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		<title>How to Add Pages You Like in Your (Updated) Facebook News Feed?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently a lot of Facebook users are asking the same question: “I can no longer view page updates in my newsfeed. How do I add pages I like into my Newsfeed? ” Technically, the page updates are still there in your news feed, just not as easily spotted comparing to before. We all know Facebook [...]


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<p style="text-align: justify;">Recently a lot of Facebook users are asking the same question:</p>
<blockquote><p>“I can no longer view page updates in my newsfeed. How do I add pages I like into my Newsfeed? ”</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Technically, the page updates are still there in your <a href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/04/how-to-improve-facebook-engagement-by-decluttering-news-feed.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">news feed</span></a>, just not as easily spotted comparing to before. We all know Facebook has their very own algorithm in deciding which updates to appear in our news feed based on our recent activities and how popular is the post/page according to our interests. Even so, we still might miss out a whole lot more information from the pages we love even Facebook thinks they had it all sorted out for us.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter" title="facebook decides what we read in news feed" src="http://images.wchingya.com/2011/09/facebook-decides-what-we-read-in-news-feed.jpg" alt="facebook decides what we read in news feed" width="485" height="131" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ff6600;"><strong>5 Simple Steps to Organize Your Pages News Feed in Facebook </strong></span></h2>
<p></br></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Facebook agrees that<a href="https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=286305418051455" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;"> ‘Lists’ is the optional way to organize</span></a> what you wish to see in your news feed. Therefore, why not utilize it now to monitor on pages you really care about? Here is how you can make that happen.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">1. In your ‘Home’ section, refer to your sidebar and locate ‘Lists’ -&gt; &#8216;More&#8217;. Or, go to your custom lists <a href="http://www.facebook.com/bookmarks/lists"><span style="color: #0000ff;">here</span></a>.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter" title="lists at your facebook home sidebar" src="http://images.wchingya.com/2011/09/lists-at-your-facebook-home-sidebar.jpg" alt="lists at your facebook home sidebar" width="187" height="297" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">2.  At the upper section of ‘Lists’, look for ‘Create a List’ button to  bring up a pop-up menu. Name your list and click ‘Create List’.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter" title="create and name your facebook list" src="http://images.wchingya.com/2011/09/create-and-name-your-facebook-list.jpg" alt="create and name your facebook list" width="524" height="293" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">3.  Now you can start adding Pages (instead of ‘Friends’) to your list: look for ‘Manage List’ at your upper right corner. In the dropdown menu, select ‘Add/Remove Friends’.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter" title="add pages you like into the list" src="http://images.wchingya.com/2011/09/add-pages-you-like-into-the-list.jpg" alt="add pages you like into the list" width="600" height="288" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">4.  Another pop up box will appear and at its upper left corner, select ‘Pages’ in the dropdown menu –  all pages you liked are displayed in alphabetical order. Start selecting the pages to be included in your list.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter" title="select Pages to display pages you like" src="http://images.wchingya.com/2011/09/select-Pages-to-display-pages-you-like.jpg" alt="select Pages to display pages you like" width="295" height="169" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Tips: It is overwhelming to go through the entire list if you have over thousands of pages. Therefore, <strong>use (partial or full) keywords to find the pages you might be interested.</strong> When you’re satisfied with your choices, click ‘Done’.</em></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter" title="use search box to input keywords to find pages" src="http://images.wchingya.com/2011/09/use-search-box-to-input-keywords-to-find-pages.jpg" alt="use search box to input keywords to find pages" width="552" height="379" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">5.  Now you can manage your list by deciding the type of updates you wish to see in your Page news feed.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter" title="types of updates for your facebook page list" src="http://images.wchingya.com/2011/09/types-of-updates-for-your-facebook-page-list.jpg" alt="types of updates for your facebook page list" width="166" height="271" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Voila! Here is your very own customized News Feed for Pages:</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter" title="news feed from facebook pages you like" src="http://images.wchingya.com/2011/09/news-feed-from-facebook-pages-you-like.jpg" alt="news feed from facebook pages you like" width="600" height="295" /><br />
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ff6600;"><strong>Extra Tips 1: Create several lists instead of One-List-For-All</strong></span></h3>
<p></br></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I would recommend you to create <strong>several lists for Pages You Like</strong> instead of just one that covers ALL. It would be difficult to see ALL page updates even in real time mode. Besides, you can merge the lists into one whenever you feel like it. However, the process is irreversible and the chosen list will be deleted after the merge.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter" title="merge multiple facebook page lists" src="http://images.wchingya.com/2011/09/merge-multiple-facebook-page-lists.jpg" alt="merge multiple facebook page lists" width="512" height="268" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Don’t worry if you do not have all the pages you want in one-go. Customize your list as time progresses, follow up on your current news feed to locate the missed-out pages and add them to your list anytime.</p>
<p></br></p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ff6600;"><strong>Extra Tips 2: Add your Facebook Page Lists to Your Favorites</strong></span></h3>
<p></br></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">All those important lists should go to a more visible area, say, your ‘Favorites’? Click at the pencil icon next to your Page list -&gt; Add to Favorites:</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter" title="add your page list to favorites" src="http://images.wchingya.com/2011/09/add-your-page-list-to-favorites.jpg" alt="add your page list to favorites" width="167" height="118" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong> </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Add as many lists as you prefer. When you’re done, you can rearrange them according to your preference (drag and drop):</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong> </strong></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter" title="sort your page lists in favorites" src="http://images.wchingya.com/2011/09/sort-your-page-lists-in-favorites.jpg" alt="sort your page lists in favorites" width="318" height="258" /><br />
<br /></br></p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ff6600;"><strong>Time Consuming if over Hundreds of Pages?</strong></span></h3>
<p></br></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This is the pitfall of ALL list-making, but even if you have 5000 friends, I believe you would go through the entire list just to make sure your status update is going to the right group of people, right? This could be a great opportunity to better-arrange the pages you like instead of getting them all piled up for nothing. While a better alternative is on the way, this is the least we can do to organize the information we NEED, not depending solely on Facebook algorithm.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">Oh, and while we’re at it, can <strong><a href="http://facebook.com/socialbloggingtracker" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Social @ Blogging Tracker Page</span></span></a></strong> be included in your privileged list too?</h3>
<p></br></p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ff6600;"><strong>Now Is Your Turn&#8230;</strong></span></h2>
<p></br></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Do you like the new changes to our Facebook news feed (excluding Top Stories and Most Recent options)? Would you prefer to have a better control over what information to read on? Do you have a better method in following up on the Pages you like? Kindly share your thoughts in the comment.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[[UPDATED 25/12/2011] If you want to Insert your external Web Page as one of your Page tabs, now this can be done easily with ready–made custom iframe apps. This will also solve the Secure Hosting requirement for your custom apps to display properly in ‘secure browsing’ on Facebook. Below method is ONLY useful for those [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop --><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>[UPDATED 25/12/2011]</strong> If you want to Insert your external Web Page as one of your Page tabs, now this can be done easily with <a href="http://www.wchingya.com/2011/08/iframe-applications-welcome-tab.html" target="_blank"><em><strong>ready–made custom iframe apps</strong></em></a>. This will also solve the <a href="https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/497/" target="_blank"><em>Secure Hosting requirement</em></a> for your custom apps to display properly in ‘secure browsing’ on Facebook.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ff0000;">Below method is ONLY useful for those who wish to create iframe application for other Facebook users to add to their Facebook Pages: </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It has been almost two weeks since the official launch of iframe app, <a href="http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/462"><span style="color: #0000ff;">replacing the good old static FBML</span></a> tabs on our facebook pages. For those who aren’t sure what is an iframe, basically it is a standard HTML tag to enable a HTML document to be inserted into another HTML page. The benefit of iframes over FBML is that it accepts a wide range of web coding (Javascript, CSS etc) that used to be non-compatible in static FBML to create dynamic content for our custom tabs. Best of all, you can even import your custom made web page to be included in your fan page! Imagine how convenient that would be for your promotional effort!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Since <strong>no more NEW static fbml applications can be added</strong> to our managed pages, it’s important to know exactly how to work from creating the app to adding it to your facebook page successfully. I will try to be as thorough as I manage:</p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ff6600;"><strong>How to Create and Add Custom iFrame Tab to Facebook Page</strong></span></h2>
<p></br></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">
<p>Firstly, you need to prepare a html page to be inserted into your facebook page. You may use Dreamweaver for the job and upload the html file to your web server so to be pulled into your fan page later. Or, we can do this the easy way with less complication via a wordpress plugin named <strong>Facebook Tab Manager</strong>. What I love about this tab editor is that it saves time and keeps the custom tab size limit of 520px wide so no resizing is needed afterward.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Add Facebook Tab Manager to your WordPress Blog </span></h3>
<p></br></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">1.  Login to your blog and add <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/facebook-tab-manager/"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Facebook Tab Manager</span></a> to your plugins.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">2.  Activate it and look for ‘Facebook Tabs’ at your sidebar -&gt; click ‘Add New’. Notice that to create the iframe tab content is as easy as how you normally write a new post.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/create-iframe-content-with-facebook-tab-manager.png"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-5574" title="create iframe content with facebook tab manager" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/create-iframe-content-with-facebook-tab-manager.png" alt="create iframe content with facebook tab manager" width="411" height="194" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">3.  When done, hit ‘publish’. New instructions will appear at the bottom of the post on configurations to register your content on facebook:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/configuration-for-facebook-integration-tab.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-5575" title="configuration for facebook integration tab" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/configuration-for-facebook-integration-tab-600x262.jpg" alt="configuration for facebook integration tab" width="600" height="262" /></a></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Customize Facebook Tab with iframe App</span></h3>
<p></br></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">4.  Go to <a href="http://www.facebook.com/developers/createapp.php"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Facebook Developer</span></a> and start setting up your new iframe app.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/create-iframe-app-for-your-facebook-page-at-developer-page.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-5576" title="create iframe app for your facebook page at developer page" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/create-iframe-app-for-your-facebook-page-at-developer-page.jpg" alt="create iframe app for your facebook page at developer page" width="503" height="198" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>[UPDATED Image: 25/12/2011]</strong></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://images.wchingya.com//2011/03/create-new-app-on-facebook-developers.jpg"><img src="http://images.wchingya.com//2011/03/create-new-app-on-facebook-developers.jpg" alt="create new app on facebook developers" title="create new app on facebook developers" width="598" height="193" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5754" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>[END]</strong></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;"><em><strong>Note:</strong></em></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;">Some of you who are creating your facebook application for the first time, verification process may be required. If you had already verified your facebook account before this, you can bypass this step. Otherwise, you need to go ahead and select to verify your account with <a href="http://www.facebook.com/confirmphone.php"><span style="color: #0000ff;">mobile phone</span></a> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/confirmphone.php"></a>or <a href="https://secure.facebook.com/cards.php"><span style="color: #0000ff;">credit card</span></a>. Or, if you are not comfortable with this step, add an admin who is already done the verification to work on the new iframe application.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">5. <del datetime="2011-12-25T12:41:28+00:00"> The ‘About’ section consists of some necessary fields besides filling in your app name. Add image to your icon and logo so it’s recognizable.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/basic-information-for-your-iframe-app.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-5577" title="basic information for your iframe app" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/basic-information-for-your-iframe-app.jpg" alt="basic information for your iframe app" width="545" height="320" /></a></del></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>[UPDATED Image 25/12/2011]</strong></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;">Edit your app icon: <em>Settings -> Basic -> Edit icon</em>: </p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://images.wchingya.com//2011/03/edit-icon-for-your-iframe-app.jpg"><img src="http://images.wchingya.com//2011/03/edit-icon-for-your-iframe-app.jpg" alt="edit icon for your iframe app" title="edit icon for your iframe app" width="410" height="110" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5757" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>[END]</strong></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;"><em><strong>Tips: Why icon/logo image is important?</strong></em></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;">‘Icon’ image will show up next to your app name when added as a new tab to your facebook page. ‘Logo’ image will appear in app directory, for example:  you can have a look at your ‘Edit Page -&gt; App after you added it to your page :</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/app-logo-for-your-iframe-app.png"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-5578" title="app logo for your iframe app" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/app-logo-for-your-iframe-app.png" alt="app logo for your iframe app" width="207" height="102" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">6.  At ‘Facebook Integration’ section is where all the hard work landed. Here are some important fields that required to be filled correctly:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">In Canvas Section:</span></p>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li>Canvas Page – the base URL of your application on facebook.</li>
