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Warning About Malicious Group on Facebook Protesting $14.99 Charge

If you’ve seen something like this on Facebook: “WARNING ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Don’t go into or open the group “WE’RE AGAINST THE 14.99 A MONTH CHARGE FOR FACEBOOK FROM JUNE 30TH 2010″, it has a virus in a link that opens unstoppable windows with horrific images of humans in states of [...]

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NEW: Reply To Facebook Comments Via Email

Facebook is launching a new feature today that will allow you to reply to Facebook comments via your email.  Basically when you get an email notification that someone has commented on your status, you will be able to reply to that comment without having to login to Facebook.  Below are the screen shots Facebook used [...]

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Top 10 FAQ’s About Facebook Fan Pages

Below are the Top 10 Recurring Questions I’ve been asked about Facebook For Business and Fan Pages.   You’ll notice that almost all of the answers below contain a link to a blog post I wrote previously where the question was answered.  I wrote this particular blog to make it easier for you to get all [...]

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Rumors About Facebook Privacy Settings & Search Engine Indexing

Facebook updated their Privacy Policy on December 9.  I’ve now started seeing this type of post making its rounds on Facebook and it is NOT completely true and it misleads people: As of today, Facebook will automatically index all your info on Google, which allows everyone to view it.  To change this option, go to [...]

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WARNING: New Facebook Promotions Guidelines May Get Your Account or Fan Page Disabled

Do you run contests, competitions or sweepstakes from your Facebook profile or fan page?  If you do, you’d better read this!  If you violate Facebook’s Promotions Guidelines, you run the risk of having your Facebook account or Fan Pages disabled. I’ve gone over Facebook’s Promotions Guidelines (revised November 4, 2009) several times trying to decipher [...]

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Facebook Fan Pages Now Integrated With Hootsuite!

I can’t even explain how happy I am about this!  Just this morning Hootsuite announced that they added Facebook Fan Page integration. I have been using Hootsuite, a web-based tool, for managing my Twitter activity.  In the last week or so, Hootsuite added integration with LinkedIn and Facebook Personal Profiles.  This made it possible for [...]

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Facebook Improves Privacy For Their 350 Millions Users

Today Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook now has 350 million users!  Just 2 short months ago, Facebook had 300 million users and just a few months before that they were at 250 million users.  Facebook is experiencing tremendous growth and is constantly making changes and improvements to their social network to keep up with [...]

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How To Migrate Fans From Old Fan Page To New Fan Page

Have you ever started a new Facebook Fan Page and wanted to migrate Fans from your old fan page to your new fan page?  Unfortunately there is no automatic way to do this.  BUT, here are my recommendations for what you can do to get some of your old fans to become a fan of [...]

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How To Target Fan Page Status Updates By Country, State or City

New feature added to Fan Pages that allows you to target an individual Status Update so only specific fans see the update.  If you have a drop-down menu next to your Status Update “Share” button, click the arrow, select Custom and then enter the area you want to target.  Only fans in your specified geographic [...]

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Facebook’s Guidelines On Promoting Your Fan Page Outside Of Facebook

Facebook has published guidelines that you must follow when promoting your Facebook Fan Page outside of Facebook.  The guidelines cover: Use of the Facebook name Use of Facebook icons, logos, visuals, screen shots, badges, etc… Use of the registered trademark symbol (and legal copy to use) When a Trademark License Agreement is necessary As stated [...]

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