Archive for the ‘Facebook’ Category
A Guide to Privacy of Facebook
May 20th, 2010 | Author: Tina Bryant
Privacy on Facebook
Privacy is built around a few key ideas: You should have control over what you share. It should be easy to find and connect with friends. Your privacy settings should be simple and easy to understand.
On Facebook, there are three basic levels of privacy: Friends, Friends of Friends, Everyone. You also have a set of public information, which helps your friends find and connect with you: your Name, Profile Picture, Gender, and any Connections you’ve made. This includes the friends, networks and Pages you’ve chosen to connect to. You also always have control over who can see your Connections on your profile.
The New Search War: Google vs Facebook
March 12th, 2010 | Author: Eric Bryant
It’s no coincidence that Facebook launched a new real-time search engine on the same day that it bought FriendFeed and Google announced a new infrastructure project aimed at speeding up its indexing time. Make no mistake about it: people that know search believe that there’s gold in real-time and social data, and Facebook’s blockbuster acquisition of FriendFeed was a lob squarely across Google’s bow.
Facebook has always been in a position to take a lead in real-time and social search because of the sheer amount of data the site has collected about what people are doing, the things they’re interested in, and what their social graph looks like. About 15 months ago, Paul Buchheit, the founder of FriendFeed, actually wrote that the human link data at sites like Facebook “could ultimately be more valuable than the link data from the web” that Google’s search engine is based on – someone just needs to mine it. Now he may have his chance.
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Promote your Facebook Fan Page
March 9th, 2010 | Author: Tina Bryant
Have you ever wondered, “How do I promote my Facebook fan page?” This article reveals 5 ways to use the power of Facebook to grow your fan base.
Why Do You Need a Facebook Fan Page? You may ask, “Why do I even need a Facebook fan page?” Here’s why: Facebook currently has an Alexa ranking of 2. They are the second most trafficked website next only to Google!
This means your Facebook page will be indexed faster on Google and other search engines, so if you don’t have a fan page, be sure to add one and promote it.
Here are 5 great ways to grow your Facebook fans:
Social Media & Girl Scout Cookies
February 5th, 2010 | Author: Tina Bryant
We all know about Girl Scout Cookies, but what does that have to do with Social Media? A lot for one little girl and we thought we would share a personal success story.
Our daughter is a Girl Scout and due to other commitments is not able to attend the meetings regularly so when it came time to sell cookies we had a late start… a VERY late start. We received the order forms last week, but I did not look at the date they were due until Monday, February 1. OOPS! The order forms were due Tuesday, Feb 2! We very quickly hopped on the phone and started calling family and then I thought, I wonder what would happen if I posted this on Facebook? Put social media to the test for a little girl who has a goal of selling 100 boxes of Girl Scout Cookies and the challenge of accomplishing that goal in 24 hours!
Facebook Peak Times for Business
October 20th, 2009 | Author: Tina Bryant
By now we all know that Facebook is dominating the world. It won’t be long until Facebook implants are installed at birth and Mark Zuckerberg demands a framed photo in every living room. Well, maybe that’s a little extreme. But Facebook is dominating the Web these days and for businesses, its important to know how and when to take advantage of the opportunity.