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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Use Facebook For Business In 10-20 Minutes Per Day!

If you are going to use Facebook for Business, you need to establish some guidelines to maximize your efficiency.  Answering questions like the ones below will help you establish a plan for using Facebook for business: What do you want to accomplish with your Facebook Fan Page? Will you maintain your Fan Page & Facebook [...]

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If You Don’t Use Facebook LIVE FEED…You Are Missing Out!

If you don’t view your Facebook home page using “LIVE FEED”, you are missing out on much of the Facebook experience.  At the top of your home page you will see one of the following and you can toggle back and forth between News Feed and Live Feed. If this is what you see…you are [...]

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HTML You Can Use In Facebook Notes

Did you know that you can use basic html in the Facebook Notes application?  I accidentally stumbled onto this info in Facebook a while ago and saved it.  I have absolutely no idea where I found it…LOL! Try using some of the following html commands to format your Notes text for greater interest and impact! [...]

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