<li>Canvas URL – this is the URL where facebook pulls in your iframe content.</li>
<li>Secure Canvas URL – the secure version of Canvas URL with ‘https’. Basically the same info you entered in your ‘Canvas URL’.</li>
</ul>
<p style="padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;">Complicated? No worries. Refer back to step #3 above and locate the ‘Facebook Integration Tab’ in your blog and copy/paste the links given to you, for example:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Canvas-URL-and-Tab-URL-given-by-your-facebook-tab-manager-plugin.png"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-5579" title="Canvas URL and Tab URL given by your facebook tab manager plugin" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Canvas-URL-and-Tab-URL-given-by-your-facebook-tab-manager-plugin.png" alt="Canvas URL and Tab URL given by your facebook tab manager plugin" width="592" height="99" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>[UPDATED Image/Instructions 25/12/2011]</strong></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;">Go to <em>Settings -> Basic -> Select how your app integrates with Facebook -> Save Changes</em>: </p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://images.wchingya.com//2011/03/select-how-your-app-integrates-with-facebook.jpg"><img src="http://images.wchingya.com//2011/03/select-how-your-app-integrates-with-facebook.jpg" alt="select how your app integrates with facebook" title="select how your app integrates with facebook" width="495" height="240" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5755" /></a></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;">To create and associate a new (community) page with your app, go to <em>Settings ->Advanced ->Contact Info ->App Page (Create Facebook Page)</em> (optional) :</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://images.wchingya.com//2011/03/create-community-page-for-your-iframe-app.jpg"><img src="http://images.wchingya.com//2011/03/create-community-page-for-your-iframe-app.jpg" alt="create community page for your iframe app" title="create community page for your iframe app" width="422" height="227" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5756" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>[END]</strong></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;"><del datetime="2011-12-25T12:41:28+00:00">Below is the example of how Canvas section is filled:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/canvas-info-for-iframe-app-in-Facebook-Integration-section.png"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-5580" title="canvas info for iframe app in Facebook Integration section" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/canvas-info-for-iframe-app-in-Facebook-Integration-section.png" alt="canvas info for iframe app in Facebook Integration section" width="507" height="235" /></a></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">*Caution*:</span></strong></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #800080;">If you are <strong>unable to see the iframe app</strong> after installed to your page (regardless if you’re in ‘http’ or ‘https’), <strong>leave the ‘Secure Canvas URL’ field BLANK.</strong> Your iframe tab should be able to work in &#8216;http&#8217; (non-secured browsing) and in order to view that, you need to go to <em>Account -> Account Settings -> Account Security -></em> UNCHECK <em>Secure Browsing</em>. This is believed to be caused by a known issue on how our custom app is not visible when viewed in secured browser (https) as described </span><a href="http://bugs.developers.facebook.net/show_bug.cgi?id=15200"><span style="color: #0000ff;">in this bug report</span></a>. </p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #800080;">The bug occurred in February and was said to be fixed in mid March, however it seems that the bug is back again recently and affecting some of my pages. Will follow up on this issue and if you know how to fix this, do share.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">In Page Tabs Section: </span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;">The important parts are ‘Tab URL’ and ‘Secure Tab URL’. Both links are referring to the html file location including its file name -&gt; Save Changes:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Information-for-Page-Tabs.png"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-5581" title="Information for Page Tabs" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Information-for-Page-Tabs.png" alt="Information for Page Tabs" width="542" height="262" /></a></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">*Caution*:</span></strong></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #800080;">Again, if your app tab is not viewable, <strong>leave the ‘Secure Canvas URL’ field BLANK </strong>until the bug issue for secured browsing (‘https’) is fixed.</span></del></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;">So now, your new iframe app is created!</p>
<p></br></p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Add Your iFrame App to your Facebook Page</span></h3>
<p></br></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>[UPDATED 25/12/2011]</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Refer to the documentation on how you can <a href="https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/dialogs/add_to_page/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">add a page tab dialog</span></a>, or the one near to the end of <a href="https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/611/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">this post</span></a>. Clearly there is no longer a view app profile page link available in Developers apps section. No idea why though. <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>[END]</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><del datetime="2011-12-25T12:41:28+00:00">7.  Now go back to your ‘My Apps’ page and select ‘Application Profile Page’.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/application-profile-page-for-your-iframe-app.png"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-5582" title="application profile page for your iframe app" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/application-profile-page-for-your-iframe-app.png" alt="application profile page for your iframe app" width="539" height="290" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">8.  Then as how you normally add application to your page, click ‘Add to My Page’ -&gt; then Add to the page you want:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/add-iframe-app-to-your-selected-facebook-page.png"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-5583" title="add iframe app to your selected facebook page" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/add-iframe-app-to-your-selected-facebook-page.png" alt="add iframe app to your selected facebook page" width="570" height="112" /></a></del></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">9.  See that a new tab is added at your page sidebar. <a href="http://www.wchingya.com/2011/02/tips-upgraded-page.html"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Rearrange the tab</a></span> [#2(c)] to a preferred location or set it as your landing tab.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/iframe-tab-successfully-installed-to-page.png"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-5584" title="iframe tab successfully installed to page" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/iframe-tab-successfully-installed-to-page-566x300.png" alt="iframe tab successfully installed to page" width="566" height="300" /></a></p>
<h3 style="padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ff0000;">*Caution*:</span></h3>
<p style="padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #800080;">For some web developers who intends to import their external web pages to facebook pages, <strong>be sure to check if your page consists of any disallowed ad providers</strong>. Thanks to Kim for providing </span><a href="http://developers.facebook.com/adproviders/"><span style="color: #0000ff;">this info</span></a><span style="color: #800080;"> so not to violate facebook </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/terms.php"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Terms of Use</span></a><span style="color: #800080;"> (refer to the part about <strong>&#8217;9.</strong> <strong>Special Provisions Applicable to Developers/Operators of Applications and Websites&#8217;)</strong>.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">10.  You can rename your custom tab by going to Edit Page -&gt; App -&gt; your app name -&gt; Custom Tab Name -&gt; after edit, click Save:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/customize-your-iframe-tab-name.png"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-5585" title="customize your iframe tab name" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/customize-your-iframe-tab-name.png" alt="customize your iframe tab name" width="451" height="283" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">So whenever you wish to create a new custom tab, you need to go through all the steps again to get it done. Time consuming isn’t it?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">To make things easier, if I could I will try to find other alternatives or ready-apps so even facebook beginners could enjoy as much privilege without having to go through the lengthy steps. Be sure to follow close and don’t miss upcoming posts!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ff0000;">Updated Post to check out:</span><br />
<a href="http://www.wchingya.com/2011/08/iframe-applications-welcome-tab.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">7 Free iFrame Applications to Create Welcome Tab (Custom Tabs) for Your Facebook Page</a></span>.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ff6600;"><strong>Now Is Your Turn…</strong></span></h2>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">How is your experience with iframe app so far? Has it been more useful for your page or not? Do you have any special tips to add? Feel free to do so in the comments.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop --><p style="text-align: justify;">It has been four months since we talked about how to <a href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/09/email-notification-facebook-page.html"><span style="color: #0000ff;">receive email notification for facebook page</span></a> updates. Up till today, this feature remains unavailable on facebook. Apart from regular checking, page admin can only rely on third party applications to monitor upcoming posts and comments from fans.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I had previously introduced <a href="http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=103658203021179"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Page Notifier</span></a> and <a href="http://fanpagenotifier.com/"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Fan Page Notifier</span></a> to monitor page activity (read <a href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/09/email-notification-facebook-page.html"><span style="color: #0000ff;">this post</span></a> to learn more about them). Page Notifier&#8217;s free version provides one-time-scan per 24 hours.  As much I’m satisfied with its results, I longed for more scans in a day. As for Fan Page Notifier, the last time I got an email notification from it was end of December 2010. Not sure why it stopped. I went back in and updated my subscription recently, we’ll see how it performs few days later.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It&#8217;s absolutely fair to have limitations when using a free application, I understand that. In fact, I appreciate the app developers for trying to make our lives easier with these nifty facebook applications. Still, it never stops me to source for better alternatives, which is why I’m thrilled to introduce you these two new, free facebook applications that made my page monitoring a lot easier starting 2011:</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">#1  <a href="http://www.hyperalerts.no/"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Hyper Alerts</span></a></span></h3>
<p></br></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">Hyper Alerts won me over with its tag line ‘<em>The Feature Facebook Forgot</em>’ (how true is that!). It’s currently in public BETA (FREE) so definitely worth a try. The setup is almost instantaneous, start by registering yourself with an email:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-5358" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2011/02/facebook-apps-notifications-2011.html/registration-for-hyper-alerts"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-5358" title="registration for Hyper Alerts" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/registration-for-Hyper-Alerts.png" alt="registration for Hyper Alerts" width="596" height="149" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">Then, decide how you wish to add your facebook page to be monitored:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 60px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Option (1): </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Add Alert by URL</span><br />
-	All you need is to type in your facebook page URL  -&gt; <em>Add</em>, and you’re set. You don&#8217;t need to add this app to your facebook page at all! Plus, you can even monitor other fan pages you like but not under your administration.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 60px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-5359" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2011/02/facebook-apps-notifications-2011.html/add-facebook-page-alert-by-url"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-5359" title="add facebook page alert by URL" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/add-facebook-page-alert-by-URL.png" alt="add facebook page alert by URL" width="393" height="179" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 60px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Option (2): </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Add Alert from your Facebook User</span><br />
-	This option, on the other hand, requires authorization to access your facebook account. The purpose is to retrieve all facebook pages you are currently managing with your profile so you can select multiple facebook pages at once.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">Normally I would go for option (1) since no strings attached (less privacy concern). But in order to receive instant email notification for new posts and comments, I was requested to connect my facebook page with the app anyway with option (1) :</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-5360" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2011/02/facebook-apps-notifications-2011.html/add-hyper-alerts-to-get-immediate-email-notification-for-your-facebook-page"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-5360" title="add Hyper Alerts to get immediate email notification for your facebook page" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/add-Hyper-Alerts-to-get-immediate-email-notification-for-your-facebook-page.png" alt="add Hyper Alerts to get immediate email notification for your facebook page" width="395" height="155" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">So bottom line, you have <strong>two choices</strong> based on your alert frequencies:</p>
<ul>
<li> If you refuse to allow Hyper Alerts to access your facebook account, you need to settle with either one of these alert frequencies: Hourly, Daily, Weekly or Monthly.</li>
