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Sep
16

The new Facebook subscribe button

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Facebook has just added a new feature: the subscribe button to the Facebook profile.  With this button, you can subscribe to the posts of people you are friends with and now also with people you are not friends with.  If you want to get public subscribers (meaning people you are not friends with will get your Facebook posts), all you need to do is activate the service in your Facebook profile.  For more details on how the button looks and where you can get it, just watch the short video (here is the link for subscribers):

 

When you activate the subscribe button, you have to be aware that everybody can now subscribe to your posts.  A very good idea is to put your friends into lists and then you can still post private messages to your friend lists and the public subscribers will not see them.  The public subscribers only see the posts that are public and not directed to a specific list.  As mentioned in other blog posts, this looks very similar to Google Circles.  If you are already in Google+, you are familiar with the layout.  If not, it is very easy: you need to categorize your friends in different lists, that you create.  You can create lists for close friends, family, friends that like social media, social media leaders, clients, potential clients, etc..  The possibilities are endless and only curbed by your imagination.  Never name lists negatively though – you never know what Facebook changes next and you wouldn’t want that to become public.  Over all, you should not post negative things in social networks, but that is another topic.

I for myself think that this is a great possibility to get your posts even more viral than before.  Most of my posts are not very personal, but have business and personal things mixed together.  So, if you share your biggest secrets on Facebook, you might not want to activate the service.  If you don’t activate it, you will still have access to the feature in terms that you can change which posts to see from your friends and you can subscribe to other people’s posts.  Your profile will just not have a subscribe button on top and people wouldn’t be able to subscribe to your posts.

Happy posting!

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Dec
08

The new Facebook profile: the changes and how to get it

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Have you seen them already, the new personal profiles from Facebook?  You for sure can get creative with them.  I had fun adding some pictures for everybody to see.  Just watch, that you are not too big in the picture – then you can’t see the pictures very well.  The difference to the old one is that you can tag yourself in pictures and those pictures appear at the top of your profile.  Additionally, there is some basic information about you right at the top.  All together it is meant as a conversation starter because you can see right away, what you might have in common. 

Another change is that you can feature a certain group of friends.  So, if you want to highlight your family, you can feature them to give the Facebook community a chance to learn more about you and them.

You can add a lot more detailed information, like which classes you took in college, which projects you work on at your job and other interests.  Everything is represented through images, which makes the profile a lot more colorful.  I just started playing with it and I will keep you posted on my findings.

Since Facebook is rolling the new profile out slowly, not everybody has the new version right now.  you can get the new Facebook profile right here: http://www.facebook.com/about/profile/.  Just sign in to your Facebook account on that page.  Then you will see at the right top corner a green button “get the new profile.”  Click it and there you go.  Now, you can add (or change) the information you want to display.

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Feb
05

New Facebook Profile Changes

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Facebook celebrates their 6 years anniversary.  Wow, 6 years already – time really flies.  They also celebrate that they reached 400 Million People (!).  So, If you are not on Facebook already, now you have 400 Million reasons why you should be. 

 http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?v=box_3&id=1627710269#!/sitetour/homepage.php

Facebook celebrates the changes with a brand new navigation.  You will find the log out button now under the “account-tab” in the top right corner.  I was looking for it too.  Looking through the comments on the Facebook Blog, I have to say that most people do not welcome change and resist it.  I was pretty surprised myself when I logged in this morning and everything looked different.  But not all is bad.  I really like the top menu in which you can see the newest notifications, requests and messages right away.  You also have easy access to them.  The chat function sits now in the right bottom corner; it is also more accessible now.

Another good feature is that you can see the birthdays of your friends now on the right sidebar.  Why do I think this is good?  It is a real easy way to increase your online visibility to just go and congratulate your friends on their birthday (besides it is just a nice thing to do).  It will bring your name up in their news feed and in their friends’ news feed as well.  This simple and nice gesture brings your name in front of a lot of people. 

A problem is that Facebook moved the navigation bar from the bottom to the left side in the home tab.  It is only accessible in the home tab. 

Something funny happened too: now, the space for the picture and name in the home tab is smaller than before.  If you have a long last name like me, it will simply continue in the next line.  Mine looks now like this:

Wendy LugoSantiag

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At first, I was not sure what happened (why did I have a “0″ there?), but then I noticed it is just the last part of my name.  Funny. 

What really has advertising potential is the photo and video section.  I have now all the photos and videos from my friends in this section.  This means, when I upload a video, all my friends will have it in their video tab too – what potential!

The bottom line is that we all have to get used to the new changes and make the best of them – until Facebook will change everything again.  That just keeps it interesting, don’t you think? 

What do you think about the new changes?

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