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Will Your Brand Succeed in the New Facebook? Aaron Everson | October 4, 2011 | 1 Comment inShare46 Ways to know if you're on the right path. Change is constant. For social media marketers, few events have illustrated this like the whirlwind of announcements from Facebook recently. The announcements at f8 (Facebook's developer conference) about the revamped News Feed, Ticker, Timeline, and Open Graph apps are exceptionally promising for users, for app developers, and for the Facebook platform itself. View all interaction through the lens of storytelling.
Eye-catching photos. What The Changes To Facebook Mean To Marketers And Advertisers | The Star Group. Posted on Fri, Sep 23rd, 2011 In case you missed the news, and quite frankly how could you... Facebook unveiled some major changes yesterday during their annual f8 conference. And marketers and advertisers would be wise to take notice. The Timeline... The biggest change, at least that's what I'm hearing anyway, is the introduction of the Timeline which will replace a users profile with a timeline of events from their (Facebook) lives: status updates, photos and so on.
The Timeline will also provide others with the opportunity to explore updates from their friends from a number of differeing timelines - the current week, to last week, to last month. Additionally and perhaps the most critical aspect of the new Timeline app is the fact that the Timeline will NOT show actions such as "liking" a given brand's page.
There is, however good news as the folks at business2community tell us " . .. And if you're so inclined, here's how you can try Timeline for yourself right now. Open Graph... Here's How To Get The New Facebook Timeline Right Now. Facebook Timeline is of huge importance to you, but not anybody else. Vi introduserer tidslinjen. Why I Love Facebook Timeline [OPINION] How to set up Timeline: Facebook has announced big changes in the past few days, and one of them is Timeline, a new way of looking at your personal data that will change the way you use Facebook — and even the way you look at yourself. I love it, and here's why. When CEO Mark Zuckerberg demonstrated Facebook's new Timeline profiles at Thursday's event, it all seemed abstract to me at first.
But as his own personal timeline scrolled on the big screen behind him, racing from his birth to the present, I began to understand the significance of presenting personal data this way. The next day, we found a way to enable the Facebook Timeline prior to its widespread rollout. Digging deeper, I noticed you can go back and add events from the distant past to round out your timeline. With Timeline, you can even add points in time when loved ones have died, and accompany those dates with pictures, text and video.
Scrapbooks have been around for a long time; timelines have been here, too. Will You Fill in Your Facebook Timeline Gaps? [POLL] 10 Facebook Timeline Designs That Will Blow You Away [PICS] Tech Buzz: Here’s How To Enable Facebook Timeline Right Now. HOW TO: Make the Most of the New Facebook Timeline Cover Photo [PICS] Facebook Timeline Redefines User Profiles. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has unveiled the company's much anticipated overhaul of profile pages, transforming the user profile into a virtual scrapbook that digs all the way into your past. At the company's f8 developer conference in San Francisco, Zuckerberg laid out Facebook's vision for the future of profiles.
He described the history of the Facebook profile, starting with the original profile from 2006, when Facebook was still known as TheFacebook. He explained that through all of these iterations, Facebook profiles have been a good gauge of what you're doing now, but they are not a good way to share what you or your friends have done in the past. "We're more than what we did recently," Zuckerberg explained to the audience. It was then that Zuckerberg unveiled Timeline, the revamped version of the Facebook Profile. It's a way to show off who you are, what you do and where you've been. SEE ALSO: Facebook Timeline: Here’s What It Looks Like [VIDEO]
How to Enable the New Facebook Timeline NOW. How To Enable Facebook Timeline Right This Second. [Update 12/15/2011: Facebook Timeline is now available to all Facebook users. Learn more about the global Timeline rollout for web, as well as Timeline for iPhone, mobile web and Android. To enable Timeline for your profile, visit This morning Facebook announced Timeline, a crazy (and kind of creepy) omnibus look at everything that has ever happened in your Facebook lifespan. It’s like a story book of your life — or at least the online, documented parts.
Facebook said that Timeline would be on the way for everyone sometime in the coming weeks… which is great and all, for everyone else. You’re the type of person who reads TechCrunch, and are thus likely the type of person who likes their new and shiny things right now. That’s okay. Fortunately, enabling Timeline a bit early isn’t too difficult — but it’s not at all straight forward, either. You see, Facebook is enabling Timeline early for open graph developers. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Why Facebook Timeline Will Be Huge for Brands. Zeny Huang is an Emerging Media Strategist at JWT New York where she helps brands connect with fans in innovative and meaningful ways using social media. You can follow her on Twitter @Zenidala. When Facebook unveiled Timeline last week, many users were struck by the idea of humanizing your profile by summarizing your life and connections. But what if you're not a human at all? SEE ALSO: How Facebook Timeline Might Radically Change the Look of Brand Pages [PICS] Timeline may have a similar effect on brands as well.
More Pictures, More Branding Opportunities According to Dr. Compared to the current Facebook brand page (which only allows the profile picture and five thumbnails to be customized, hiding photo albums and tagged photos beneath the Wall), Timeline unlocks new possibilities for branding, raising awareness and creativity. Brands Can Be More Interesting While conversations on Facebook still matter, information and content have become more prominent in the Timeline design.