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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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Social Media Training Guide [INFOGRAPHIC]

Internal resources or farm it out. It is a big question these days as more companies are looking to take advantage of social media. Careful. It is not so easy as you think. This infographic from Mindflash can help guide you. Use the socialmedia tag to your right to find more articles to help you figure our your next steps
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A Lesson in Tweet Reach

Yesterday in the article Social Media Metrics I talked about the best type of metrics for tweeting. One of the things I like to do with this blog is tweet the posts to my followers. Using the simple hashtags for the relevant information of #facebook and #twitter and also mentioning the source of the original information that formulated my article
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Is Your CEO Socially Engaged? [INFOGRAPHIC]

As much as stats will shout out the value of social media, sometimes it still confounds me as to those who see it as only a waste of time where people only talk about what they ate for breakfast. Sort of like how everyone thought the Internet was for geeks and porn and would never be good for anything else
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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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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.

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Facebook Pages Timeline Migration Guide

On March 30, 2012 all Facebook pages will automatically get the new timeline design. Don’t Panic. There is time. First off, if you are having a good return on your page investment, carry on as usual. The addition of the timeline gives a few new items, takes some others away, but in general pulls together a lot of changes in
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Q & A: How will the country’s copyright laws affect Canadians?

This article first appeared in Global News : Global Edmonton TORONTO – On Jan. 19, Canadians watched in awe as key players in the digital world – Wikipedia, Wired, WordPress and Mozilla to name a few – orchestrated what has been dubbed the “largest protest in history.” The tech companies teamed up in an effort to raise awareness about two
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Taking a Look at Facebook Events

By starting an event, you’re positioning yourself as a leader and an expert, which is great for your personal brand. You can use it to promote almost anything; it only needs to be something related to a specific date and a location. It doesn’t have to be a traditional event though. You can use it to promote a product launch,
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A Response to Toews’ Bill C-30 by Rick Mercer

The state has no business in the hard drives of the Nation. Visit http://StopSpying.ca to oppose warrantless online spying (Bill C-30).