In continuing with my series of quick social media tips (check out 5 tips for LinkedIn) I'm covering some tips for business use of Facebook here. I've actually written about some of these tips in great detail before, but this can act as a quick primer for
Chase, the financial services conglomerate, started a Facebook campaign two weeks ago, asking users to tell it how to donate $5 million to charity. To do so, it had Context Optional build it a full-featured application, Chase Community Giving. The app has
Facebook has been building out its Pages product for businesses, brands, and celebrities since last year - and as the site has boomed to well over 300 million people, Pages have become an increasingly important way for any organization to reach users. Sen
Three weeks ago, Facebook announced significant updates to its promo/sweepstakes policies for Facebook Pages that have very practical impact for marketers on Facebook. For a deeper dive on the rule changes, see our analysis. But essentially, the new rules
I read a very helpful blog post at Hubspot on getting what we call "link love" (backlinks to your website) from Facebook links. Typically, when you add links in Facebook or other social media websites, the HREF tag includes the attribute "rel='nofollow'"
In 2007, Facebook introduced a new feature called "Facebook Pages", which are user profiles for brands (companies, organizations, and celebrities). Facebook Pages have the look and feel of personal pages but offer additional features such as the ability t
Sysomos had put together an excellent report on Twitter users in June 2009. Now, Sysomos has followed up with an equally useful report on Facebook pages: Inside Facebook Pages.
Here are some FBML examples that I took from one of the pages I admin.
This is THE place to go if you want the real Facebook Style codes.
Some of them I take from there and tweak it. But for those of you who just want to add a image link to your website
Legistalker combs a variety of news, social networking, and government sites to pool information about members of the U.S. Congress. Searching for a Senator or Representative will return mentions of that individual in the media, Twitter updates, YouTube v