Archive for the Facebook Tag

Art Feature - Look alike

Ho Hum – It’s Doppelgänger Week Again

Doppelgänger Week has it’s origins on Facebook in 2010, when a fellow named Bob Patel, who was told he was strikingly familiar to Tom Selleck, declared Doppelgänger Week to be the first week of February. I think this might be more of a lore than a fact as being the first, as Mashable reported in 2009 that Coke Zero had a Facebook
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Facebook Changes Photo and Comments Display

Again without warning, Facebook changed. This time for the better. Photos and comments are now side by side this morning. With larger monitors it makes sense and I like the non scrolling deal.

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Millenials and Facebook.

An interesting rant from a young Australian about Friending on Facebook. Worth a watch for those who are targeting this demographic and get a bit of insight into the first digital kids as they enter their 20s.

Dog in the Tub

Separating your Circles of Friends

These days it would not be a surprise to anyone if you have more than two or three accounts on a social network. Now the juggle comes in how to manage those different networks and how to keep grandma and your new beau separated. For Facebook, it is a little more of a pain as you have to subscribe the
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Posting a Link without an Ugly URL

All too often in Facebook I see posts as the following format.   There is wasted opportunity by posting in this manner and also the inclusion of the URL is just plain ugly. Facebook has not made it easy to figure out, but you can make this a lot better.  Not to mention I don’t even see the post title
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Facebook, Yahoo! and Google Run afoul of Indian Ignorance

This week an Indian court has threatened to block sites with “offensive and objectionable” content, however they seem to be targeting Facebook, Yahoo and Google. I wonder if the folks over there even get what the web is. Justice Suresh Kai said that the three sites need to “develop a mechanism to keep a check and remove offensive and objectionable
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The Importance of Page Status Updates

Update your status at least daily.  What is your company doing or working on?  Ask your fans a question or if they need help with something specific.  The status updates feed into your fans Facebook home page and helps you to create awareness by keeping you or your company / product name in front of them. Ask questions; create a
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Featured Edit

Did Facebook make Page Creators a Featured Owner by Default?

Are you an admin of a Facebook page? I manage a few, and all of them have other admins, however I am the one who set them up. I have noticed this week that I have become the featured admin on all of the pages I set up. I had to edit the pages so that I would not appear.
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When are Marketers Posting

Infographic: When to Post

ArgyleSocial release a new infographic that details when it is a good time to post and creat the best engagement. No suprise – if you are on Facebook and/or Twitter and looking to reach other businesses – do it during the work week. When you are looking to reach consumers at home, reach them when they are not at the
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