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Tools To Create Beautiful Custom Facebook Fan Pages Get Rid Of Your Boring Fan Page Forever! Are you tired of having a boring fan page? Wondered how others have beautiful fan pages? Wanting to sell your products or services on Facebook? Wanting to create a form to capture information? Add video to teach, sell, inspire others. Show off your businesses Pinterest page right in Facebook. Display your latest Tweets without leaving Facebook. I’ll show you the tools you can use to create beautiful looking custom Facebook fan pages and show you a special offer created just for attendees. Enter code “Free” at registration to attend for FREE! Offer expires 11/24 at midnight! Special offer for attendees of this webinar. Don’t miss out! Registration is $9.95 after 11/24 so register today. Register Here!
Facebook testing threaded comments feature on pages Facebook is testing a new “threaded comments” feature that allows users to reply to specific comments on busy posts. Currently, comments to a posting are added at the bottom, even if they are specifically about one certain comment another Facebook user wrote. This could be especially handy on extremely busy Facebook pages hosted by celebrities or companies. You might not be able to see the proposed feature in action at this point. Facebook says it’s being tested on only 30 pages. Several comments appear below his posts. Those comments show the number of “Likes” they have received, but unlike the current comments feature, they also show how many replies they’ve received. Below the comment you can choose to “Like” or “Reply,” and if you click on the icon indicating the number of responses a comment has received, the thread expands to reveal the responses. Facebook told The Times it is testing the feature in certain locales. A Facebook spokeswoman indicated the feature is being tested on pages for specific individuals. No word on whether this feature will be rolled out to the rest of us, but if it is, the threaded comments feature could lead to more intelligent conversations on posts that receive hundreds and thousands of comments. [Update 1:36 p.m., Nov. 12: Facebook has now told The Times that the reply feature is being tested on both pages and individual users. Source: LA Times
Facebook adds new Onsite Notification setting to fan page Admin Panel. Go to your fan page > Admin Panel > Manage Notifications (under the Edit Page drop-down menu). Checking the Onsite Notifications box will give you instant notification when someone posts, likes, comments or sends you a message via your Page. It is the same type of notification you see on your personal profile (red circle with a number) under the globe icon on the top navigation blue bar. Note: I had to refresh the page after saving to verify the new settings took. Notifications are shown whether you’re using Facebook as yourself or your Fan Page. [divider] [hcshort id=”13″]
Tools To Create Beautiful Facebook Fan Pages – Webinar Wednesday Dec. 19th Noon Mountain Time Get Rid Of Your Boring Fan Page Forever! Are you tired of having a boring fan page? Wondered how others have beautiful fan pages? Wanting to sell your products or services on Facebook? Wanting to create a form to capture information? Add video to teach, sell, inspire others. Show off your businesses Pinterest page right in Facebook. Display your latest Tweets without leaving Facebook. Register today for just $8.95! Special offer for attendees of this webinar. Don’t miss out! Note: If you have a discount code please enter that at registration. I’ll show you the tools you can use to create awesome looking fan pages and show you a special offer created just for attendees. Just some of what you’ll learn… Learn about tools to sell product and services on Facebook Learn how to add Google+, Twitter and Pinterest to your fan page Learn how to display PDF’s on your fan page Learn how to display your websites pages on your fan page Plus more! Register today for just $8.95! Special offer for attendees of this webinar. Don’t miss out! Note: If you have a discount code please enter that at registration.
Are you confused at what size image you should use for your profile photo on Pinterest? How about your cover photos for your fan page on Facebook? The image you choose to use for your fan page or personal profile is important. Especially when it comes to your brand and how you want your business portrayed on social media. Luna Metrics put together this great infographic cheat-sheet to show you what image size you need for each social media platform. The infographic can be printed for a very informative guide to image dimensions on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Pinterest (Source: Luna Metrics.) [divider] [hcshort id=”13″]
Pinterest is the latest hot social media site and it is creating a lot of buzz. Its growth has been nothing short of phenomenal. PinView is a new app for Facebook that allows its users to have a Pinterest like view of their Timeline, Wall, Friends, Photos and Videos. Install the PinView app for Facebook to browse Facebook like Pinterest by going to https://apps.facebook.com/pinviewer. PinView view of Facebook Timeline Moving PinView in your Favorites Menu You can add the app to your menu favorites so you can toggle back and forth between regular Facebook or the PinView view of your Facebook. Just click on the pencil icon and select “Add to Favorites”. Then once in your favorites you can click on the pencil icon again and this time select rearrange. Three bars will appear to the right of your menu item. Hoover over the item then drag and drop according to where you want PinView in your menu. Click “Done” at the bottom of your favorites to lock the menu. PinView in Favorites Menu PinView Menu The default view in PinView is your Timeline or what they refer to as the “Pin View”. Clicking on the icons on the menu will take you to each of the views. Hoover over the buttons and click to move to another view. The next button after the “P” is your wall view and then friends, photos and video. It only takes a few seconds for the view to load on your screen. Search for a Persons The last box to the right of the menu buttons allows you to search for a specific person on Facebook. Just type in their name and hit enter to get a view of the results. Have you installed the app yet? Do you think Facebook should give its users this options? Leave a comment below to start the discussion.
