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Facebook Upgrades Photoviewer

Last week, Facebook announced updates to their photo viewer, including high-resolution photos and fullscreen viewing. High-Resolution Photos Now the photo viewer will automatically display photos in the highest resolution possible. On a large display, this can be up to 4 times bigger than before. Fullscreen View Now you can expand the photo viewer to take up your entire computer screen.
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Over 50 Set Using more Social Media in Halifax Study. Quell Surprise?

The main question is, is the older demographic using Facebook more than before, or it is just the last demographic to saturate itself with the use of social media. A recent study in the Halifax edition of Metro somewhat answers that. And somewhat doesn’t. From Metro Halifax [March 23, 2012] The faces on Facebook appear to be getting older. According
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Facebook Image Measurements

Just a simple guide to the image sizes for use on your Facebook Page. See the tag cloud for more specific help on implementing a Page App or creating a Page. Profile Photo Width: 180px Height: 180px Cover Photo Width: 851px Height: 315px Status Update Status update length: 63,206 characters Comment length: unlimited Page App Icons Width: 111px Height: 74px
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Optimization of Facebook Pages for Search Engines

Organic search results are listings on search engine results pages that appear because of their relevance to the search terms, as opposed to their being advertisements. In contrast, non-organic search results may include pay per click advertising. Unlike a website, we do not have full control over the optimization for search engine ranking on Facebook, however there is some things
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Facebook Monster Ads Motivated by IPO?

Until now, when you were not logged into Facebook and went to the home, you got a pretty straightforward login box with information on Facebook (what it is etc) or the new timeline.   Now with pretty much the entire English speaking world knowing WTF Facebook is – even if they are not using it or on it – and
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Tracking your Friend Losses

Ever wondered who recently unfriended you? If you have under 100 friends on Facebook then you can probably guess. But as we start to add more people to our friend list who we may have met (if at all) only once and use our friend list as more of a network for our personal brand channel on Facebook, it is
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Social Media Metrics

Analytical site Social Bakers recently gave recommendations on what metrics are important for social media monitoring. They put it forth that you should be following these: FANS – Total number of fans ENGAGEMENT RATE – The amount of people on average interacting with your content RESPONSE RATE/TIME – Response rate and time to your fans posts, very critical for reactive engagement GROWTH – Momentum
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Make a new tab with a native Facebook App

Note that in 2014, these app tabs have left the building. Facebook seems to want to frustrate the business and marketing sector every year or so. This is a good video to give you some over site.  This is a republished article that has had major changes to it because of the removal of profile pages for apps which was
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Too Many Posts to Your Timeline Creates Havoc to Like

Yesterday I received a lot of posts on my Facebook wall as it was my birthday. What the problem was, was that I could not readily access to see who was posting, or to like each post because of the volume. This got me thinking of how this really is a limitation for someone who might have upwards to 5000
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Page Design Explained at fMC 2012

Blais DiPersia, Product Designer at Facebook explains some of the nuances of Facebook’s design with regard to Pages with the new Timeline.