New Facebook Timeline Rolls Out for Personal Profiles

As promised, Facebook has made changes to the personal profile once again. Your personal profile account is now a “Timeline.” The Timeline was announced back in August. As the new Timeline rolls out, users will be prompted to change over to the Timeline. One nice feature about this change is that users will be given [...]

Social Media Round Up

Just a couple of quick notes about some posts you might want to check out. The first is an interview that I did over on Business Darlings about my thoughts on the current state of social media.  I answer questions about How to measure success in social media Where I see social media going What [...]

Facebook Announces Deals for Local Business

Facebook announced this week the launch of Facebook Deals for local business which ties in directly with their Facebook Places feature. Sounds remarkably similar to Foursquare but Facebook has a much, much larger user base. Will this blow Foursquare and other geo-location services out of the game? This is yet another feature that local businesses [...]

Facebook Changes Become a Fan to Like

So Facebook is making some pretty big (and complicated) changes that will impact significantly how users use, navigate and perceive the platform. Among the biggest change is that users no longer “Become a Fan” of a fan page. Instead they will now “Like” a page and people will no longer be listed as fans, but [...]

Facebook Pages Now in Real Time Search

Google announced today via their Twitter account that Facebook Fan Page status updates will now become part of the real time search. This is huge for people who seriously consider Facebook as marketing avenue and want to use it as a tool to further get found by search engines. This means that updates from Facebook [...]

Find It on Facebook

Just a short and to the point post that will actually be a list of references for Facebook. You might be surprised how much information you can on Facebook about using Facebook! Facebook Marketing Page: A page run by Facebook which provide tips for using Facebook for marketing and brand loyalty. Facebook Pages Product Guide: [...]

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and Social Media

I became  a fan of the US Army fan page on Facebook after the shootings at Fort Hood last year.  Today I noticed an interesting status up from their page. (See below). I think this is a fascinating use of a government agency connecting with every day people  but it was also an interesting commentary [...]

What Facebook Fan Page Admins Need to Know

Facebook recently changed not only how news and updates are delivered to users, but they’ve also implemented a formula for deciding which news is delivered. When you log into Facebook, you will most likely first see “News Feed.” (Unless you’ve moved Status Updates to the top of your left side menu, in which case, you [...]

Facebook’s Changes to the News View

On Friday, Facebook made yet another change to how users see their news feed on their homepage when the log in. Previously, when you logged in you saw all the latest news and posts from your friends and from the fan pages you follow. Additionally, there was the “Highlights” section off to the right hand [...]

Facebook Widget for Your Business Fan Page

Facebook widgets can now be embedded on websites or blogs making it easy for people to become fans. This post provides instructions for how to do that.

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