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Where Facebook's half a billion users reside
Facebook announced this morning that they now reach 500 million active users (just five and half years after launching). But where do these half a billion users reside? Refreshing my post from February , the share of users from Asia continues to rise and now stands at 17% of all Facebook users 1 .How To Create the Perfect Facebook Fan Page
This article is updated. If you are reading this in 2011, please see the new how to build a perfect Facebook page article . This is a guest post by Jesse Stay , founder and CEO of SocialToo.com and all around great Facebook Fan Page coder. He’s volunteered to give away a copy of his recent book, FBML Essentials , to two readers.
Inside Facebook has recently written about simplifying how you use Facebook with other social media tools in order to make life a little easier. We’ve discussed merging calendaring by syncing Facebook events with Google calendar and simplifying microblogging by syncing Twitter and Facebook status messages . For all of the bloggers out there, here’s another how-to that will eliminate the need for you to “re-blog” stories on Facebook. If you’re a blogger that isn’t already linking to your stories on Facebook, you might want to think about it. Here are a few simple steps to increase your web presence by leveraging the power of the social graph. Why not?
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Steve Coulson is a partner at The Advance Guard , a new media company that creates radical marketing programs using disruptive technologies, community platforms and social media. So – you’ve set up a Facebook public profile for yourself, your brand or your company, and you’re starting to post content. Now what?
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Samir Balwani is an emerging technology strategist at Morpheus Media , a firm specializing in Social Marketing, SEM, and SEO. You can follow him on Twitter @leftthebox and get his newsletter . For many companies a Facebook fan page is an integral part of their social media campaign. But, what elements help fan pages build up large followings and what can brands do to emulate the success of others? I've put together a list of specific elements that I believe have helped create fan pages with large, engaged, followings.
How To Drip Feed Your Blog Content To Your Facebook Fan Page | T
Posted on November 10th, 2009 by Samuel in Facebook Marketing I wanted to share with you guys something I learned recently. I wanted to drip feed my blog content to my FaceBook Fan page without having to do it manually. So I did a search on the web and didn’t find much but bits and pieces. It reminded me of when I tried to figure out how to add an Aweber opt-in form to my FaceBook Fan Page . So I took the bits and pieces that I found and put them together to create this tutorial for you.This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. So your business is on Facebook, and brand engagement is up thanks to some savvy social media strategy. You may even be interested in further distinguishing your brand by building a custom landing page for your account. But what kind of value does a custom Facebook Fan Page offer? What are your fans looking for on a social network that they can't get from your business website?
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CHECK OUT: Quite a number of facebook apps are not working till date. Head over to 23+ Essential Facebook Page Applications to Improve Fans Engagement in 2012 for latest app suggestions. Do you know there are over 20 million people join as fans of Facebook Fan Pages daily?
Data Shows: Articles Published on the Weekend are Shared on Face
When I started posting my new series of Facebook data points, one of the most requested graphs was the days of the week (and times of day, which is coming soon ) that are best to publish on to get lots of Facebook shares. What I found when I looked at days of the week is at first a little unexpected, but upon further thought fairly logical. While I found less articles posted on the weekends (notice the gray bars at the bottom of the graph which indicate volume of URLs analyzed for each day), those stories that were published on the weekends tended to be shared on Facebook more, on average, than stories that were published during the week . The reasons for this probably include the fact that more than half of companies in the US block Facebook , so people can only use the social network at home, on the weekends. Additionally, the mainstream Facebook audience does not use Facebook for work. The takeaway?