If you’d like to share an article with Facebook friends or fans, but you don’t like the title or description, you can rename it. You can change the title and description while posting an article to your Facebook wall. First, click “Link” above your Facebook’s “What’s on your mind?” box. Copy and paste the link […]
Category Archives: Facebook
One Minute Tip: Follow Your Favorite Facebook Business Pages
Have you “liked” too many Facebook business pages and now you can’t see posts from your favorite pages because of all the other Facebook fan pages’ posts? You can set your favorite Facebook fan pages as “featured likes” on your own biz page to make it easy to follow your favorite Facebook pages. Featured Likes […]
One Minute Google+ Tip: Expand Your Google Plus Circles
Do you want to expand your Google Plus circles? Get more people to circle you on Google+? Here’s a one-minute tip that also works for Facebook. Find 5 or so people and/or G+ business pages you like to follow who have lots of G+ users commenting on their posts. Start commenting on those […]
One Minute Facebook Tip: List Yourself as the Owner of Your Business Page
To help increase your personal profile visibility on your Facebook biz page, so everyone remembers that it’s you who own your fan page, follow these 5 easy steps: 1. From your Facebook biz page, not your personal profile, click on “Edit Page.” 2. Next, on the left of the settings page, click on “Featured.” 3. […]
“Do-It-Yourself” Facebook Notifications
Have you noticed that Facebook isn’t sending certain notifications? During the past several weeks I have not been getting notifications when I comment on others’ posts. In Touch Promotions engages with other pages; that is, we like and comment on other pages’ posts. Sometimes I don’t need a notification when a page responds to one of my […]
Facebook’s Major Redesign: What Does It Mean for Your Business?
Facebook introduced a few changes over the last couple of weeks, including: “Subscribe;” Share features (public, friends, custom); new Update Status tool; Fine Tuning your news feed; adding New Lists for us (thank you very much); view who is sharing your posts; Smart Lists; and a “Needs Review” function. (Click here to see a photo […]
Facebook Upgrades: A Photo Album
Here are the changes Facebook made during the last two weeks in August, 2011 and the first couple of weeks in September 2011. Today we heard these changes are a mere foreshadow of a complete Facebook overhaul. We look at the upgrades here to get a glimpse of what’s ahead. The “Inline Privacy Control” change […]
Facebook Foible a Blessing in Disguise
Facebook had some problems this weekend. Many of us couldn’t see more than one page in our news feeds. I got this message: “This stream is unavailable at this time. Please try again soon.” With all the work business pages have to do to keep up with our social media marketing, I wondered what to […]
UnIntended Consequences
Facebook’s New Feature Erases Profile Info Facebook announced a new function last week that at first excited many of us e-consultants. Clients who had set up their Facebook business pages as personal profiles approached us over the years asking how to change their business pages from a personal profile to an official business page. At […]
Japan’s Great Loss and Mashable’s Great Faux Pas
Wow, so far March has been quite a month of surprise and tragedy. We’re living through one of the most catastrophic events we’ve experienced in our lifetime. The 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami, aftershocks and nuclear plant meltdown that hit Japan March 11th are changing our world, forcing many of us to put our localized […]