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Add Emoticons to Facebook Status Updates
Emoticons (or Smileys) have been used since the 19th century to punctuate the written word with graphics simulated by characters. On Facebook, users who put emoticons in their status updates add a little [more…]
How to Effectively Share Content on Your Business’s Facebook Page
Facebook is all about connecting and sharing, so keep that in mind when you create your business’s Facebook Page. Sharing is all about the content. Whether that content is videos, photos, comments, links [more…]
How to Monitor Feedback about Your Business on Facebook
Facebook provides you with a unique way to keep your finger on the pulse of your fans. You can listen to feedback about your business from Facebook members in a number of ways: [more…]
How to Create a Note on Facebook
Like blogs, Facebook Notes are ways of writing entries about your life, your thoughts, or your all-time favorite songs and then sharing them with your Facebook friends. The beauty of Notes lies in the [more…]
How to Add a Photo to a Facebook Note
If you want to add a little pizzazz to your Facebook Note, you can add a photo to illustrate your topic for your Facebook friends. If you choose to include photos, it requires you to add HTML tags to your [more…]
How to Ask a Question on Facebook
You can ask Questions from multiple places on Facebook. You can ask them from the Publisher in your Profile, the Publisher on your Home page, and the Publisher on your Group Home pages. To ask a basic [more…]
How to Respond to a Facebook Poll or Question
If you see a question on Facebook that piques your interest, either because you know the answer or you want to know the answer, click it to read the entire thing. This generates a Question box. [more…]
How to Send a Message on Facebook
On Facebook, you can communicate directly with friends through the New Message dialog box. A few variations of this box exist, but this is the basic one. To access it, go to your Inbox and click the New [more…]
Sending Messages to Non-Friends on Facebook
You can message a person who is on Facebook even if they're not a friend (if that person’s privacy settings allow it). This is particularly helpful when you encounter someone on Facebook whom you’d like [more…]
How to Use Facebook Chat
If you’ve got something to say to someone, and you’ve got to say it now, try sending her an instant message through Facebook Chat. Chat allows you to see which friends are online at the same time you are [more…]
How to Get Facebook Mail
Chances are if you send out a message, pretty soon you’ll get a notification in the form of a little red flag on your Home page letting you know that you’ve received a new message. When you click the notification [more…]
How to Use the Facebook Inboxes
Facebook has two inboxes: The e-Messages Inbox and the Other Inbox. The Messages Inbox is your e-mail inbox. It’s where you will want to store the bulk of your e-mail. In the middle column of the page, [more…]
How to Use Facebook Video Chat
Video Chat is a fairly new addition to Facebook, which is why you might or might not see the video camera icon at the top of each Chat window. Facebook’s Video Chat is actually powered by Skype, an Internet [more…]
How to Create and Invite People to a Facebook Event
Want to host your own Event? Facebook gives you complete control over the Event guest list. If you’re planning an Event that’s not happening for a few days or so, start with the Big Events section. If [more…]
How to Sign Up for Facebook Mobile
In many ways, using a mobile phone can augment your experience of using Facebook on the computer. You can easily add information to and get information from Facebook when you’re not physically in front [more…]
How to Use Facebook Mobile Texts
Mobile Texts are the most basic way to use Facebook on your phone. You don’t need a camera on your phone or a smartphone to get use from Mobile Texts. Using just a simple SMS [more…]
How to Upload Photos with Facebook Mobile
If you’re the mobile photo taker, Facebook Mobile Photos is for you. With mobile photos, you have no time for weeding, editing, or second thoughts. Mobile photos pave the way to instantaneous documentation [more…]
How to Change Your Facebook Timeline Cover Photo
Your Facebook timeline cover photo is the large photo that serves as a background to your Profile. People often choose visually striking photos or images that really speak to who they are and what they [more…]
How to Use Facebook’s Timeline Share Box
You’ve probably noticed the word share being used a lot on Facebook. Practically every time you’re posting something, you’re clicking a Share button. Sharing from the timeline is no different. In addition [more…]
What Online Community Managers Can Learn from Facebook Communities
Blogs, brands, businesses, and individuals all use Facebook fan or “like” pages to grow an online community. Facebook’s Share and Like buttons, as well as the ability to upload videos, drop links, and [more…]
Facebook Pages Are One Type of Online Community
Though a social network, Facebook deserves a place of its own on a list of online communities. Many businesses are now inviting customers to Like them on Facebook fan page. Friends and family see those [more…]
Landing Pages on Your Facebook and Twitter Online Communities
A landing page is a page where members have to achieve a specific goal that you have for your online community, such as a subscription or a purchase. [more…]
How to Monitor Social Networks for Online Community Feedback
As an online community manager, you’ll spend a lot of time on the social networks to see who’s talking about your brand. It’s important to have an arsenal of tools and networks ready so you can monitor [more…]
How to Use Facebook to Attract Online Community Members
When you’re building an online community, you want to be where the people are, and at this time, Facebook is the best way to reach out to a vast community. [more…]
How to Search Social Networks for Mentions of Your Online Community
The social networks are important tools for determining who is talking about your online community and your brand online. People often make off-hand comments on social networks, publishing their opinions [more…]