Updating your pages to the new Timeline for Fan Pages? Wondering what image size to use? What is the size of the profile picture in Facebook? With the new Timeline for Pages some new sizes have been added and older ones modified. Here’s a list of those dimensions to help you out when making changes to your page or advertising on Facebook. Cover Photo for Timeline This is the big picture (also known as Cover Photo) for Facebook’s Timeline. Width: 851px Height: 315px Facebook Page Width The usable area (custom tabs) of your brands Facebook page Width: 810 px Height: Unlimited This is the maximum size of the image you can upload. Width: 2048px Height: 2048px Application icons for Timeline view These are the icons that are displayed on a fan page that has Facebook Timeline enabled. If your picture exceeds these limits, your icon will be resized and converted. Width: 75px Height: 75px Maximum file size: 5MB Facebook Status Update Status update length: 63,206 characters Comment length: unlimited Video The maximum file size of video you can upload Size: 1024MB Length: 20 minutes Facebook application favicon size This is the tiny icon that is being displayed on the left hand side of your news feed, where the applications that you use are. Width: 16px Height: 16px Facebook milestone picture size This is the size you use for milestone pictures such as company’s foundation date. Width: 843 pixels Height: 403 pixels Profile picture for Timeline pages Profile pictures sizes were recently updated for timeline. The new width and height are 180 px which will be automatically scaled down to following: Width: 32px Height: 32px Please Note: It is important to choose a picture that can be scaled down as the profile pictures that are displayed on Timeline posts are really small. Best practice is to choose your business logo. Thumbnail When Sharing The image that is displayed next to the link when you click like or share something. Width: 90px Height: 90px Pictures displayed in Facebook This is the maximum size of the image as shown in slide show or album. Width: 960px Height: 720px Facebook Ads Picture in the ad Width: 110px Height: 80px Size: 5MB Text in ad Header: 25 characters Body copy: 135 characters [divider] [hcshort id=”13″]
Adding A Facebook Event To Your Google Calendar and iCal In my last post and Facebook Tip – Adding A Facebook Event To Outlook on YouTube, I showed you how to add a Facebook Event to your Outlook Calendar. It is a fairly easy process once you do it a few times. If you don’t have Outlook you can still add a Facebook Event to your favorite calendar such as Google Calendar and Apple’s iCal. Follow the same instructions I laid out in Adding A Facebook Event To Your Outlook Calendar and download the .ics file to your desktop. Locate the file you have downloaded and follow the instructions I’ve listed below depending on the calendar you use. Google Calendar Import events from iCalendar or CSV files To import events from iCalendar or CSV files, just follow these steps: Click the down-arrow next to Other calendars Select Import calendar Click Choose file and find the file that contains your events, then click Open. Select the Google Calendar where you’d like to import events, then click Import. Apple iCal Exporting and importing iCal information If you want to move a copy of all the events on one calendar to a calendar on another computer, you can export the calendar information, and then import it into iCal on the other computer. You might want to do this if you want to archive a calendar or if you want to edit the calendar on another computer. To transfer calendar information between computers, do one of the following: â– To export the events on a calendar, select the name of the calendar in the Calendars list, and then choose File > Export. The events are exported as a “.ics” file. â– To import calendar events, choose File > Import, locate the calendar (.ics file) you want to import, and then choose the calendar you want to add the events to. You can also drag a .ics file from your desktop to iCal. If you follow the steps above your Facebook Event will be saved to your favorite calendar so you won’t miss that next Facebook Event. If you are using another calendar application check that calendar’s Help menu for information on importing .ics files or search Google for information.
Adding A Facebook Event To Your Outlook Calendar Have you ever confirmed yourself for an event posted on Facebook but forgot to to attend or add it to your calendar? There is actually a real easy way to add any Facebook Event to your Outlook Calendar. In the video I explain how it is done with Outlook. But you can also download the information for the event and then import it into Google Calendar. When you are looking at your Facebook Profile page there are 2 ways you can view events. One is on the left-hand menu from the Events link and the right-hand side of the page you should see the Birthdays of your friends and and how many events you have in the current week. Click on the link on the left-hand side to see all your upcoming events and birthdays. If there is a number next to the link it means you have new events you can join. You can “Join” or “Decline” to the right the event information or clicking the event title will give you more information on that event. If you scroll to the bottom of your events list page you’ll see links to view past events, declined events, birthdays and a link to export all events to your calendar. You can export all events if you want. However I recommend you only export the events you plan to attend. Lets scroll back up to the top of your events page and look at an event. You have to “Join” an event or be a “Maybe” in order to “Export Event” to your calendar. Once you do that the button will change to “Going” and allow you to change it to maybe or not going. Notice the button to the left of the “Going” button below. Here is where you can “Share Event” with your other friends or “Export Event” to your calendar. Pick “Export Event” to start the export process to your Outlook Calendar. It should only take a few moments for the .ics file to download to your PC. If you click on the file it will launch Outlook so you can save the event. You can also save this file to your PC and then import it into your calendar. Most calendars will have information on how to do that. Notice how the information from the Facebook event is carried over to Outlook. Here is where you can make any need changes, add a reminder, set a category and then save the event to your calendar. It is pretty easy to do after you understand the process and you will never miss an important event with your social media friends. I will talk about how to import your Facebook events into Google Calendar in a few days. Please feel free to leave a comment below or let me know if you have any questions.