<li>If you prefer to receive email notification ‘as soon as possible’ for new posts and comments,  it&#8217;s a must to add Hyper Alerts to your facebook page (authorization required).</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">For now, I don’t think HyperAlerts is capable of notifying new photo comments (within photo albums) but only updates from the page wall:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-5369" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2011/02/facebook-apps-notifications-2011.html/hyper-alerts-email-notifications"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-5369" title="hyper alerts email notifications" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/hyper-alerts-email-notifications.png" alt="hyper alerts email notifications" width="536" height="364" /></a></p>
<p></br></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>What I love about Hyper Alerts:</strong></span><br />
It’s always a courtesy to ask if user wants to add the application to their facebook account. Even if we are not ready to allow access for Hyper Alerts, it still gives us other options &#8211; that&#8217;s thoughtful. I love how a user can opt-out of ‘Own Content’ so only fans posts or comments are notified, reducing the noise in our inbox. Not to mention, the ability to monitor other pages we like is a bonus!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-5361" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2011/02/facebook-apps-notifications-2011.html/scanning-frequency-and-options-for-hyper-alerts"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-5361" title="scanning frequency and options for hyper alerts" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/scanning-frequency-and-options-for-hyper-alerts.png" alt="scanning frequency and options for hyper alerts" width="440" height="110" /></a></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">#2  <a href="http://mediafeedia.com"><span style="color: #0000ff;">MediaFeedia</span></a></span></h3>
<p></br></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">MediaFeedia is actually a facebook management tool and &#8216;fan page notifications&#8217; just happens to be one of the offered features. Similar to most web applications, you need to register (either via facebook connect or email address). Then, you will be asked to import your facebook account to select the pages:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-5363" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2011/02/facebook-apps-notifications-2011.html/select-the-facebook-page-you-wish-to-monitor-in-mediafeedia"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-5363" title="select the facebook page you wish to monitor in mediafeedia" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/select-the-facebook-page-you-wish-to-monitor-in-mediafeedia.png" alt="select the facebook page you wish to monitor in mediafeedia" width="266" height="180" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">Once confirmed your page selections, go to <em>Fan Page Notifications -&gt; Start Monitoring -&gt;</em> type in your email address to receive page alerts. The maximum number of email addresses you can enter is three:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-5364" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2011/02/facebook-apps-notifications-2011.html/start-monitoring-your-facebook-page-by-updating-email-address"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-5364" title="start monitoring your facebook page by updating email address" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/start-monitoring-your-facebook-page-by-updating-email-address.png" alt="start monitoring your facebook page by updating email address" width="626" height="240" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">This is how mediafeedia email notification looks like in your email:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-5365" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2011/02/facebook-apps-notifications-2011.html/email-notification-by-mediafeedia"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-5365" title="email notification by mediafeedia" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/email-notification-by-mediafeedia.png" alt="email notification by mediafeedia" width="519" height="373" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">Mediafeedia includes updates from the page admin him/herself.  By clicking at ‘Comment’ you will be redirected to your facebook page to reply and view the complete conversation:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-5366" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2011/02/facebook-apps-notifications-2011.html/new-comment-alert-responding-to-fans-posting"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-5366" title="new comment alert responding to fans posting" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/new-comment-alert-responding-to-fans-posting.png" alt="new comment alert responding to fans posting" width="529" height="145" /></a></p>
<p></br></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>What I love about MediaFeedia:</strong></span><br />
I have started using MediaFeedia since early January, I must say this application is exactly what I was looking for to improve my page monitoring with Page Notifier. The scan results are very similar to Hyper Alerts’ but with extra features such as post scheduling and email invitation to other admins.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-5367" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2011/02/facebook-apps-notifications-2011.html/add-admin-to-monitor-your-page-alerts-in-mediafeedia"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-5367" title="add admin to monitor your page alerts in mediafeedia" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/add-admin-to-monitor-your-page-alerts-in-mediafeedia.png" alt="add admin to monitor your page alerts in mediafeedia" width="540" height="312" /></a></p>
<p></br></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Hyper Alerts and MediaFeedia are both showing profile thumbnail in their email alerts. I find that a significant ‘visual’ improvement for page notification apps, also a good way to get familiarized with who our fans are via their profile image.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop --><p style="text-align: justify;">I hope you had a blast fine-tuning your <a href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/11/clients-testimonials-blog.html"><span style="color: #0000ff;">blog with testimonials</span></a> last week. It’s really encouraging to hear that some are trying out the methods, can’t wait to receive more feedbacks on that! In the mean time, I will be sharing few more practical ways to display testimonials (and portfolio) on your <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/wchingya"><span style="color: #0000ff;">LinkedIn</span></a> and <a href="http://www.facebook.com/socialbloggingtracker"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Facebook Page</span></a>! Now there are definitely limitations comparing to working on a self-hosted blog because application is the main key. Not the best of plans but hopefully you can be inspired by this post  and work out creative ways to promote your brand:</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ff6600;"><strong>Testimonials (Portfolio) on LinkedIn </strong></span></h2>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #800080;">1.  LinkedIn Recommendations</span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/"><span style="color: #0000ff;">LinkedIn</span></a> is well known for its business-oriented social network  among the professionals and experts. Due to that, &#8216;LinkedIn recommendations&#8217; plays a major role in strengthening your business network by allowing others to know your unique skills and talents when collaborating with a client. There are two things you should know about LinkedIn Recommendations:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4810" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/12/linkedin-facebook-testimonials.html/linkedin-recommendations-2"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4810" title="linkedin recommendations" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/linkedin-recommendations.png" alt="linkedin recommendations" width="491" height="205" /></a></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><strong>a)      <span style="text-decoration: underline;">How to request a recommendation?</span></strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><em>Go to Profile -&gt; Recommendations -&gt; Request Recommendations</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">I would suggest you to only send recommendation requests to <strong>people you know that could give an in depth commentary about your working ethics</strong>. Don’t send it to 500+ contacts on your list but be selective to whom you chose. If need to, communicate with the person before you send the request. This is NOT a popularity contest with the most recommendations wins. Remember &#8216;<strong>Quality over Quantity</strong>&#8216;.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4811" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/12/linkedin-facebook-testimonials.html/request-linkedin-recommendations-from-your-contacts-2"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4811" title="request linkedin recommendations from your contacts" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/request-linkedin-recommendations-from-your-contacts.png" alt="request linkedin recommendations from your contacts" width="604" height="363" /></a></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><strong>b)      <span style="text-decoration: underline;">How to backup your recommendations periodically?</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">One of the best features I love about LinkedIn is the backup facility. Users can backup profile details along with their client recommendations in <em>.pdf</em> format (with presentable layout). You can send this file to your potential clients, especially those who yet to own a LinkedIn account or unable to access your full professional data. Simply thoughtful!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4812" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/12/linkedin-facebook-testimonials.html/backup-linkedin-profile-details-and-recommendations-2"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4812" title="backup linkedin profile details and recommendations" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/backup-linkedin-profile-details-and-recommendations.png" alt="backup linkedin profile details and recommendations" width="248" height="188" /></a></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #800080;">2.  Creative Portfolio Display &#8211; LinkedIn Application</span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/opensocialInstallation/preview?_ch_panel_id=1&amp;_applicationId=104096 "><span style="color: #0000ff;">Creative Portfolio Display</span></a> is an application that allows creative professionals (graphic designers, photographers etc) to showcase their art work on LinkedIn. With just a click your contacts can view your complete portfolio and even rate it! This application is powered by <em>Behance</em> and I had been using it to showcase my facebook page customization work. Go ahead and see how the full <a href="http://www.behance.net/gallery/Facebook-Page-Customization/614615"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Behance portfolio</span></a> looks like. Maybe you can rate it too since you’re there? <img src='http://www.wchingya.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4813" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/12/linkedin-facebook-testimonials.html/behance-creative-portfolio-display-2"><a href="http://www.behance.net/gallery/Facebook-Page-Customization/614615"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4813" title="behance creative portfolio display" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/behance-creative-portfolio-display.png" alt="behance creative portfolio display" width="389" height="395" /></a></a></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #800080;">3.  Add Video Testimonial or Portfolio – LinkedIn Profile</span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><em>Slideshare</em> makes it possible to publish video on Linkedin Profile. It supports .flv, .avi, .wmv and more formats <a href="http://help.slideshare.com/entries/164193-what-video-formats-does-slideshare-currently-support"><span style="color: #0000ff;">can be found here</span></a>. You can make it so to display your monthly client video testimonial (refer to point #6 in <a href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/11/clients-testimonials-blog.html"><span style="color: #0000ff;">this post</span></a>) or a compilation of the work you&#8217;ve done with dynamic content that is memorable and shareable.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4814" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/12/linkedin-facebook-testimonials.html/upload-video-to-linkedin-profile-with-slideshare-2"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4814" title="upload video to linkedin profile with slideshare" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/upload-video-to-linkedin-profile-with-slideshare.jpg" alt="upload video to linkedin profile with slideshare" width="561" height="415" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">The procedure is not complicated at all. Just upload your video to <a href="http://www.slideshare.net"><span style="color: #0000ff;">SlideShare</span></a> or do so from your <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/opensocialInstallation/preview?_ch_panel_id=1&amp;_applicationId=1200"><span style="color: #0000ff;">LinkedIn SlideShare</span></a> application. Once your video is uploaded, fill up your video details and wait for the conversion to finish. When it’s done, go to <em>‘Your Slidespace’ -&gt; ‘Your Presentations’ </em>to check on your video status. Here is a video example I made for my <a href="http://www.wchingya.com/logobanner-designs"><span style="color: #0000ff;">facebook customization work</span></a>:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><object id="vp1Go5yn" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="432" height="240" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="src" value="http://static.animoto.com/swf/w.swf?w=swf/vp1&amp;e=1291640389&amp;f=Go5yn08MJbG1bW0zplWc8g&amp;d=82&amp;m=p&amp;r=w+s&amp;i=m&amp;ct=Love%20to%20hear%20from%20you!%20&amp;cu=http://www.wchingya.com/logobanner-designs&amp;options=" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><embed id="vp1Go5yn" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="432" height="240" src="http://static.animoto.com/swf/w.swf?w=swf/vp1&amp;e=1291640389&amp;f=Go5yn08MJbG1bW0zplWc8g&amp;d=82&amp;m=p&amp;r=w+s&amp;i=m&amp;ct=Love%20to%20hear%20from%20you!%20&amp;cu=http://www.wchingya.com/logobanner-designs&amp;options=" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object><br />
