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Segmenting the Social Within Us [INFOGRAPHIC]

  I always likened twitter to a formal get together in your living room with your financial advisor and Facebook to the kitchen. I would add that for LinkedIn, think of it as a long running self made marketing plan for your future employer to peruse. As for Google+? Come on, do you ever check that account? Expert finder resource
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Sort Your Facebook Page Admins

Managing your Facebook page also entails managing those who work on it. When you add someone, you can assign them one of five different roles, however Facebook does a poor job with letting you know what each is. You have to assign each different role to find out what each is, but of course you can’t really get a handle
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Facebook Helps Big Brands Build Big Momentum [INFOGRAPHIC]

This recent infographic from Socialbakers is pretty much summed up by their description: “New Socialbakers Data Proves Facebook Helps Big Brands Build Big Momentum in Emerging Markets” Before you glaze over at another infographic, it is worth your time to look at some of the math used at the bottom. Too much is done these days in terms of numbers
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“Let’s hurl some acid at those female democratic Senators…”

  Another day, another blundering fool shooting himself in the foot by exposing his dark side – and ignorance of the fact that social media is not the place for private thoughts on advocating violence against women. Official spokesman for Rep. Nan Hayworth’s (R-NY) re-election campaign Jay Townsend is not helping his party friends these days when he espoused “Let’s
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Facebook Brand Fans are Brand Advocates

I think you would agree that Facebook Fans of brand pages are strong advocates, or ones who help you spread your message. Now a new study by Forrester Research confirms that. Brand engagement is a driver of loyalty and purchase for companies, and Facebook is a great channel for advocates to share brand experiences with others. Facebook therefore should be
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Take Advantage of your Page App Icons

  Much ado about the Timeline and integrating the profile image to work with the cover photo has been made. But what about your app icons? Each app you make can have it’s own thumbnail image and associated small icon. While you cannot move where the Photos are, you can manage the page so that the last image up is
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See all the people you care about: Close Friends

  Another development in Facebook is the ability to star those who are close to you to ensure you get all of their posts. This is another step for Facebook to give you tighter integration with your friends of relevance and also to strengthen what Facebook knows about you. The more data that Facebook is able to have on you,
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July 5 Breaking Changes on Facebook

Have you noticed in the advanced section of your Facebook apps that there is a couple of radio buttons under “migrations” for ‘Breaking Changes’? Below is the information that you should be aware of with regard to July. The August 2012 are not so critical if you enact the July changes. You best do that now – time is a
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Why is Facebook’s Valuation so High?

As we get closer to the IPO for Facebook, many are wondering if the valuation is too high. Indeed with a lot of people seeing this as a must have stock, it may be pushed high, however lets look at the numbers. In six short years, the company has come to amass almost 1,000,000,000 users. I think it is important
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Cleaning Out Facebook Messages

  I messaged a friend the other day and did not have a lot of time to do so. The sheer volume of old messages meant a lot of scrolling. Damn can’t I just make the new ones appear on the top? Anyway, I found that you can delete old posts. I think it is best to do it with
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