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 [...]
Everywhere you lend an ear these days, people are talking about Facebook. And they’re saying that if you don’t have a Facebook presence with your business, you’re missing out.
Well, this is like so much else in life: true and not true. It depends.
You may, after all, be in such a situation that the precepts of [...]
In this post, I’m going to cover some of the basics for understanding your Facebook Privacy settings. An article in the NY Times recently showed an amazing graphic depicting the complexities of Facebook’s privacy settings. Understanding how to navigate your privacy settings in Facebook these days is crucial because it will help you be aware [...]
Over on the Facebook blog, they announced today that they launched some additional security features aimed to help keep your account from being hacked as well as a system for notifying you right away of a potential hack of your account. Facebook has to constantly be fending off malicious attacks and hacks of accounts so [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
In this post, I’m going to cover some of the basics for understanding your Facebook Privacy settings. An article in the NY Times recently showed an amazing graphic depicting the complexities of Facebook’s privacy settings. Understanding how to navigate your privacy settings in Facebook these days is crucial because it will help you be aware [...]
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 [...]
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 page [...]
Over on the Facebook blog, they announced today that they launched some additional security features aimed to help keep your account from being hacked as well as a system for notifying you right away of a potential hack of your account. Facebook has to constantly be fending off malicious attacks and hacks of accounts so [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 up [...]
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 one account [...]
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 it is you [...]
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 [...]