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<h2 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ff6600;"><strong>Testimonials on Facebook Page </strong></span></h2>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #800080;">1.  Reviews &#8211; Facebook Application</span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">You can request your fans/clients to review your service or company products via <a href="http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=6261817190"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Reviews tab</span></a>. Clients can update their reviews anytime, re-rate the service or delete their comments. They can even comment on other people’s feedback. As an admin, you can neither edit nor delete the content. It is an irony between getting fair reviews from all parties and the headaches when dealing with spammer/troller.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4815" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/12/linkedin-facebook-testimonials.html/reviews-application-to-request-testimonials-2"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4815" title="reviews application to request testimonials" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/reviews-application-to-request-testimonials.png" alt="reviews application to request testimonials" width="479" height="178" /></a></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #800080;">2.  Custom Testimonial tab with Static FBML</span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">If you prefer to have control over what have been said about your company service or website, why not personalize a Testimonial tab with <a href="http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=4949752878&amp;b"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Static FBML</span></a> (iframe &#8211; coming soon)? You can customize and design the layout as you pleased with texts or images (non-editable), just as how I did for a client of mine:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4816" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/12/linkedin-facebook-testimonials.html/testimonial-tab-with-custom-tab-on-facebook-page-2"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4816" title="testimonial tab with custom tab on facebook page" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/testimonial-tab-with-custom-tab-on-facebook-page.jpg" alt="testimonial tab with custom tab on facebook page" width="530" height="289" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">If you are not familiar with HTML, try a subtab instead from <a href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/11/welcome-sub-tabs-facebook-page.html"><span style="color: #0000ff;">these ready-made facebook applications for custom tabs</span></a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4817" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/12/linkedin-facebook-testimonials.html/testimonials-as-subtab-in-fan-page"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4817" title="testimonials as subtab in fan page" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/testimonials-as-subtab-in-fan-page.png" alt="testimonials as subtab in fan page" width="366" height="114" /></a></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">To Collect Testimonials on a Facebook Fan Page</span></strong></span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">There are many ways you can acquire testimonials from clients or fans in a facebook page. Besides on your wall comments, why not setup a Testimonial form from one of these <a href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/10/contact-form-facebook-page-fbml.html"><span style="color: #0000ff;">contact forms</span></a>? Here is one I set up using Jotform:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4818" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/12/linkedin-facebook-testimonials.html/testimonial-submission-in-fan-page"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4818" title="testimonial submission in fan page" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/testimonial-submission-in-fan-page.png" alt="testimonial submission in fan page" width="463" height="455" /></a></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #800080;">3.  Facebook Comments for a Custom Tab &#8211; Social Plugins</span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a href="http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/comments"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Facebook comments</span></a> can be inserted in a custom tab to encourage responses about your service. For example, set a portfolio tab then embed the facebook comments to generate discussions and fans feedback. Best of all, you can have control over the comments by eliminating spammers with ‘Delete’or ‘Report’. That’s a plus comparing to Reviews tab.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4820" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/12/linkedin-facebook-testimonials.html/facebook-comments-social-plugin"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4820" title="facebook comments social plugin" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/facebook-comments-social-plugin.png" alt="facebook comments social plugin" width="488" height="230" /></a></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #800080;"><strong>4</strong><strong>.  Other Feedback Applications – Under Observations (as Reference)</strong></span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">I was actually quite impressed with ‘<a href="http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=360775099491"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Feedback Application</span></a>’ but unfortunately it had ceased to operate since 1st December, 2010. Comparing to Reviews app, Feedback app gives admin extra advantage in feedback management, where bad ratings or hate comments can be hidden from page view. I was using it for a few weeks so worth a mention here.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4821" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/12/linkedin-facebook-testimonials.html/feedback-application-to-request-ratings"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4821" title="feedback application to request ratings" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/feedback-application-to-request-ratings.jpg" alt="feedback application to request ratings" width="533" height="299" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">I was looking for a replacement, that’s when I found <a href="http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=46468144668"><span style="color: #0000ff;">User Voice</span></a>. As you can see on Hootsuite’s facebook page it is performing rather well for fans to post suggestions, vote and comment on them. But still, it is more of an idea-collector tool instead of a rating app. I had been waiting for their beta invite for facebook tab embed since few weeks ago but no replies thus far. Not much to comment for now.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4822" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/12/linkedin-facebook-testimonials.html/uservoice-to-replace-feedback-tab-in-facebook-page"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4822" title="uservoice to replace feedback tab in facebook page" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/uservoice-to-replace-feedback-tab-in-facebook-page.png" alt="uservoice to replace feedback tab in facebook page" width="537" height="408" /></a></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #800080;">5.  Import Twitter Testimonials to your Facebook Page</span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">If you are collecting Twitter Testimonials, you may import it to your Facebook page wall via <a href="http://www.wchingya.com/2009/10/share-selective-tweets-facebook-pages.html"><span style="color: #0000ff;">selective tweets</span></a>, <a href="http://twitterfeed.com/"><span style="color: #0000ff;">TwitterFeed</span></a> or <a href="http://hootsuite.com/"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Hootsuite</span></a>. That way you fans can be updated as soon as your twitter followers had endorsed your work. Refer to <a href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/05/import-twitter-favorites-facebook-page.html"><span style="color: #0000ff;">this post</span></a> on how to get it done.</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ff6600;"><strong>Now Is Your Turn…</strong></span></h2>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Have you been using any of the methods above to promote your brand? Or do you have a secret &#8216;testimonial&#8217; recipe of your own? Enlighten us in the comments, love to hear from you!</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop --><p style="text-align: justify;">It’s good to be home! For those of you who missed my <a href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/10/facebook-twitter-resources.html"><span style="color: #0000ff;">last post</span></a>, I was taking a short break from the net due to health reasons. Glad to start writing again, but I won’t be force feeding you with lengthy posts just yet. How about something light and easy this week with a few handy tips for your daily facebook experience?</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">16++ Facebook Tips You Should Not Miss!</span></h2>
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<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800080;">#1  To Control Facebook Font Size for Readability</span></h3>
<p></br></p>
<blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">To enlarge: Press &#8216;Ctrl&#8217; and &#8216;+&#8217;;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">To minimize: Press &#8216;Ctrl&#8217; &amp; &#8216;-&#8217;</p>
</blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4532" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/10/16-facebook-tips-not-miss.html/adjust-font-size-for-readability-in-facebook"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4532" title="adjust font size for readability in facebook" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/adjust-font-size-for-readability-in-facebook.jpg" alt="" width="468" height="316" /></a></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800080;">#2  To Bold and Underline your text in Facebook Chat</span></h3>
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<blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">For <strong>Bold</strong> text &#8211;&gt; *your message*</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">For <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Underline</span> &#8211;&gt; _your message_</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800080;">#3  To Bypass 420 characters limit for Status Updates</span></h3>
<p></br></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">Add a photo to your status update and enjoy the limit-free characters.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">(<em>Suggestion</em>: use photo that is related to what you&#8217;re sharing, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=445191060962&amp;set=a.376118905962.154418.106236190962&amp;comments&amp;ref=mf"><span style="color: #0000ff;">see here for the example</span></a>)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4533" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/10/16-facebook-tips-not-miss.html/bypass-420-characters-limit-for-facebook-status-update"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4533" title="bypass 420 characters limit for facebook status update" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/bypass-420-characters-limit-for-facebook-status-update.png" alt="" width="532" height="251" /></a></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800080;">#4  To Increase the number of Pages or Friends to appear in News Feed</span></h3>
<p></br></p>
<blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">At News Feed &gt; Most Recent &gt; Scroll down to bottom, click Edit Options &gt; Increase the maximum number of friends (or pages) shown in Live Feed OR, insert your own selections of ‘Recommended Friends (or Pages)’.</p>
</blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4534" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/10/16-facebook-tips-not-miss.html/news-feed-settings-for-friends-and-fan-pages-updates"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4534" title="news feed settings for friends and fan pages updates" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/news-feed-settings-for-friends-and-fan-pages-updates.png" alt="" width="443" height="364" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">If you are a page admin, encourage your fans to add your page. But mind you, ‘popularity’ is another major factor that you need to be aware of: <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-10-18/the-facebook-news-feed-how-it-works-the-10-biggest-secrets/full/"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Facebook News Feed Settings &#8211; Random or Not, Biggest Secrets Revealed</span></a></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800080;">#5  To Display extra Information on Facebook Page Wall with &#8216;Founded&#8217;</span></h3>
<p></br></p>
<blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Go to Edit Page -&gt; Basic Information -&gt; Founded -&gt; type not more than 247 characters for your (extra) business info.</p>
</blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4535" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/10/16-facebook-tips-not-miss.html/add-extra-fan-page-info-with-founded-option"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4535" title="add extra fan page info with founded option" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/add-extra-fan-page-info-with-founded-option.png" alt="" width="610" height="85" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4536" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/10/16-facebook-tips-not-miss.html/founded-information-on-fan-page"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4536" title="founded information on fan page" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/founded-information-on-fan-page.png" alt="" width="200" height="154" /></a></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800080;">#6  To Access your Application Settings directly from profile</span></h3>
<p></br></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">We all know the <em>Account -&gt; Application Settings</em> is no longer available. But you can still reach the application page easily via this direct link: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=applications"><span style="color: #0000ff;">http://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=applications</span></a> Bookmark it if you’ll use it often.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4537" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/10/16-facebook-tips-not-miss.html/application-settings-for-facebook-account"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4537" title="application settings for facebook account" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/application-settings-for-facebook-account.png" alt="" width="495" height="195" /></a></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800080;">#7  To Review your Invites and Imported Contacts</span></h3>
<p></br></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/invite_history.php"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Invite History</span></a> is an important link to track contacts you had invited to join Facebook. As an admin, I find this particularly useful when I’m sending email invitations to those who are yet to own a facebook profile but to co-administer my page. That way I can track their responses and send reminder to them if need to. Also, a good way to discover if the invited contacts are all set with a personal profile to be added as friends:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4538" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/10/16-facebook-tips-not-miss.html/review-invites-and-imported-contacts-to-facebook"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4538" title="review invites and imported contacts to facebook" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/review-invites-and-imported-contacts-to-facebook.png" alt="" width="700" height="201" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/invite_history.php"></a></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800080;">#8  To Remove all your Imported Contacts from Phone or Emails</span></h3>
<p></br></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">If you’re a mobile user who had accidentally imported your friends from <a href="http://www.facebook.com/find-friends/"><span style="color: #0000ff;">phone contacts or emails</span></a> while authorizing an app, remove and <a href="http://www.facebook.com/contact_importer/remove_uploads.php/?r=/invite_history.php"><span style="color: #0000ff;">protect their privacy (and yours) via this link</span></a> so they won&#8217;t be exposed on <em>Edit Friends -> Phonebook</em>:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4539" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/10/16-facebook-tips-not-miss.html/remove-imported-contacts-to-your-facebook"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4539" title="remove imported contacts to your facebook" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/remove-imported-contacts-to-your-facebook.png" alt="" width="529" height="100" /></a></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800080;">#9   Discover Facebook Pages to &#8216;Like&#8217;</span></h3>
<p></br></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/browser.php"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Browse facebook pages</span></a> you may find interest in based on categories or countries. Not only that, you can even discover what your friends and you have in common based in mutual ‘liked’ pages.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4540" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/10/16-facebook-tips-not-miss.html/discover-facebook-pages-to-like-and-mutual-likes-with-friends"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4540" title="discover facebook pages to like and mutual likes with friends" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/discover-facebook-pages-to-like-and-mutual-likes-with-friends.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="239" /></a></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800080;">#10  To Browse Directory by Name</span></h3>
