Businesses May Soon Message Facebook Fans: How NOT to Screw Up
One of the biggest frustrations that I hear from businesses is that it is difficult to message “fans” on facebook. While it frustrates me at times too, I have also recognized that most people don’t want more SPAM, and so that is probably a good thing. No business owner ever thinks that their messages are [...]
Facebook: Friends, Lists and Subscribers
Okay, I promised a post on the latest Facebook changes and although I am sure there will be more to add, I am going to start here Here is how Facebook explains it: Facebook Pages and Profiles with Subscribe: Two Ways to Connect Facebook Pages are now used in a number of different ways [...]
Convert Your Facebook Business Page – Updated
Businesses on Facebook Rejoice! You Can Now Convert Your Business Page! For many business owners, figuring out how to leverage the power of facebook is confusing. The first point of confusion is in setting up ‘a business account’. It has been very common to see businesses set up as ‘personal accounts’. Many people still use [...]
Google Withdraws Address Book Access from Facebook
The squabble between internet giants continues. The latest is Google’s recent move to disallow facebook’s ability to allow users to find friends via their Gmail account. According to Google, this is due to facebook’s unwillingness to reciprocate by allowing Google to access facebook users data. While Google’s argument may sound plausible, the bottom line is [...]
Facebook Friendship Pages: Cool or Creepy?
Look! Another Facebook change! I know that just thrills most of you Let’s check it out: Facebook recently rolled out ‘friendship pages’. You may not have noticed them as they are only really ‘find-able’ via the little link that is created when someone posts a comment to someone else. It appears in the newsfeed: And [...]
What Have You Done For Me Lately?
I am always fascinated by how different people see things. I recently saw someone post on facebook that they are deleting any ‘friends’ that they haven’t heard from in X number of months. That is certainly their prerogative, but it made me pause. My initial reaction to the facebook post was to roll my eyes [...]
All New Facebook Groups – Does This Change Everything?
If you didn’t read my first post on the new facebook groups, feel free to start there! (Click here) Now that the new facebook groups have been out for a bit, I wanted to post my “take” on them so far. The new facebook groups are still ‘too new to tell’ in many respects, but [...]
October 2010 Facebook Changes: New Groups May Radically Change the Way You Use Facebook
After a 60 day lockdown at the Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, big changes to the social network were announced today. As always, I will break them down as simply (and non-techy) as possible. There are 3 Changes: 1. A new dashboard to help you better control your privacy, monitor the applications that you have [...]
How Facebooks New “NOT NOW” = Having NON-Friends as Twitter-Like Followers
Recently facebook changed the way that friend requests are displayed and handled. It seems like a subtle change, but it is an important one. Instead of being faced with accepting or ignoring, users now see Accept or “not now’. In spite of my jokes about facebook making it easier to procrastinate now, there are a [...]
Top 10 Ways to Be a Jack*ss Online
It never ceases to amaze me how many people who are very intelligent, commit ‘social suicide’ without having any awareness of it. The irony is, that I know many who are terrified of looking like an idiot online, and don’t need to be. Then there are others who are ‘oh so brilliant’ that do. People ask me [...]
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