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[vid] Great Documentary on Facebook
Posted on 06. Dec, 2011 by Brian Wong.
This is a great BBC documentary on the juggernaut that is Facebook. It does a good job to dispel the myth that was created by the popular movie — The Social Network and helps us to understand a lot more about how the company is evolving. It tells the story of the company from its [...]
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The New Facebook Timeline (How to Activate it Now)
Posted on 25. Sep, 2011 by Brian Wong.
What is it? On Sept 29, Facebook will release a new interface for your profile page called “timeline”. As the name suggests, this will display your entire life as a timeline. It will show updates, checkins, photos, videos and almost everything you have posted on Facebook all the way to your…well, birth! Here’s a video [...]
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How to Make a Great Facebook Fan Page – Five Essential Tips
Posted on 21. May, 2011 by Brian Wong.
Facebook is awesome. Its hard to deny that. I use it (like most people) to connect with friends and family near and far. But I also use it for my business connections and for networking. Its a good idea to keep these two groups separate. Here’s a blog post I wrote some time back about [...]
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Can Facebook’s Growth Surpass China’s Population? What Do You Think?
Posted on 09. Feb, 2010 by Brian Wong.
On a recent blog post, Mark Zuckerberg – the founder of Facebook announced that they have reached 400 million users after just 6 years. To put that number into perspective…only China and India has a greater population than Facebook! Take a look at this great infographic created by Pingdom:
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Why I Need To Start “UnFriending” People On Facebook
Posted on 12. Jan, 2010 by Brian Wong.
According to the New Oxford American Dictionary, “UnFriend” is the word of the year for 2009. And I am going to need to use it this year. With the growth of social networking, I am finding it increasingly difficult to separate business connections and personal connections. As social networking continues to grow, I’m sure many [...]
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How To Use HootSuite & Ping.FM to Publish Your WordPress Blog To All Your Social Media Sites
Posted on 22. Dec, 2009 by Brian Wong.
Let Me Set The Scene… I love blogging. But, I don’t want to spend time updating all my social media sites every time I write on my blog. I just want to focus on my blog and create awesome content. But what’s the point of great content if people don’t find my blog? Argh! The [...]
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How To Use Ping.FM To Update Multiple Social Media Accounts and Become a Social Media Ninja!
Posted on 21. Dec, 2009 by Brian Wong.
About Ping.FM Chances are you have more than 1 social media presence and that number will keep growing. Twitter and Facebook are most likely. You may also have a blog or Tumblr site. Perhaps you’re into photography and have a Flickr or PhotoBucket account. If you’re a social media Ninja like me, then you may [...]
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Facebook Marketing Case Study: Ikea
Posted on 26. Nov, 2009 by Brian Wong.
Here’s an interesting and recent case study of a traditional brick and mortar company using social media as a new marketing medium in an innovative way. In this case, some bright spark at an ad agency designed a way for Ikea to use their existing inventory and an existing feature in Facebook – photo tagging [...]
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WordPress Tip: How To Post to Facebook Pages Instead of Profile Pages
Posted on 26. Nov, 2009 by Brian Wong.
There are many WordPress plugins that allow you to post an update to social media sites. But when it comes to Facebook, its a little tricky. That’s because you can have a Facebook Profile page and a Facebook Public Profile page a.k.a. Facebook Fan Pages. Because your Facebook “Friends” are different from your “Fans” – [...]
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[Vid] Facebook Adds Twitter-Like Features to Status Updates
Posted on 22. Nov, 2009 by Brian Wong.
Facebook recently added a new feature to allow users to reference friends or Facebook pages in their status updates. Here’s a 2-minute video tutorial of how to make use of this new feature: Some notes, the “@” feature only works to reference friends in your Friend list and Facebook pages that you are a fan [...]
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How To Allow Twitter to Update Your FaceBook Status
Posted on 04. Aug, 2008 by Brian Wong.
If you use Facebook and Twitter, you’ll probably want your Facebook status to be automatically updated every time you post an entry to Twitter. This is a good idea because there are many more third-pary applications to update your Twitter status. This makes it extremely convenient to use. For example you could use “Twhirl” on [...]