<p></br></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">A full directory that contains <a href="http://facebook.com/directory"><span style="color: #0000ff;">public search listings on facebook</span></a> – profiles, pages, applications, groups, you name it &#8211; all arranged alphabetically by last name. Numbers 1 to 26 contain non-Latin character names. If you do not wish to be found here, make sure to opt out by changing your privacy settings for <em>Public Search</em>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4541" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/10/16-facebook-tips-not-miss.html/facebook-directory-of-pages-people-applications-and-groups"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4541" title="Facebook directory of pages, people, applications and groups" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Facebook-directory-of-pages-people-applications-and-groups.png" alt="" width="586" height="165" /></a></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800080;">#11  Download Your Facebook Information</span></h3>
<p></br></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">A new feature introduced by facebook to back-up your personal data: </p>
<blockquote><p><em>Go to Account -&gt; Account Settings -&gt; Download -&gt; Learn More</em></p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">It will take some time for facebook to generate all your data (photos, videos, wall posts, messages, friend lists etc). Once it is archived (in <em>.zip</em> format), you will receive an email notification to proceed with the download.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4542" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/10/16-facebook-tips-not-miss.html/request-download-for-facebook-profile-data"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4542" title="Request download for facebook profile data" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Request-download-for-facebook-profile-data.png" alt="" width="443" height="207" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">Your <em>.zip</em> files will not be containing photos uploaded by others, phonebook and friends’ email addresses, so if you’re in need of those data too, some recommended <a href="http://lifehacker.com/5672279/download-the-missing-pieces-of-data-from-facebook"><span style="color: #0000ff;">apps to download the missing data</span></a>.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800080;">#12  To Secure your facebook account</span></h3>
<p></br></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">To be notified when people hacked into your facebook account:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><em>Account Settings -&gt; Account Security -&gt; ON -&gt; Save</em> to receive notifications for login alert via email from new devices. You can now login and register your computer with a name, then start tracking.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4543" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/10/16-facebook-tips-not-miss.html/login-notifications-for-your-facebook-account-security"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4543" title="login notifications for your facebook account security" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/login-notifications-for-your-facebook-account-security.png" alt="" width="434" height="179" /></a></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800080;">#13 To Download Facebook Videos</span></h3>
<p></br></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">It is always easy to download a video hosted on Youtube, but what about those clips uploaded directly to facebook? This <a href="http://www.facebookvideodown.com/"><span style="color: #0000ff;">facebook video downloader</span></a> may be able to do the trick. So far it has been working well for all public videos.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4545" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/10/16-facebook-tips-not-miss.html/download-facebook-video"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4545" title="download facebook video" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/download-facebook-video.png" alt="download facebook video" width="543" height="131" /></a></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800080;">#14  To obtain facebook Info &amp; Facts:</span></h3>
<p></br></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Statistics</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?factsheet"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Company Factsheet</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?timeline"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Facebook Timeline</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.facebook.com/press/releases.php"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Facebook Press Releases</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://stories.facebook.com/"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Stories and experiences by facebook users</span></a></li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4544" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/10/16-facebook-tips-not-miss.html/facebook-stories"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4544" title="facebook stories" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/facebook-stories.png" alt="facebook stories" width="511" height="167" /></a></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800080;">#15  To Get Practical with your Facebook Page:</span></h3>
<p></br></p>
<ul>
<li>Enhance your facebook pages with <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/06/facebook-applications-enhance-fan-page.html"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Facebook applications</span></a></span>, but be selective.</li>
<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.wchingya.com/2009/10/13-facebook-applications-promote-your-blog.html"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Import blog feed to facebook page</span></a></span> for site visibility.</li>
<li>Improve admin and fans interactions with <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/10/contact-form-facebook-page-fbml.html"><span style="color: #0000ff;">contact forms</span></a></span>; setup <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/09/email-notification-facebook-page.html"><span style="color: #0000ff;">page notifications</span></a></span> for wall updates and <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/03/track-responses-notification-facebook-discussion-board.html"><span style="color: #0000ff;">discussion board</span></a></span>.</li>
<li>Improve profile- or page-to-page engagements with <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/06/status-tagging-successfully-facebook-pages.html"><span style="color: #0000ff;">status tagging</span></a></span></li>
<li>Secure your <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="../2010/10/official-facebook-page-employer-link.html"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Employer Link</span></a></span> with business page link on personal profile</li>
<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/08/protect-facebook-profile-business-page.html"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Protect your personal profile from business pages</span></a></span> with privacy settings</li>
<li>Social media integrations with <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.wchingya.com/2009/10/share-selective-tweets-facebook-pages.html"><span style="color: #0000ff;">selective tweets</span></a></span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/02/status-updates-scheduler-twitter-facebook-linkedin.html"><span style="color: #0000ff;">status updates schedulers</span></a></span> (with <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/02/6-points-to-ponder-before-using-automatic-status-updates.html"><span style="color: #0000ff;">points to ponder</span></a></span>) and <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/01/how-to-autopost-multiple-blogs-facebook-fan-page.html"><span style="color: #0000ff;">multiple blogs</span></a></span> import.</li>
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<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">NEW!</span> <span style="color: #800080;">#16  To Change your Page Name</span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">Great news for <strong>newly created facebook pages</strong> or business pages that have <strong>a small amount of fans</strong>, you can now edit your page name from: <em>Edit Page -&gt; Basic Information -&gt;  Name</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4550" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/10/16-facebook-tips-not-miss.html/change-your-facebook-page-name"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4550" title="change your facebook page name" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/change-your-facebook-page-name.png" alt="" width="451" height="193" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">Not all facebook pages are given this previlege and unsure how ‘few’ fans considered eligible for the name-change. But at least it’s a big step for facebook.</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">Now is Your Turn&#8230;</span></h2>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Why not share your special facebook tips and tricks? If there are enough contributions, I’ll produce a sequel for this article, along with a link love to either your facebook page or site, depends on relevancy. If you want more, be sure to follow my fan page’s discussion thread entitled  ‘<a href="http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=106236190962&amp;topic=13577"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Collections of Facebook Tips</span></a>’ for new updates.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Updated 09/12/2010 for New Profile Layout workaround (below old profile workaround).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Updated 23/02/2011 for New Profile, now you can have a much simpler way to add your Facebook Page. <strong>Just delete your job (that created a community page) and when you try to re-add it, you will be prompted to link to your managed facebook page.</strong> No extra steps required.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ff0000;">Updated 23/12/2011 for New Profile Timeline workaround (near to the bottom of the post).</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Don’t get me wrong, I love facebook. But there are times that I wish users are given more control over things to share on their own accounts. Especially after facebook page was introduced, users who are excited to share their professional backgrounds are constantly brainstorming to break through on a few matters: <a href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/08/protect-facebook-profile-business-page.html"><span style="color: #0000ff;">separating business from personal account</span></a>, <a href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/09/email-notification-facebook-page.html"><span style="color: #0000ff;">receive notifications for fan page</span></a> wall updates and most of all, how can we <a href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/05/promote-facebook-fan-page-personal-account.html"><span style="color: #0000ff;">improve page visibility on profile</span></a> effectively without being annoying?</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ff6600;"><strong>Getting exposed – Employer Link!</strong></span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">The easiest and most unharmful method is no doubt the ‘<em>Employers</em>’ section in <em>Info</em> tab. But there’s one MAJOR problem with that – no option to place our very own official page link there, instead a community page be created for each field inserted.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4377" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/10/official-facebook-page-employer-link.html/employers-link-reserved-for-facebook-community-page"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4377" title="employers link reserved for facebook community page" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/employers-link-reserved-for-facebook-community-page.jpg" alt="" width="418" height="283" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Imagine the frustration for unable to showcase our brand correctly with an authentic page. But now a new found fix will change all that &#8211; thanks to a Firefox add-on named Web Developer, and you don&#8217;t even need to stick with firefox after this, only during the setup.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ff6600;"><strong>Web Developer – the magic plugin to fix employer link</strong></span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">If you do not own a firefox browser, <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Web Developer</span></a> will give you enough reasons to install it for the sake of your business page visibility. This add-on is for firefox only but final result will work on all browser types. Web Developer adds a toolbar for web development purposes, but no fear as inserting a page ID will get things done with no coding complications at all.</p>
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<h2><span style="color: #ff6600;"><strong>How to Add Official Facebook Page Link to Profile &#8216;Employer&#8217;<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Here comes the best part,</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>For Older Profile Layout (before upgrade):</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">1.       Firstly, <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US"><span style="color: #0000ff;">install firefox</span></a> if you haven’t and run the setup.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><strong><em>Special Note:</em></strong> Good news as <a href="http://www.google.com/chrome"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Google Chrome</span></a> also comes with the <a href="https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/bfbameneiokkgbdmiekhjnmfkcnldhhm?hl=en-US"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Web Developer extension</span></a> and it works exactly the same way!</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">2.       Next, install <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Web Developer</span></a> to your firefox.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">3.      Restart the browser as instructed and you will notice a toolbar appears on top of the browser.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4378" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/10/official-facebook-page-employer-link.html/web-developer-toolbar-installed-to-firefox"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4378" title="web developer toolbar installed to firefox" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/web-developer-toolbar-installed-to-firefox.jpg" alt="" width="602" height="67" /></a></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">4.       Now go to your <a href="http://www.facebook.com/socialbloggingtracker"><span style="color: #0000ff;">official fan page</span></a> and locate your Page ID.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4379" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/10/official-facebook-page-employer-link.html/find-out-your-facebook-page-id"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4379" title="find out your facebook page ID" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/find-out-your-facebook-page-ID.png" alt="" width="514" height="68" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">If you already claimed your vanity URL or username, then retrieve your official page ID by mouse over ‘Edit Page’:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4380" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/10/official-facebook-page-employer-link.html/mouse-over-edit-page-to-reveal-official-page-id"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4380" title="mouse over edit page to reveal official page ID" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/mouse-over-edit-page-to-reveal-official-page-ID.png" alt="" width="385" height="386" /></a></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">5.       Let&#8217;s go to your personal profile now : <em>Profile -&gt; Info tab -&gt; Edit</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4381" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/10/official-facebook-page-employer-link.html/go-to-info-and-click-edit-in-your-profile"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4381" title="go to Info and click Edit in your profile" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/go-to-Info-and-click-Edit-in-your-profile.png" alt="" width="503" height="206" /></a></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">6.       Select ‘<em>Education and Work</em>’ -&gt; look for &#8216;<em>Employer</em>&#8216; field box (with ‘<em>Add Another Job</em>’ below it).