Facebook Social Plugins: Why You Should Add Them Now
Facebook has been on a mission to challenge Google and go beyond what many thought impossible in generating more traffic than any other web property on the Internet. With its latest plugins, Facebook may be well on its way. Facebook’s social plugins bring a whole new dimension to promoting content on Facebook. In just a matter of few days, thousands of websites have already implemented Facebook social plugins. Considering that implementing these tools takes only a few minutes, there is no reason not to try.
Facebook Like Button is already getting a lot of love from bloggers. It gives Facebook users an easy way to give some love to articles that they like the most. For bloggers, it’s a win win situation. The plugin brings Facebook to their community and helps spread the word around their top blog posts. The Recommendations plugin is another exciting tool that makes it easier for your Facebook visitors to find out about your top posts.
Add Your Website To Facebook Tabs with Tabsite
Facebook is one of the most popular social networking sites on the market and has enabled many developers to bring their innovative ideas to the market as well. Facebook is known for tweaking its design all the time, but one thing that remains constant is your Facebook pages and tabs. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could add your website to your Facebook page or personal page without having to know any HTML? Well, there is a service for that. TabSite is an innovative tab builder for Facebook that enables you to give your Facebook page or profile a whole new look by adding a site to Facebook in form of a tab.
Facebook Adding Status Advertising to Page?
A whole lot of people spend hours each day on Facebook updating their status and viewing other people’s status. Facebook is still growing and holds a lot of promise for marketers and businesses. It’s not a finished product by any means. Facebook’s Advertising platform has gone through many changes in the past few months, and it’s become another venue for marketers to take advantage of. Now it seems Facebook is testing status advertising. Essentially, it’s trying to make it easier for Facebook page owners to promote their top status updates and get more action going on their pages.
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Web Pro News has discovered that some Facebook page owners are seeing the “promote” feature show up next to their status updates. The process seems to be pretty straight forward. Once you click on the promote link, you are going to have to go through a wizard, which will include you approving how much money you want to spend promoting your page and who you want to show it to. From there, you can expect traffic to flow to your pages.
Share Your Screen Casts on Twitter with ScreenJelly
Have you ever wanted to share a quick video tip with your Twitter or Facebook followers? You can always do what other people have been doing for years. You can upload your video to your server or YouTube and then share the link with your followers. Or you can use Screenjelly. Screenjelly is an innovative service that lets you create screen-casts and share them with your Twitter followers or via e-mail easily. Screenjelly allows you to capture your screen, add your own audio, and upload your video in a flash. Can’t get easier than that.
All you have to do is start the web application and start talking! The software will automatically capture your screen, and you can stop the recording when you prefer. And since this is not a desktop application, it’s not really dependent on your operating system. So you can capture your screen on Vista, Windows 7, or Mac OS.
Sharing video snippets with your followers and friends is a great way to provide more value to them and get them more engaged. With Screenjelly, you can do it all easily without having to spend hundreds of dollars on Camtasia or Captivate. And you don’t have to worry about converting videos or uploading them by hand. Talk about making things super easy.
LinkedIn or FaceBook?
Which challen do you use? Both LinkedIn and FaceBook are excellent avenues for networking. But I am interested to know which one do you like the best and for what purpose you are using it. Networking, dating, partnerships, … Please share your comments here.
FaceBook Means Business
So what’s wrong with having the ability to poke your friends with a knife (digital knife)? No harm no foul, right? Wrong! Facebook showed today that they mean business as they killed an application that allowed users to superpoke their friends with a knife. I am not going to argue whether FaceBook is right or wrong here. There is a good lesson here for all of us to learn. Social networks are public places, and whatever you do there can be seen by employers, colleagues, and your enemies. So if you are a politician and are having an affair, you don’t change your marital status to complicated from married as you sure going to get some coverage for doing that. That’s an extreme example but do not use Facebook to:
You may try to hide your identity and do the above things, but if a connection is found between you and these comments, you can pretty much kiss your future goodbye. And you can be prosecuted to the full extend of law for harassing others on the Internet, so don’t think for a second that FaceBook is a playground that anything goes. Play it safe and avoid nasty surprises.
