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With every social network you join you should be uploading a photo but every network needs a different sized photo. As a solopreneur you don’t have a graphics designer on staff to quickly take care of that for you and it’s really not a big enough task to put out a bid to have it done on elance or odesk. That’s where MyPictr comes in handy! This free web-based tool allows you to upload a picture and with a couple clicks of the mouse you can crop and resize any picture to the exact dimensions you need for almost 30 social networks including; Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, YouTube and Skype. I’ve found this tool useful for editing other pictures for ebooks and blog posts as well. Hope you enjoy! Happy cropping! Do you have a friend who you aren’t seeing show up on your Live Feeds? Watch this quick video to see how to change the settings to control how many friends updates are shown in your Live Feeds. Are you annoyed by knowing how many points Jane scored on Farmville or what her top 5 movies are? Its time to take control of your News Feeds. Watch this quick tutorial and discover how to hide stories from a particular application (e.g.; a quiz) or people.
In an attempt to help us manage information overload, Facebook has implemented a new way for us to view the status updates of our friends, fan pages we belong to and groups we belong to. I’ve gotten a lot of questions from my friends asking me to help make sense of this development. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NEWS FEED AND LIVE FEED The News Feed is the section that you see when you first login to Facebook. Facebook takes it upon themselves to aggregate ‘the most interesting content that your friends are posting’. Does this sound a little like Google behavior to you? Some geeky Facebook dude came up with a nifty algorithm which they say is based on a few factors:
What weights each of these factors plays is yet to be determined. I’ll keep you posted. Check Out These Other Posts for Trouble Shooting Tips: In the past Facebook Group activity has remain confined within the group making it difficult to keep lively interaction between Group members. In October 2009 Groups became more like Fan Pages and Personal Profiles. Groups now have a Wall that summaries all recent activities of people within the group. These activities will also be delivered to your News Feeds. Interaction between group members will happen not only in the group but can happen on the News Feed update as well. So the vast differences between Fan Pages and Groups are narrowing but Facebook remarks that the purpose of each is different. Groups are for fostering member-to-member collaboration, while Pages remain he best way to broadcast messages to fans if you are a business, organization, public figure or other entity. Have you written a bunch of articles and submitted them to directories AND still NOT seeing the tidal wave of daily traffic to your website that you had hoped for? Here are 7 simple steps that you can use for every article you’ve ever written and every article in your future. Take each of these steps in addition to submitting your article to the directory(s) of your choice. STEP 1 – make sure that your article is posted on your own website or blog. You’ll want to post the entire article on the blog. Don’t worry if this is outside the parameters of your normal format. PREFACE the article with a note to your readers, thanking them for their flexibility and ASK them to make a comment. STEP 2 – send out a Tweet (message from Twitter) about your new blog post and include a link directly to the post. It’s helpful if you can find a clever hook for your tweet that includes the benefits the reader will receive after reading your article. STEP 3- log into your Digg.com account SO you can ‘digg’ your blog post. Digg is a social bookmarking application that allows users to share and vote on content that they like. STEP 4 – send another ‘Tweet’. This time you’ll tweet something clever about your ‘digg’ article. ASK people to ‘Digg it’ if they like it. This will increase your Digg score and move your article up higher on the Digg.com search pages. STEP 5 – update your Facebook friends about your blogged article. Here is another opportunity to come up with a unique spin on the benefits the reader will receive from reading your article. STEP 6 – In another status post you can ask your Facebook friends to Digg the article if they like it. This request should include a link to your ‘digg article’. STEP 7 – periodically check your blog to respond and thank those that left comments on your blog. It spreads virtual goodwill to thank everyone who comments on your blog or retweets your message. Seven ways to use social media GETS more eyeballs to see your article. These are steps you can use over and over again with every article you have. YOU CAN even schedule content for Facebook status updates or Twitter on days you are on vacation. |
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