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4382" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/10/official-facebook-page-employer-link.html/look-for-employer-filed-box-in-education-and-work"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4382" title="look for employer filed box in education and work" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/look-for-employer-filed-box-in-education-and-work.png" alt="" width="384" height="103" /></a></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">7.       Now at your browser, look for the Web Developer toolbar and select <em>Forms</em> -&gt; <em>Display Form Details</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4383" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/10/official-facebook-page-employer-link.html/display-form-details-in-web-developer-tool-from-firefox-browser"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4383" title="display form details in Web Developer tool from firefox browser" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/display-form-details-in-Web-Developer-tool-from-firefox-browser.png" alt="" width="267" height="103" /></a></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">8.       Do not be taken aback by the scary looking codes displayed to you. Instead, try to identify the location of this code:</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><code>&lt;input name=”work[employer][id][0]”&gt;</code></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">Once you have found it, insert your page ID next to the grey box as shown below:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4389" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/10/official-facebook-page-employer-link.html/insert-your-page-id-in-the-grey-box"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4389" title="insert your page ID in the grey box" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/insert-your-page-ID-in-the-grey-box.png" alt="" width="595" height="67" /></a></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">9.       Turn off codes by deselecting ‘<em>Display Form Details</em>’ on your browser and fill in the rest of the details -&gt; <em>Save Changes</em>. You can add as many jobs as you prefer by repeating step #7-9.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4390" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/10/official-facebook-page-employer-link.html/your-facebook-official-fan-page-displayed-as-the-employer-link"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4390" title="your facebook official fan page displayed as the employer link" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/your-facebook-official-fan-page-displayed-as-the-employer-link.png" alt="" width="577" height="295" /></a></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">10.   Go back to your <em>Info</em> tab and admire the result!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4391" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/10/official-facebook-page-employer-link.html/display-your-official-business-page-as-employer"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4391" title="display your official business page as employer" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/display-your-official-business-page-as-employer.png" alt="" width="407" height="190" /></a></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">For New Profile Layout:</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Updated (09/12/2010)</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Now recently facebook had recommended their users to <a href="http://www.facebook.com/about/profile/"><span style="color: #0000ff;">upgrade their personal profile</span></a> to new layout. This method still works but with a slight twist at the Page ID insertion part. I would recommend you to change the employer link in the old profile first before upgrade to save the trouble. Or if you had done so, then <strong>follow exactly from Step 1 &#8211; 6 above</strong>, then continue the rest here:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">7. Type in your Page Name in the Employer box, click &#8216;Add&#8217; (your page name)&#8217;.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4902" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/10/official-facebook-page-employer-link.html/add-your-page-name-in-new-profile"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4902" title="add your page name in new profile" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/add-your-page-name-in-new-profile.png" alt="add your page name in new profile" width="441" height="64" /></a></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4904" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/10/official-facebook-page-employer-link.html/add-your-official-page-name-in-employer-link"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4904" title="add your  official page name in employer link" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/add-your-official-page-name-in-employer-link.png" alt="add your official page name in employer link" width="600" height="321" /></a></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Sometimes facebook will load the correct thumbnail of your official page. When that happens, you can stop here and shout for joy! If instead of your page but a briefcase thumbnail appears (community page is created), then go on with the rest of the setups by going to your browser and select:</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>Forms -&gt; Display Form Details</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">8. Again, try to locate the location of this code:</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><code>&lt;input name=”work[employer][id][0]”&gt;</code></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">Once you have found it, change the community page ID to your official page&#8217;s in the grey box:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4389" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/10/official-facebook-page-employer-link.html/insert-your-page-id-in-the-grey-box"></a><a rel="attachment wp-att-4899" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/10/official-facebook-page-employer-link.html/replace-the-input-name-with-your-own-page-id"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4899" title="replace the input name with your own page ID" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/replace-the-input-name-with-your-own-page-ID.png" alt="replace the input name with your own page ID" width="531" height="137" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">Click &#8216;<em>Add Job</em>&#8216; (or &#8216;<em>Save Changes</em>&#8216; if you are editing) to confirm your change.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><strong><em>Optional:</strong></em> Sometimes if the page is not updated correctly, try to add details to your Job, for example setting the Time Period -&gt; click &#8216;<em>Add Job</em>&#8216; (or &#8216;<em>Save Changes</em>&#8216;). You can always remove them later after you had successfully added your official facebook page:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4905" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/10/official-facebook-page-employer-link.html/add-time-period-if-your-page-name-is-not-updated"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4905" title="add time period if your page name is not updated" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/add-time-period-if-your-page-name-is-not-updated.png" alt="add time period if your page name is not updated" width="449" height="161" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">Your official page should be added correctly now.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 60px;">
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">For New Profile Timeline:</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Updated (23/12/2011)</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">For the most recent upgrade to Profile Timeline, slightly different for where the employer link is located and the code as well. Refer to the instructions below after you had installed the <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Web Developer Add-on</span></a>. I&#8217;m using Firefox 3.6.22 for this example: </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">1. Go to your Profile Timeline -> Update Info (or click ‘About’) to access your work and education details.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><a href="http://images.wchingya.com//2010/10/2-ways-to-edit-facebook-employer-link.jpg"><img src="http://images.wchingya.com//2010/10/2-ways-to-edit-facebook-employer-link.jpg" alt="2 ways to edit facebook employer link" title="2 ways to edit facebook employer link" width="487" height="155" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5728" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">2. Add your work by typing the name of your business page. Sometimes instead of the Page’s full name, try its partial name so it will appear in the drop down: </p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><a href="http://images.wchingya.com//2010/10/partial-name-to-find-business-page-in-drop-down.jpg"><img src="http://images.wchingya.com//2010/10/partial-name-to-find-business-page-in-drop-down.jpg" alt="partial name to find business page in drop down" title="partial name to find business page in drop down" width="383" height="144" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5729" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">3. When that’s not working, use the <em>Web Developer -> Forms -> Display Form Details</em>. Then locate the code <code>&lt;input name=”employer_id”&gt;</code> to insert your Page ID in the grey box:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><a href="http://images.wchingya.com//2010/10/insert-facebook-page-id.jpg"><img src="http://images.wchingya.com//2010/10/insert-facebook-page-id.jpg" alt="insert facebook page id" title="insert facebook page id" width="468" height="61" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5730" /></a></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ff6600;"><strong>Extra: </strong></span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Major props to <a href="http://jonochs.com/how-to-fix-your-employer-links-in-facebook"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Jon</span></a> for discovering the fix for old profile layout that saved our day! But there are a few things I came across during the setup as well &#8211; the ‘position’ you filled in Employer section will be directed to a community page (of course), just as how the employer link reacts before the change.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4392" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/10/official-facebook-page-employer-link.html/position-in-your-employer-link-will-be-directed-to-community-page"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4392" title="position in your employer link will be directed to community page" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/position-in-your-employer-link-will-be-directed-to-community-page.png" alt="" width="391" height="105" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">So make sure you select the <strong>best position title</strong> that describes your post. If needed, use the same method to control where the link is been directed to.</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ff6600;"><strong>Now is Your Turn&#8230; </strong></span></h2>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop --><p style="text-align: justify;">Ever came across a &#8216;<a href="http://www.facebook.com/SocialBloggingTracker?v=app_6009294086"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Contact Us</span></a>&#8216; form on some facebook pages that you wish you had one too? Look no more for today I am going to share with you some fascinating web forms that are compatible to be embedded in facebook page using <a href="http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=4949752878&#038;b"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Static FBML</span></a>. No worries if you had never touched FBML in your whole life. All you need to do is to copy and paste the codes generated to your FBML tab and you&#8217;re good to go.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">But before that, let&#8217;s take a look&#8230; </p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">Why a Facebook Page Needs a Contact Form?</span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Simply put,</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li>to encourage inquiries about your work</li>
<li>to contact page admin for urgent matters</li>
<li>to allow interactions without exposing admin&#8217;s personal profile (<a href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/08/protect-facebook-profile-business-page.html"><span style="color: #0000ff;">separate page from profile</span></a>)</li>
<li>to deal with complaints effectively (brand management) through one-to-one communication</li>
<li>to improve business / fans conversion rate</li>
<li>to collect feedback about a particular subject or service</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Fixing up a contact form is not compulsory, but it serves a great purpose in listening to individual thoughts and ensures two-way communication between page admin and a fan.</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">4 Online Form Builders for Your Business Page</span></h2>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Although these form builders are offering paid services, but here I will be highlighting on the features given to FREE account instead (everyone loves freebies, right?). If you wish to know more about their paid account, kindly refer to their respective Pricing/Plans. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Without further ado, let&#8217;s take a look at these web forms and their layouts:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>(Note: Remember to <a href="http://www.faebook.org/facebook-101how-to-setup-static-fbml-for-your-facebook-page"><span style="color: #0000ff;">add Static FBML to your page</span></a> before embedding the form)</em></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;">#1 	<a href="http://www.freedback.com"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Freedback</span></a></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4318" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/10/contact-form-facebook-page-fbml.html/freedback-contact-form-on-facebook-page"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4318" title="Freedback contact form on facebook page" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Freedback-contact-form-on-facebook-page.png" alt="" width="518" height="422" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><strong><span style="color: #800080;"><em>Free Account Features</em> ~</span></strong><br />
<span style="color: #800080;">No. of Forms:</span> <span style="color: #008000;">1</span><br />
<span style="color: #800080;">Data Export (CSV/Excel):</span> <span style="color: #ff0000;">NO</span><br />
<span style="color: #800080;">Ad Link:</span> <span style="color: #008000;">YES</span><br />
<span style="color: #800080;">Pricing / Plans:</span> <a href="http://www.freedback.com/features.php"><span style="color: #0000ff;">http://www.freedback.com/features.php</span></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><em>Freedback</em> was the first form I tried on my page. The layout is clean and the setup process is straight forward. Just add in your questions and adjust their positioning however you wish. You can set &#8216;Required&#8217; for must-answer questions, but they will not be indicated in the fields (as shown in the example above). To avoid fans been redirected back and forth due to an incomplete form, it&#8217;s advisable to mark it yourself. All edits made to the form will need you to update the codes manually in FBML tab. Once there’s a submission you’ll be notified via Email instantly, along with a record kept in <em>Freedback</em> database (non-exportable).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4319" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/10/contact-form-facebook-page-fbml.html/add-questions-to-freedback-contact-form"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4319" title="Add questions to Freedback contact form" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Add-questions-to-Freedback-contact-form.png" alt="" width="331" height="247" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><em>Freedback</em> allows you to set a landing page after the form is submitted. There may be a delay while waiting for the form to be submitted, advise fans to wait for it then click ‘Continue’ to proceed to the landing page.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4320" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/10/contact-form-facebook-page-fbml.html/landing-page-after-freedback-form-submission"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4320" title="landing page after Freedback form submission" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/landing-page-after-Freedback-form-submission.png" alt="" width="535" height="216" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">I find <em>Freedback</em> very similar to <em><a href="https://www.response-o-matic.com"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Response-o-matic</span></a></em>. If you&#8217;re interested to know about the setup, kindly refer to Kim&#8217;s write up on how to <a href="http://www.kimwoodbridge.com/how-to-create-a-simple-contact-form-for-a-facebook-fan-page"><span style="color: #0000ff;">setup <em>Response-o-matic</em></span><em> </em></a> for a facebook page.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;">#2 	<a href="http://www.123contactform.com"><span style="color: #0000ff;">123 Contact Form</span></a></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4321" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/10/contact-form-facebook-page-fbml.html/123-contact-form-on-facebook-page"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4321" title="123 Contact Form on facebook page" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/123-Contact-Form-on-facebook-page.png" alt="" width="500" height="464" /></a><br /></br></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><strong><span style="color: #800080;"><em>Free Account Features</em> ~</span></strong><br />
