Facebook makes great birthdays

Facebook makes great birthdays

What did we do for birthdays before Facebook? We mailed cards through snail mail to a select group of family and friends for their birthday. But with the advent of Facebook, it’s so easy to: 1. Remember when it’s someone’s birthday, or rather, be reminded, and 2. Wish them a happy birthday. Those Facebook birthday [...]

Linking Facebook Pages to Twitter

Linking Facebook Pages to Twitter

I spent some time this morning connecting my many Facebook Pages to Twitter. You do so by visiting this page within Facebook. Why? If you’re publishing items on Facebook and want to be sure your Twitter followers can also view them, then connecting the two platforms is helpful. I’ll bet you’ll find that you have [...]

Creating a Facebook fan page for business

Creating a Facebook fan page for business

Many people ask what the difference is between a Facebook group and fan page. To compare features and potential uses of each I recommend this article on Mashable: Facebook Pages vs Facebook Groups: What’s the Difference? I use fan pages because it’s like a website with its own vanity URL that allows your friends to [...]

How to receive notifications when someone posts to your Facebook fan page

How to receive notifications when someone posts to your Facebook fan page

Today during my Ragan PR Daily webinar (#ragan17) the question was raised: How can we receive an email notification when someone posts a comment on our Facebook fan page? I thought there was a setting where you edit the fan page for notifications, but, upon further research, it appears there is not. Despite repeated requests [...]

3 predictions for 2010

3 predictions for 2010

What’s the next Twitter? The traditional media’s social media darling of 2009 has to be Twitter. Sure, Facebook has seen staggering growth in adoption this year, but so has Twitter. And until this year, many people were still debating the usefulness of a publicly available and searchable type of global instant messaging conversation (that’s my [...]

Facebook versus MySpace

Many of this blog’s readers may be familiar with the rivalry between MySpace and Facebook. You may or may not know that MySpace has historically led in U.S. site visitors and page views. But there’s an upset in the works. In May Facebook exceeded MySpace’s numbers for unique visitor count. Last month Facebook reached 77 [...]

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