New Facebook Home Page: Better For Businesses!

Starting today, Facebook will begin rolling out changes to the home page which they feel will simplify your experience by giving you two different ways to view your Home Page News Feed.   You’ll be able to switch between a summary view (News Feed) and a real-time view (Live Feed). The links will show up just [...]

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Facebook Friend Invites: How To Get Yours Accepted

I can’t even begin to count how many Facebook friend invites I’ve gotten that are from people I don’t know.  What bothers me about these invites is that 99.9% of them are not personalized!  And guess what happens when I get this type of invite from a stranger?  I ignore it.  I actually have a [...]

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8 Ways To Use Facebook Search For Business

Facebook has expanded their search results which now include Posts By Friends and Posts By Everyone (if allowed by the users privacy settings).  These new options are very useful and I find them intriguing!  In the screen shot below you’ll see the various categories that you can use to filter or fine tune your search [...]

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Unlink A Facebook Fan Page From Your Personal Account

UPDATE 6/14/10:  Facebook finally allows a fan page creator to be removed as an admin. See Unlink Fan Page / Remove Creator for instructions. Based on what I’ve heard and seen in forums and Facebook help sections, many people want to know how to remove themselves as a Fan Page Administrator so that the Fan [...]

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Mixing Clients, Facebook Friends and Real Friends – Oh My!

There are numerous Facebook Privacy Settings that you can adjust to customize who you interact with and who sees your profile & wall posts on Facebook.  Before jumping to the settings, determine how you want to use Facebook: Do you want to use Facebook for business or just for personal use? Do you want to [...]

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Is Your Facebook Fan Page Giving Your Target Market What They Want?

I was recently asked if I knew of an “automated” tool for getting a lot of Fans for a Facebook Fan Page quickly and easily.  The answer is “no, I don’t”.  And if there was one I’m not sure that I would even use it. I truly believe that for a Fan Page to be [...]

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Facebook Fan Box Widget: You Will Love It!

Have you seen a Facebook Fan Box on someone’s website or blog?  This blog uses the Fan Box Widget in the right hand column.  I also placed an enlarged, customized version of the Fan Box Widget on my website.  Click the link to see what the customized version looks like. I love the Fan Box [...]

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Facebook Application Allows Fan Pages To Post To Twitter

Did you know that Facebook has a new Twitter application which allows Fan Page Administrators to update Twitter directly from their Facebook Fan Pages?  The application allows you to determine which type of updates you want to “automatically” post to Twitter:  status updates, links, photos, notes and events or all of the them.   See [...]

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Facebook @tagging Is Good For Fan Pages!

The new tagging feature recently announced by Facebook looks pretty awesome!  Here are a few things I learned by using it. Does the new Facebook tagging feature work from a Fan Page or a Group? It works from personal profiles AND fan pages.  It does not appear to work from a group at this time. [...]

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