<span style="color: #800080;">No. of Forms:</span> <span style="color: #008000;">5</span><br />
<span style="color: #800080;">Data Export (CSV/Excel):</span> <span style="color: #ff0000;">NO</span><br />
<span style="color: #800080;">Ad/Brand Link:</span> <span style="color: #008000;">YES</span><br />
<span style="color: #800080;">Pricing / Plans:</span> <a href="http://www.123contactform.com/serviceplan.html"><span style="color: #0000ff;">http://www.123contactform.com/serviceplan.html</span></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><em>123 Contact Form</em> has a slight advantage with 5 forms for free account. Plus, it shows the &#8216;Required&#8217; field clearly, along with a verification field built within the form itself instead of a new page (spam control is a common feature for web forms). During sign up, page admin requires to fill up (extra) mandatory fields such as Website and Country. It supports non-English forms as well. Here is the overview of the form editor and form manager:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4323" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/10/contact-form-facebook-page-fbml.html/form-editor-for-123-contact-form"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4323" title="form editor for 123 contact form" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/form-editor-for-123-contact-form.png" alt="" width="664" height="308" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4324" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/10/contact-form-facebook-page-fbml.html/123-contact-form-manager-to-display-created-forms"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4324" title="123 contact form manager to display created forms" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/123-contact-form-manager-to-display-created-forms.png" alt="" width="659" height="114" /></a></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;">#3 	<a href="http://allforms.mailjol.net"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Allforms</span></a></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4325" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/10/contact-form-facebook-page-fbml.html/allforms-contact-form-on-facebook-page"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4325" title="Allforms contact form on facebook page" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Allforms-contact-form-on-facebook-page.png" alt="" width="498" height="389" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #800080;"><strong><em>Free Account Features</em> ~</strong></span><br />
<span style="color: #800080;">No. of Forms:</span> <span style="color: #008000;">Multiple forms (with limit)</span><br />
<span style="color: #800080;">Data Export (CSV/Excel):</span> <span style="color: #ff0000;">NO</span><br />
<span style="color: #800080;">Ad Link:</span> <span style="color: #ff0000;">NO</span><br />
<span style="color: #800080;">Pricing / Plans:</span> <a href="http://allforms.mailjol.net"><span style="color: #0000ff;">http://allforms.mailjol.net</span></a><br />
<span style="color: #800080;">Advantages:</span> <span style="color: #008000;">Low Price for paid account, Live Support, Form interface</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #008000;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4326" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/10/contact-form-facebook-page-fbml.html/form-listed-on-your-allforms-panel"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4326" title="form listed on your Allforms panel" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/form-listed-on-your-Allforms-panel.png" alt="" width="468" height="246" /></a><br />
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<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">Despite with a congested setup interface, <em>Allforms</em> has quite a few attractive features: no ads display, low cost and comes with a form interface (see example). It supports non-english forms. Page admin can either use existing form layouts provided or import their own forms to be processed and further customized (advantage to those with CSS and HTML knowledge). You can adjust the color, form size and field positioning easily:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4327" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/10/contact-form-facebook-page-fbml.html/easy-form-creator-and-preview-for-allforms"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4327" title="easy form creator and preview for Allforms" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/easy-form-creator-and-preview-for-Allforms.png" alt="" width="615" height="363" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">The cost for <em>Allforms</em> is so much cheaper comparing to other form builder with only $10.72/year. Frankly, there are not much difference between paid and free account except on data storage (365 days vs. 30 days) and the availability to remove spam control for paid account. Overall, <em>Allforms</em> is highly recommended when it comes to functionality (free account) and cost effectiveness (paid account). </p>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;">#4 	<a href="http://www.jotform.com"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Jotform</span></a></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4328" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/10/contact-form-facebook-page-fbml.html/jotform-contact-form-on-business-page"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4328" title="Jotform contact form on business page" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Jotform-contact-form-on-business-page.png" alt="" width="501" height="480" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #800080;"><strong><em>Free Account Features</em> ~</strong></span><br />
<span style="color: #800080;">No. of Forms:</span> <span style="color: #008000;">Unlimited (max: 10MB)</span><br />
<span style="color: #800080;">Data Export (CSV/Excel):</span> <span style="color: #008000;">YES</span><br />
<span style="color: #800080;">Ad Link:</span> <span style="color: #ff6600;">NO</span><br />
<span style="color: #800080;">Pricing / Plans:</span> <a href="http://www.jotform.com/pricing"><span style="color: #0000ff;">http://www.jotform.com/pricing</span></a><br />
<span style="color: #800080;">Advantages:</span> <span style="color: #008000;">Full features as in paid account (limited by space), Sub-header, Drag and drop interface</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">How can anyone not like <em>Jotform</em>?:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><strong>a)	Does not Cripple Features on Free Accounts</strong><br />
Page admin can enjoy all features as paid account: data-export, no advertisement links, unlimited forms, auto responders etc. The only thing that separates paid from free account are the account size and amount of submissions per month. Fair enough.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><strong>b)	Drag and Drop Interface</strong><br />
Enjoy its sophisticated canvas with drag and drop &#8211; user friendly when it comes to adjusting form style and setups.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4329" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/10/contact-form-facebook-page-fbml.html/drag-and-drop-form-tools-on-jotform-contact-form-setup"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4329" title="drag and drop form tools on Jotform contact form setup" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/drag-and-drop-form-tools-on-Jotform-contact-form-setup.png" alt="" width="605" height="442" /></a></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><strong>c)	Account Status at the Sidebar</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">A monitoring tab is given so you can keep an eye on your submissions and upload space to plan ahead. Maintain the space within 10MB by deleting your data after exported them (if you are to maintain in free account). If you feel like the space is not enough, upgrade it to meet your submission requirements then downgrade back again once you don’t need it. Super convenient.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4330" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/10/contact-form-facebook-page-fbml.html/account-limit-monitoring"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4330" title="account limit monitoring" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/account-limit-monitoring.png" alt="" width="200" height="259" /></a></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><strong>d)	Customizable Thank You Page</strong><br />
I love this! Different from other online forms, you get to personalize your very own Thank You page with images, font styles and many more options provided by the editor.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4331" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/10/contact-form-facebook-page-fbml.html/customize-thank-you-page-with-links-and-font-styles"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4331" title="customize thank you page with links and font styles" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/customize-thank-you-page-with-links-and-font-styles.png" alt="" width="551" height="214" /></a></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><strong>e)	Export Data as CSV or Excel</strong><br />
By far the only form builder I found with data-exporting feature for FREE account. This is the major attraction for <em>Jotform</em> and enough to win me over. Simply amazing!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4332" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/10/contact-form-facebook-page-fbml.html/example-of-data-export-as-excel-for-jotform"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4332" title="example of data export as excel for Jotform" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/example-of-data-export-as-excel-for-Jotform.png" alt="" width="640" height="84" /></a></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><strong>f)	Embed Code for Facebook Page</strong><br />
Once the form is ready, you can embed it to your facebook page through either one of the steps below:<br />
-	Share Form &gt; Advanced Options &gt; Social Network &gt; Facebook<br />
-	Source Code &gt; Advanced Options &gt; Social Network &gt; Facebook</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4333" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/10/contact-form-facebook-page-fbml.html/embed-code-for-facebook-via-static-fbml"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4333" title="embed code for Facebook via Static FBML" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/embed-code-for-Facebook-via-Static-FBML.png" alt="" width="647" height="262" /></a></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;">#5 	Others</h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">There are of course, other form builders that may work similar, for example, <em>Formsmarts</em> is said to be allowing <a href="http://formsmarts.com/facebook-form-widget-add-form-to-facebook-page-or-profile-in-static-fbml-box"><span style="color: #0000ff;">form-embed for fan pages</span></a> but I have no luck to review it:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4334" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/10/contact-form-facebook-page-fbml.html/formsmarts"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4334" title="formsmarts" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/formsmarts.png" alt="" width="466" height="123" /></a></p>
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<h2 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">Now Is Your Turn…</span></h2>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Do you use Contact Form for your facebook fan page? If not what other ways do you communicate with fans besides wall and discussion board? Love to hear your thoughts.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have hoped everyday that Facebook will grant us the convenience to receive email notifications for our business pages updates. Unfortunately, it seems like facebook has no intention to incorporate this feature yet: Bummer, pardon me for not being tolerate when it comes to business page notifications. There has not been a clear reason given [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop --><p style="text-align: justify;">I have hoped everyday that Facebook will grant us the convenience to receive email notifications for our business pages updates. Unfortunately, it seems like facebook has no intention to incorporate this feature yet:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4233" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/09/email-notification-facebook-page.html/help-center-response-on-notification-for-facebook-page"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4233" title="help center response on notification for facebook page" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/help-center-response-on-notification-for-facebook-page.png" alt="" width="482" height="134" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Bummer, pardon me for not being tolerate when it comes to business page notifications. There has not been a clear reason given why Facebook is hiding (or saving) this feature. Could there be a surprise for us in near future? Your guess is as good as mine.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It is not logical yet we have no choice, but to depend on external services and a few tricks to temporarily monitor our page activities. I have tested a few methods and now using 2-3 of them for my facebook page. They are not perfect, some have delays and no way to compare with Facebook’s very own notification system that we&#8217;re enjoying in our personal profile, but if you’re desperately needed an alternative, maybe some of the info here can help:</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">Email Notification for New Posts &amp; Comments</span></h2>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;">1.	<a href="http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=103658203021179"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Page Notifier</span></a> – Facebook Application</h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4234" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/09/email-notification-facebook-page.html/page-notifier"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4234" title="page notifier" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/page-notifier.png" alt="" width="180" height="176" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><em>Page Notifier</em> alerts page admin <strong>new wall posts and threaded comments from fans</strong>. I have been testing this service for a day or two now and thrilled to say follow-up comments can be tracked easily and promptly. I get to respond and followup on questions immediately, thanks to the<strong> trial version provided (96 scans/day)</strong>:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4236" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/09/email-notification-facebook-page.html/page-notifier-trial-period"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4236" title="page notifier trial period" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/page-notifier-trial-period.png" alt="" width="564" height="71" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">Here is how the email notification looks like whenever there’s a new post or comment on the Wall:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4235" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/09/email-notification-facebook-page.html/email-notification-from-page-notifier-of-a-new-comment"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4235" title="email notification from page notifier of a new comment" src="http://www.wchingya.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/09/email-notification-from-page-notifier-of-a-new-comment.png" alt="" width="544" height="160" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4240" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/09/email-notification-facebook-page.html/email-notification-from-page-notifier-of-a-new-wall-post"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4240" title="email notification from page notifier of a new wall post" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/email-notification-from-page-notifier-of-a-new-wall-post.png" alt="" width="522" height="69" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">What I love about Page Notifier:</span></strong><</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">Page admins are notified with <strong>follow-up comments regardless how old was the wall post</strong>. You can add multiple pages to <em>Page Notifier</em> as long you can get a hold of their page IDs.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4237" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/09/email-notification-facebook-page.html/page-notifier-settings-to-add-page"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4237" title="page notifier settings to add page" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/page-notifier-settings-to-add-page.png" alt="" width="534" height="125" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Opps&#8230; BUT you should know:</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">I think this applies to all types of notifier &#8211; your facebook page must be public viewable (<strong>no age or country restrictions</strong>) otherwise this app cannot access your page to retrieve the updates. Also, after the trial your account will be downgraded to <strong>Free Version that allows one-time-scan per 24 hours</strong> unless you’re willing to purchase for more frequent scans and emails. To get 15 minutes/scan you need to pay up to $14.95/month. Yes, I wish this service is F.O.C too.</p>
