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Facebook Phonebook – How Safe Is Your Cell Number?
For some time, the “Facebook Phonebook” feature has caused quite a bit of confusion (and, in some cases, panic!). A viral message has been going around alerting friends that there is a security threat, when in fact, the Facebook Phonebook is a feature that every user on Facebook gets as part of our personal profile.…
Read MoreFacebook Marketing: How To Balance Personal and Professional
Ever since I landed on “Planet Facebook” in spring of 2007, I’ve been a raving evangelist for the platform and all it can help society to accomplish both from a personal and business standpoint. As much flack as he gets, I have tremendous admiration for CEO, Mark Zucerkberg, and his vision to make a profound…
Read MoreFacebook Places for Business – Social Media Examiner TV Episode 3
It’s time for another episode of Social Media Examiner TV! This time, Mike Stelzner and I decided to focus exclusively on a major new Facebook feature: Places. It’s basically Facebook’s venture into the world of “Location Based Services,” similar to the popular platform, Foursquare, which we featured on SMEtv Episode #1. Be sure to view…
Read MoreSocial Media Examiner TV Show Launches With Host, Mari Smith!
Today is an exciting day!! The pilot episode of Social Media Examiner TV launches and I’m thrilled and honored to be the Host! Social Media Examiner was founded in October 2009 by Mike Stelzner; it’s a popular online magazine and has been named one of the top business blogs by Technorati. Mike is also founder…
Read MoreDefault Landing Tabs Back – Facebook Apologizes
NEWSFLASH: After yesterday’s disappointing news that Facebook Fan Page Admins could no longer direct non-fans to a default custom landing tab unless they had a minimum of 10,000 fans… in less than 24 hours, Facebook has changed the new “rule” back again. The same Facebook staffer who made the forum post yesterday updated the forum…
Read MoreFacebook Nixes Default Landing Tab Option
[UPDATE #2: May 20, 2010: A few members of my community alerted me their Default Landing Tab had “reverted” back… or was working now. So I conducted a test: I logged out of Facebook, then pulled up about a dozen fan pages with fewer than 10,000 fans that would normally land on a Welcome tab.…
Read MoreFacebook Marketing: An Hour A Day – Virtual Launch Party May 3
[UPDATE] – we had a marathon seven-hour Virtual Launch Party today (May 3). Here’s a wee video greeting I recorded for my Facebook wall on my iPhone: First, Chris Treadaway and I co-hosted a three-hour presentation via TinyChat where we discussed many of the chapters in our book, along with the recent changes announced at…
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