6 Ways to Use Your Personal Facebook Profile for Business. What's New About Your Facebook Homepage. Reminder: Facebook Integration Isn’t Coming In Mountain Lion Until Fall. No Facebook in Mountain Lion for you… yet. A friendly reminder for those of you downloading Mountain Lion: Facebook integration will not be added until this fall. Apple has said that Facebook in OS X “will be available in an upcoming software update to Mountain Lion.” If you’ve been following the news, you know this already, but we thought it was worth reiterating today. While we don’t know for sure why it’s taking longer to add Facebook to the mix, our gut tells us Apple’s deal with Facebook got a little more complicated than both parties expected. Facebook in Mountain Lion is currently being tested by developers. This fall, OS X will be even more Facebook friendly. Stayingaliveuk : #Facebook get your act tog... Stayingaliveuk : The attached image represe...
Search engines driving less traffic to Facebook Pages: report. Some advertisers may be questioning their investments in paid Facebook ads, but even the brands most unhappy with Facebook's paid advertising offerings are, by and large, continuing to spend big bucks on their Facebook Pages. Those Facebook Pages may not technically be owned media, but Facebook Pages are free, and brands have more control over them than anything else on Facebook, so they're often treated like owned media. But while Facebook Pages are free, acquiring fans isn't and increasingly, brands are looking closely at acquisition costs. So it's probably not good news then that two of the largest search engines -- Google and Bing -- are reportedly driving less 'free' traffic to Facebook Pages.
According to Facebook analytics firm PageLever, which looked at 500 Facebook Pages with at least 10,000 fans, Google referrals to Facebook Pages have dropped a whopping 51% year-over-year. Referrals from Bing are down even more -- 59% year-over-year. The cause of this drop is not clear. Facebook Releases iPhone App for Facebook Page Managers. The Billion-Dollar Social Media Question - Rita McGrath. By Rita McGrath | 1:28 PM May 21, 2012 The Facebook IPO has ignited a predictable frenzy. It’s certainly true that social media have profoundly changed the way we interact, find information, and network — but the billion-dollar question is whether all this activity is going to generate solid economic returns.
The conversation about the business model behind sites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Pinterest reminds me of the conversations that took place during the 1990s tech bubble. There is the same faith that, if we can just get a new technology adopted, the business model will follow. People also seem to be obsessed with the number of users, which reminds me eerily of the lust for “eyeballs” that characterized the first wave of Internet-based companies. Back then, we thought that just getting a lot of people to a site was worth something (remember WebVan? Or Value America? We’re also seeing a bit of the “get big really fast” mentality that was so prevalent back in the day. Is Facebook the new Apple. Well Facebook have done it. They have silenced the naysayers, the doubters, the fund managers who are still smarting about the dotcom collapse, the users who curse Facebook every day for making changes to the user interface without any regard for them, and the app creators who rely on their business fortunes and hoping for the continued growth of Facebook.
Facebook went public and made billions. Yes indeed someone wrote a cheque to buy loads of shares to make the owners very very rich indeed. (and Priscilla Chan is a very happy girl too!) If you are reading this then it’s an 85% certainty that you have a Facebook account. How many “friends” do you have? And of those you probably only interact with a maximum of 6 and of those there are probably only 3 that you have a regular conversation with. Facebook’s growth has been phenomenal and unprecedented and there is no sign of it letting up. The other day I was reading my newsfeed when I spotted this amazing image of cookies. Michael de Groot: Can you spot the differenc...
Michael de Groot: Can you spot the differenc... Facebook Pages. Simplifying business ideas – A Facebook policy for grown-ups. Our Facebook Policy We have no Facebook policy. FAQ on our Facebook policy Say what? That’s right. We don’t have one. Don’t we have to have one? Says who? Why not? Because we only hire grown-ups to work here. But isn’t Facebook different? Why? I don’t know. I’ll say. What? Oh, nothing. There can’t be any harm in having a little Facebook policy. No. Oh. Totes. Still, without a Facebook policy, how do we know what we can and can’t post?
Look: somehow you managed to figure out that it’s a bad idea to yell on a street corner that your customer is a moron. So nothing will happen to me if I post on Facebook that my coworker sleeps with farm animals? No, dumbass. But there’s no policy against it. Now you’re catching on. Got it. Have a great day. How To Run Competitions On Facebook By The Rules. 378 Flares Twitter 0 Facebook 200 Google+ 73 LinkedIn 88 inShare88 Pin It Share 0 Buffer 17 Email -- Email to a friend 378 Flares × Running competitions on Facebook and the promotional guidelines surrounding them is a topic that constantly comes up for discussion.
Companies big and small can be seen breaching them and there seems to be a huge amount of confusion about what you can and can’t do. Contests are a great way of building your community but if you break the rules you risk loosing your page. The Promotional Guidelines And of course when Facebook originally issued their promotional guidelines they were huge and very confusing. The key points to remember are - You cannot run a Facebook competition on the ‘Wall’ of your page. . - You cannot condition entry on taking an action on Facebook, e.g. . - You cannot use any action on Facebook as a voting mechanism, e.g. . - You must include a disclaimer including text similar to: Rules Smules, everyone else is breaking them right?
The Good News. INFOGRAPHIC: Market To The News Feed On Facebook. Facebook Parenting: For the troubled teen. Facebook Timeline Becomes Mandatory. 39.3K Flares Twitter 753 Facebook 82 Google+ 23 StumbleUpon 38.4K Pin It Share 1 1 LinkedIn 94 inShare94 Email -- Email to a friend Buffer 6 39.3K Flares × Are you using the new Facebook Timeline? Whether you decided to shun the Timeline your time is nearly up! Facebook announced today that over the next few weeks it will become mandatory for all it’s 800 million members to use the timeline. The Facebook Timeline is a novel way to document your entire life online, through wall posts, photos, announcements and events. By using data already inside Facebook it acts as a kind of digital scrapbook of your life. You can rediscover moments forgotten from the past, as well as add your new experiences. But it is not just your life since being a Facebook user – you can add things that happened before Facebook on the timeline too. This is ultimately a question of personal preference over how much you wish to reveal to others.
Also, your privacy settings on old posts will remain. Features: Lilach. January Social Letter | Facebook Timeline | Use of Video | SoMe Marketing. f8 2011 Animationon f8 | Live. Facebook To Unveil Skype-Powered Video Chat Next Week [CONFIRMED] Four steps to improve Facebook fan page engagement: Part 1 « Blog [Brafton] Published on If you don’t already have a Facebook fan page, create one – fast. It’s increasingly important for brands to have not only a website, but also a Facebook page, LinkedIn profile and Twitter account. As Brafton recently reported, marketers are finding that social media drives traffic to sites and social marketing translates into leads and sales. Facebook is the social platform that companies are focusing in on this year, with three-quarters of marketers planning to increase their Facebook spend. It makes sense that businesses want to prioritize Facebook, with its 500 million active users and counting.
You should be taking advantage of Facebook as a corporate branding opportunity to reach out to and engage your customers, fans and prospects. 1. Your brand page shouldn't just include a quick business synopsis in the “info” section and a profile picture of your logo. Make it visual. · Add your company's top five photos. . · Display fan page photo tagging. 2.