The f-commerce FAQ [Download] All you ever wanted to know about Facebook commerce but were afraid to ask Well, here it is, the downloadable f-commerce FAQ – all you wanted to know about using Facebook as a platform for facilitating and executing sales transactions. We’ve distilled our analysis of f-commerce down to 15 key questions and answers, including 50 industry examples, proof-points, tips, and links. We hope you’ll find it useful. Let us know what you think! Read the f-commerce FAQ here or you can download it as a PDF (click image or here). The F-Commerce FAQ
jeffbullas Facebook marketing campaigns seem to be going all warm, caring and fluffy recently as brands realize that solving problems and helping those in need can be a very effective marketing tactic. Three of the Facebook campaigns in this list have an altruistic reason behind their campaigns, from donating $500,000 each to 20 schools to raising funds for the “Make A Wish Foundation”. The marketing goals for the Facebook pages vary but quite often the simple goal of just increasing their fan count to their Facebook page seems to be top of the list as brands have worked out very quickly that being able to communicate to 1,000′s or even millions of fans via a simple status update is very efficient highly leveraged marketing.
Photo tour of Facebook’s new datacenter Today I was very fortunate to have gotten a tour of Facebook’s new datacenter up in Prineville, Oregon (map). This datacenter is the most energy efficient in the world and only a handful of press got a look. We’ll have a video up after editing it, but here’s a look at the datacenter in photos. I shot all of these photos on an unmodified iPhone 4 with Instagram, that just got an update today. For the panoramic photos I was using Occipital’s 360 app. Commission européenne - ERASMUS Mobilité des personnels – Formation des personnels d'établissements d'enseignement supérieur dans des entreprises et des établissements d'enseignement supérieur The Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP) was designed to enable people, at any stage of their life, to take part in stimulating learning experiences, as well as developing education and training across Europe. With a budget of nearly €7 billion, the programme, which ran from 2007-2013, funded a range of exchanges, study visits, and networking activities. The activities of LLP continue under the new Erasmus+ programme
20 Tips to Get Your Content Seen on Facebook Facebook can be a great channel for spreading your content to a huge and active audience, but only if your content gets seen. Posting a video or a status update doesn't matter if no one sees it. Note: this article is based on a presentation I did for Social Fresh Tampa earlier this week. Check out the slides and resources here. What is "News Feed Optimization"? The news feed is the #1 most visible real estate on Facebook. Facebook Launches Twitter-Like ‘Subscriptions’, Lets You Share With Unlimited Users Today, in the buildup to its f8 conference, Facebook is rolling out another key new feature: a one-way follow model called Subscriptions. It’s sort of like Twitter, sort of like Google+, and it massages one of the service’s biggest pain points for users who have a lot of friends (or who want to share their status updates broadly). Here’s how it works. As you browse around the site, you’ll notice that some users have a button at the top of their profile that says ‘Subscribe’.
If You Use the Web, You Are a 'Curator' When you were four, you imagined "engineers" as men in striped overalls who shouted "all aboard!" from trains. Later you learned that most engineers study more than just locomotives: mechanics, chemicals and even complicated structures like roller coasters. 5 Reasons To Create A Facebook Fan Page AND 5 Reasons Not To: While I’ve been known to ramble on and on, I’m going to keep this one short and simple. Shocking, I know! 5 Reasons You Should Create A Facebook Fan Page: How Facebook Tracks Its Users For the first time, Facebook has revealed details about how it tracks users across the web. Through interviews with Facebook engineering director Arturo Bejar, Facebook spokesman Andrew Noyes, Facebook corporate spokesman Barry Schnitt and Facebook engineering manager Gregg Stefancik, USA Today's Byron Acohido was able to compile the most complete picture to date of how the social network keeps tabs on its 800 million users. Here is what Acohido learned: