Social Media Coaching Center

Reader Question- On Facebook, Use the Wall as the Homepage or Boxes?

A reader wrote in to ask which was better on a Facebook Fan page.

Use the wall as the homepage?
Create a custom look using boxes amd FBML?

Facebook fan pages are really mini-websites where a brand, product or individual can create community around themselves, get some feedback and hopefully input from fans and take advantage [...]

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Spiffing Up Your Blogger Blog With Gadgets

Blogger blogs can have almost as much fun as Wordpress ones when you add some “Gadgets” (Google’s answer to widgets in Wordpress). You can bring your Twitter feed into the sidebar, add games applications and other tools. There are actually quite a few both third-party and Blogger gadgets. Here’s a quick tutorial to show [...]

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Spicing Up Your Facebook Fan Page

Customizing your Facebook Fan Page can really help strengthen your marketing and branding efforts. You’ve probably seen other Fan Pages that seem to have some extra customized tabs or added boxes for signing up for newsletters. This is usually the result of adding the Static FMBL application and inputting a bit of HTML code. FBML [...]

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FTC Blogging Laws

Whether you are an amateur blogger or a professional blogging for a company you need to clearly understand the FTC’s rules for bloggers or suffer the consequences.Like up to $11,000 in fines! Scary? Well it’s supposed to be, but quite honestly if you abide by good old common sense and treat people [...]

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Making the Most of Your Facebook Profile Picture

Facebook profile pictures on either your personal profile or on your Fan Page are typically one of the few items a Facebook user will see first. This means it can be prime page real estate for making a first impression on the person who visits your profile or your Fan Page. If you’ve ever uploaded [...]

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Twitter Background Design Template

Look at custom Twitter backgrounds and you’ll see there are a lot of similarities in what people do. You can only be so creative with a Twitter background because you are slightly limited by the design constraints of the Twitter content layout. Look at the basic Twitter page design At the [...]

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Get More Facebook Fans

If you build it, will they come? Maybe. You have your Facebook page all set up and a few people have become fans but you would surely like to continue growing your fan base. The following video tutorial will provide you with a few tips for helping you get more fans on your Facebook fan [...]

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Screensharing and Webinars with DimDim

DimDim is one of several apps that will allow you to quickly pull together a meeting online and even share your screen to demonstrate a technique, show off a website or work through a new product feature. The free version hosts up to 20 people so you can easily create a webinar for free. In [...]

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Protecting Your Privacy on Facebook

Privacy on the internet has long been a concern. With the rise of social networking and online sharing, protecting which data and information you choose to share and make available to your networks becomes even more important. There have been significant concerns raised recently about privacy on social networks and how social networks need help [...]

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