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[vid] Great Documentary on Facebook

[vid] Great Documentary on Facebook

Posted on 06. Dec, 2011 by .

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)

The New Facebook Timeline (How to Activate it Now)

Posted on 25. Sep, 2011 by .

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

How to Make a Great Facebook Fan Page – Five Essential Tips

Posted on 21. May, 2011 by .

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?

Can Facebook’s Growth Surpass China’s Population? What Do You Think?

Posted on 09. Feb, 2010 by .

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 .

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 .

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 .

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 .

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 .

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 .

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 .

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 [...]

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