
Setting up a Facebook account is a fairly easy and painless process. You will need an email address to sign up and you’ll need access to that email account to click on the confirmation link. A couple of things to keep in mind: According to Facebook’s Terms of Service, you are only allowed to have [...]
So, Facebook just became Face-to-Facebook. On Wednesday, Facebook announced they were partnering with Skype to give users the ability to video chat with their friends. For Skype users who already use video chat, it means you now don’t have to leave Facebook to do your video chatting. (Of course, this means you will have to [...]
Have you ever thought about what would happen if Facebook locked you out of your account or how to save all of your Facebook data if you decide to “deactivate” your account? I imagine many people don’t really think too much about all the photos or videos they have uploaded to Facebook or about everyone [...]
Facebook launched a new one page overview dashboard where you can now view all the pages you admin in one view that includes Page data and some Admin features. For those of us who are Admins on quite few Pages, this new dashboard can help with the management of the pages. To get to the [...]
Today Facebook implemented the ability for users to tag Facebook pages in photos. Tagging photos with a Facebook Page can help to increase brand awareness and as another possible way to increase fan base. For now, the tagging feature is limited to pages that are in the People, Product or Brand categories. Facebook says that [...]
There was report this week that indicated 93% of Facebook Profiles are not secure (sample size 2713 of users between 18 and 65 and on average users reported that they don’t really even know approximately 42% of the people on their friend list.) This might seem somewhat surprising given how often there seem to be [...]
A new “feature” added by Facebook this week that is designed to help Facebook Page Admins get their pages up and running. When you create a new Facebook Page, then you’ll see a Tab called “Getting Started” right before the Wall tab. On this tab, Facebook suggests you create status updates, link your page to [...]
Facebook finally implemented a feature that Facebook page owners and Admins have been asking for since the launch of Facebook pages…which is, the ability for any Admin of a page to remove another Admin. Prior to this, when someone created a Facebook page, then they were considered the “original” Admin for that page and the [...]
Using Tags in Your Status Updates and Comments
Many people use the tagging feature on Facebook to tag their friends in status updates, comments or photos. It’s also pretty common for people to tag Facebook pages that the “like” in updates and as of last week you can now tag Facebook Pages in your photos as well. Friends and Facebook Pages are not [...]
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