How to Change Your Facebook Page Name
You’re feeling pretty good about your presence on facebook. You’ve set up a page for your business, organization, or group. You’ve promoted it sufficiently and even have a following. Then you notice that you misspelled your name. Or didn’t capitalize it properly. Or it’s been a couple months and you’re [...]
Social Media Disclosure Now Legally Required in UK & California
Twice in the past four months my wife has found out close family members have died through facebook. No, not due to excessive status updating, rather that’s where she first heard the news. Maybe this is just part of modern life with large extended families, but it might be an [...]
How to Link to Individual Facebook Posts / Updates
Wall posts or status updates or whatever you want to call them, have you ever wanted to link to individual facebook posts, but couldn’t figure out how? Well, neither could I until I stumbled upon one today. There may have been some easy solution to this for years (* see [...]
Jolly Old St. Zuck Releases New Facebook Layout Christmas Eve
After getting the kiddos to bed for a nap, I logged into facebook today to see a note, asking if I wanted to try their new layout. Why, sure, thanks for asking. Funny – it didn’t have some of the features from the version they leaked out last week. I [...]
Facebook Page – Places Page Decoupling No Longer Permanent
Not too long ago, facebook launched facebook places in an attempt to bust into the local-mobile space. My favorite part of this offering is how they straight up stole logo elements from Google Places (along with the name, not that it’s that original) and foursquare: One of the things they [...]
Leaked: What the Facebook Design Changes Really Contain – Updated
(Scroll to the bottom for updates) Earlier today, I was checking on our facebook page and did a refresh when everything changed. Thinking they had officially launched their new design changes, I grabbed a couple screenshots and wrote up a post about what I liked about the changes for facebook [...]
Thumbs Up to Facebook Page Changes – Jolly Old St. Zuck Delivers Early
Update: So it turns out Facebook goofed, and accidentally leaked their new user interface before pulling the site down and reverting back. Check out pictures of the leaked changes to Facebook pages. You know, it’s kind of nice when you make public suggestions for a company and then they implement [...]
Why Remnant Banner Advertising? Because of Free Brand Exposure
In a massive understatement, I can be pretty hard-headed. Sometimes I need to get smacked in the head hard a few times to get the message…perhaps with a 2×4 by a true American hero. Yesterday, a partner invited me to speak with one of his clients who was concerned he [...]
6 Must-Adds to Facebook Pages: My Holiday Wishlist
February 10 Update: Even more points crossed off – see below. With the holidays upon us, I figured it was time to reach out to jolly old St. Zuck (Mark Markle sounded a little too Funky Bunch-ish) with my facebook pages wish list on behalf of business owners. I don’t [...]
How Social Signals Influences SEO in Google & Bing
Danny Sullivan has done a splendid summing up of the effect of Twitter and Facebook on your average search engine rankings. He even managed to snag the following interview with both Google and Bing about it all: 1) If an article is retweeted or referenced much in Twitter, do you [...]
Charleston, WV Social Media Business Forum April 1 – No Foolin’
It’s official: West Virginia’s preeminent business newspaper will be hosting a new forum on April 1 of next year: its Social Media Business Forum. I’ll post more about this as I receive details about the rest of the program and how you can register, but there’s a great line-up of [...]
How to Set an Easy to Remember Facebook URL: Update
This next song’s dedicated to all you small businesses out there who are looking to more effectively use social media and in particular facebook. Hold up your lighters and sing along if you know the words. Whoa – sorry, just woke up from one of my dreams where I’m the [...]
Google Hotpot: Google Getting More Personalized, More Local
Last night – perhaps while you were dreaming about sugarplum fairies – Google did a soft launch of Hotpot. It’s Google’s offering of personalized recommendations for local businesses based on a rating system and your network of friends. Right now, it doesn’t seem to offer anything different than many of [...]
FOUND! GOOGLE ADWORDS AUDIT
