How to Create a FaceBook Landing Page for Your Blog. 7 Scientific Ways to Promote Sharing on Facebook. InShare9 Leonardo Da Vinci once wrote, “simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” Kelly Johnson modernized that philosophy with an alternate twist, KISS, Keep it Simple, Stupid a.k.a. Keep it Short and Simple. In a social economy where attention is a precious commodity, the ability to strip a social object down to its essence to capture attention has less to do with compacting character counts and more to do with the art and science of packaging and presenting content so that it is immediately compelling, simple to grasp and appreciate and in turn, share across social graphs. For participants in the socialization of media, an ever-thinning attention span is forcing the rapid evolution of our ability to multitask – albeit at shallow depths.
Cognition is thereby stimulated by relevance, simplicity, and in social networks, the objects and content screened and shared by peers. Readability’s Effects on Sharing in Facebook Numerical Value Carpe Diem What Are Words For, When No One Listens Anymore. Facebook Gets a Suggested Pages List. New Facebook users now see a list of some of the most often "liked" Pages on Facebook when they sign up for the popular social networking service. New users get the option to choose from about 100 popular Pages.
These Pages mostly belong to celebrities, brands, news outlets and politicians. Eric Eldon first wrote about this new addition to Facebook's sign-up process on Inside Facebook and notes that this list is "clearly designed to get users engaged immediately. " To some degree, this list is similar to Twitter's now defunct Suggested Users List. Glenn Beck, Barack Obama, Walmart and the New York Times When we signed up for a new account to test this feature, Facebook recommended Peter Frampton's and Barack Obama's Pages to us, as well as the Pages of Glenn Beck, Trisha Yearwood, Walmart, American Idol, Starbucks, Tide, Coca-Cola and about 100 more Facebook pages.
Being included in this list will surely give these Pages a major boost in subscribers. Getting First-Time Users to Like Pages. How To Add A Custom Landing Tab To Your Facebook Fan Page. [UPDATE: In February 2011, Facebook replaced the FBML app with iFrames. For a list of great free and low-fee iFrame apps, see this BIG LIST of Apps on my Facebook fan page!] Let’s assume you have your Facebook Fan Page up and running now. (If not, see FANtastic Fan Pages for ideas and help). Some of the basics include adding a custom graphic, installing apps – particularly Static FBML, adding custom content including a landing tab, and ensuring you’re adding relevant, quality content on a regular basis.
If you have visitors to your Fan page and they are not yet fans, I call them non-fans, you ideally want those visitors to be directed to your custom Welcome Tab rather than your Wall. The idea behind this is you want to have a clear and inviting page that provides these visitors with an immediate sense of who you are, what you do, why they should become a fan, AND you want to provide a call to action with a nice visual to your Become a Fan button. Add the Static FBML iFrames App.