I bet you’re seeing a lot of hubbub about Instagram’s updated Terms of Service. Here are the basics you should be concerned about: Instagram can share your username, profile pic, and your pictures. Instagram can also share your actions (Likes, Shares, comments, etc.) with advertisers and they don’t have to pay you. Underage users aren’t [...]
Instagram Changes Terms of Service — What Will You Do?
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Is Facebook Sharing Your Secret Group Updates? No, I Don’t Think So (Part 2)
Earlier this week I wrote about how I thought Facebook could be sharing your updates in secret groups via widgets on third-party sites. After a little more digging, I’m revising my original hypothesis. I don’t think Facebook is sharing your updates to secret groups; I think this issue has to do with how ABC is [...]
Is Facebook Sharing Updates From Secret Groups?
I received an email today that has me concerned about Facebook, how Facebook shares our information, and what our expectations of privacy are. My friend received a screenshot from another friend that showed her in the Facebook widget on an ABC news page. I went to the URL in the screenshot and found the same [...]
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Tips to Get More Shares on Facebook
Facebook engagement can be a tricky thing. If you want high clicks, comments, and shares you should consider what kinds of posts will resonate with your audience, what time of day to post, and what day of week to post. I attended Digtial Summit last week and heard Matt Peters (@fracked) of Pandemic Labs (@pandemiclabs) [...]
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How Will Facebook’s Timeline for Fan Pages Really Impact Engagement?
I’ve been busy writing Facebook All-In-One for Dummies. With the rollout of the new Timeline design for Facebook Fan Pages, I’ve been scrambling to rewrite several chapters to reflect those changes. To do that, I’ve been watching video, reading articles, watching how brands are implementing Timeline, and so on. It’s pretty cool. But here’s the [...]
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Migrate Your Business from a Profile to Page on Facebook
Facebook has very specific terms of service regarding how businesses interact on their platform. For instance, it’s required that businesses who want a presence on Facebook create a Facebook fan page (also called a business page). Unfortunately, not all businesses are aware of this rule and may have inadvertently created a Facebook profile for their [...]
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Facebook’s Timeline Changes Everything
Earlier this week I was initially thrown by the new News Feed elements Facebook rolled out. I was mostly annoyed about the new lists because I liked the way I did my own lists. But I spent an hour or two getting to know the new interface on Wednesday night. That, along with the explanations [...]
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Blogging Basics 101′s Facebook Fan Page
Have you stopped by my new digs on Facebook? Because I assure you the new page is fancy and you won’t want to miss it. We have 148 fans so far (or Likes if we go with the new Facebook lingo, but really? I like the word “fans” better than “likers”, don’t you?). We’d love [...]
Social Media Glossary
Social media is how we connect with each other — and with companies and brands — online. These days every marketing plan includes social media; to ignore it would be to ignore a significant portion of your audience. But what is social media? How do you use it? Where do you start? The first step [...]
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Google Buzz: Is It a Privacy #FAIL or The Next Best Social Media Tool?
In the past few months Google has been trying to secure their spot not just as the go-to search engine of choice, but a real player in social media. Google Wave and the Google Nexus One phone were cool options to the norm and just last week Google unveiled yet another new social media tool: [...]
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