<p></br></p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">Email Notification for New Postings</span></h2>
<p></br></p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">2.	<a href="http://fanpagenotifier.com"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Fan Page Notifier</span></a> &#8211; Web Service</h3>
<p></br></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4238" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/09/email-notification-facebook-page.html/fan-page-notifier"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4238" title="fan page notifier" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/fan-page-notifier.png" alt="" width="329" height="65" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">Similar to <em>Page Notifier</em>, you will be informed whenever there’s a <strong>new wall post from fans</strong>. Good thing about it is that not only you get to follow up on your own managed pages but your liked-pages too. It is optional to set either one or both notifications (admins and fans) as shown below:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4239" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/09/email-notification-facebook-page.html/notification-settings-for-admin-or-fan-posting"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4239" title="notification settings for admin or fan posting" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/notification-settings-for-admin-or-fan-posting.jpg" alt="" width="556" height="118" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">What I love about Fan Page Notifier:</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">I have been using <em>Fan Page Notifier</em> for about a month now. For the entire August it has been right on time with new wall posts (<strong>scan frequently</strong>). <strong>No fee required</strong> so you can enjoy this service freely.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4242" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/09/email-notification-facebook-page.html/fan-page-notifier-emails-notification-for-new-wall-post"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4242" title="fan page notifier emails notification for new wall post" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/fan-page-notifier-emails-notification-for-new-wall-post.png" alt="" width="600" height="161" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">By monitoring liked pages, <em>Fan Page Notifier</em> actually works well as an alternative to a recent <a href="http://www.facebook.com/SocialBloggingTracker?v=wall&amp;story_fbid=426581135962&amp;ref=mf"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Facebook updating issue in News Feed</span></a>, besides using facebook lists.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Opps&#8230; BUT you should know:</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><em>Fan Page Notifier</em> <strong>does not collect follow-up responses</strong> in a post (<strong>only</strong> <strong>New wall posts</strong>) so you need to check back regularly, or utilize &#8216;<em>like</em>&#8216; option (Method #3) for a better page interaction. In early September, I had missed a few updates but after I re-subscribe, everything works fine again. Considering it’s a free service, I can tolerate a few ‘misses’ as long it’s not overly done.</p>
<p><em><span style="color: #993300;">Suggested Read:</span></em> <a href="http://www.wchingya.com/2011/02/facebook-apps-notifications-2011.html"><span style="color: #0000ff;">2 Excellent Facebook Page Apps to Get Email Notifications (2011)</span></a><br />
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<h2 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">Email Notification for ‘Liked’ Items</span></h2>
<p></br></p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">3.	‘Like’ Option  – A Manual Way</h3>
<p></br></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4243" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/09/email-notification-facebook-page.html/email-notification-to-track-follow-up-comments-via-like"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4243" title="email notification to track follow up comments via Like" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/email-notification-to-track-follow-up-comments-via-Like.jpg" alt="" width="513" height="340" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">Many of you already know how ‘<em>like</em>’ option can track follow up comments.  Usually it works perfectly for manual posting in a facebook page. You can ‘<em>unlike</em>’ a post to stop receiving upcoming comments (unless you have commented then there&#8217;s no way to unsubscribe). Make sure you have <a href="http://www.facebook.com/editaccount.php?notifications"><span style="color: #0000ff;">checked through your notifications</span></a> especially for ‘comments after you’ in a Note, Video, Link and wall comments for it to work.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">The downside of this method is you need to ‘<em>like</em>’ all your status updates manually. Not really convenient for <a href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/02/status-updates-scheduler-twitter-facebook-linkedin.html"><span style="color: #0000ff;">scheduled updates</span></a> and <a href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/01/how-to-autopost-multiple-blogs-facebook-fan-page.html"><span style="color: #0000ff;">auto-published</span></a> Blog RSS Feed via <a href="http://www.wchingya.com/2009/10/13-facebook-applications-promote-your-blog.html"><span style="color: #0000ff;">facebook applications</span></a>.</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">A Summary of Page Notifications (at selected time)</span></h2>
<p></br></p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">4.	<a href="http://www.facebook.com/NutshellMail"><span style="color: #0000ff;">NutshellMail</span></a> – Facebook Application</h3>
<p></br></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4244" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/09/email-notification-facebook-page.html/nutshellmail"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4244" title="NutshellMail" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/NutshellMail.png" alt="" width="185" height="189" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><em>NutshellMail</em> is a managing tool for various social networks such as <em>Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube</em> and <em>MySpace</em>. By adding it to your facebook page, your fans can subscribe to your page updates when they go to <em>Newsletter tab -&gt; Click here to continue</em>:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4245" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/09/email-notification-facebook-page.html/nutshellmail-newsletter-tab-for-business-page"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4245" title="Nutshellmail Newsletter tab for business page" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Nutshellmail-Newsletter-tab-for-business-page.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="274" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">As a page admin, you can subscribe to <em>Nutshellmail</em> for a summary of page notifications. Customize the email delivery (time), sections and your managed pages:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4246" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/09/email-notification-facebook-page.html/set-notifications-for-nutshellmail"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4246" title="set notifications for Nutshellmail" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/set-notifications-for-Nutshellmail.jpg" alt="" width="389" height="142" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4247" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/09/email-notification-facebook-page.html/select-page-to-receive-email-notification"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4247" title="select page to receive email notification" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/select-page-to-receive-email-notification.jpg" alt="" width="538" height="173" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><em>Nutshellmail</em> may not be an instant notifier when it comes to page activities, but I see it as a checking-list. I can set the delivery at regular intervals, make sure I have responded to all page comments as required.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4248" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/09/email-notification-facebook-page.html/notification-from-business-page"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4248" title="notification from business page" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/notification-from-business-page.jpg" alt="" width="573" height="101" /></a></p>
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<h2 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">Email Notification for Discussion Board</span></h2>
<p></br></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This method utilizes <em>Google Reader</em> and <em>Feed Notifier</em> to track <a href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/03/track-responses-notification-facebook-discussion-board.html"><span style="color: #0000ff;">new responses in Facebook discussion board</span></a> &#8211; it is explained in earlier post so feel free to give it a read. Process can be a little cumbersome but thanks to these external services, page admins can now deal with an active discussion board.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4249" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/09/email-notification-facebook-page.html/updated-discussion-thread-via-google-reader"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4249" title="updated discussion thread via Google Reader" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/updated-discussion-thread-via-Google-Reader.jpg" alt="" width="539" height="171" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">
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<h2><span style="color: #ff6600;">Why Email Notification Is Important for Page Admins?</span></h2>
<p></br></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">It may be wishful thinking that I hope Facebook would see this, but as page admins, we need page notification :</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li> to be responsive when dealing with fans requests.</li>
<li>to filter spammy and inappropriate content from wall posts.</li>
<li> instead of checking back the page once every few minutes, notification can be a real time-saver (avoid time-suck).</li>
<li>to deal with conflict asap to protect business branding &amp; fans interests</li>
<li> to respond to offers and job opportunities immediately</li>
<li> to improve fans interactions and relationship-building</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I could go on but I’ll save the rest for the commenters. It is our hope to enjoy this facility one day without relying on third party applications (reliability and ZERO monthly charges).</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">Now Is Your Turn…</span></h2>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">How do you monitor your page activity for now? Are you willing to pay for receiving email notifications? Share your thoughts.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a guest post by Srinivas Rao, the editor in Chief of Flightser. He writes about personal development at The Skool of Life and is the host of BlogcastFM, a podcast to help you take your blog to the next level. Two months ago the CEO of our company asked me to take the [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop --><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000080;"><em>This is a guest post by Srinivas Rao, the editor in Chief of <a href="http://www.flightster.com" rel="follow">Flightser</a>. He writes about personal development at <a href="http://www.theskooloflife.com" rel="follow">The Skool of Life</a> and is the host of <a href="http://www.blogcastfm.com">BlogcastFM,</a> a podcast to help you take your blog to the next level.</em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong> </strong>Two months ago the CEO of our company asked me to take the lead on launching and growing a brand new travel blog. Flightster, is currently functioning only as a blog and will eventually become a fully functional flight booking engine within the next several months. Starting solely as a blog has shown us the tremendous power that a blog can have in building brand awareness.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4191" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/09/case-study-new-blog-growth.html/flightster-case-study-2"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4191" title="flightster case study" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/flightster-case-study1.jpg" alt="" width="561" height="706" /></a></p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">Objectives:</span></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify;">
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li>Build Brand awareness</li>
<li>Leverage social media to Connect with the Online Travel Community</li>
</ul>
<h2 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">Building the Blog</span></h2>
<p></br></p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>#1  Budget</strong></span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong> </strong>One of the biggest mistakes I’ve seen companies make is to assume that the social media is “free.” Social media should be treated just as other marketing channels are. It should have a budget allocated for it. Our industry is heavily driven by extremely high PPC costs that can get up to 6 figures a month. My boss allocated $2500 a month for me to run the Flighster blog, which is an extremely small percentage of the overall marketing budget.  However,  $2500.00 is a substantial budget to run a blog if you know how to stretch it.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>#2  Writers</strong></span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Putting together a team of writers was my first order of business once I was put in charge of starting the blog. Initially, I reached out to writers from other well established travel blogs in the hopes of getting them to write for Flightster. I got no responses except one letting me know that the writer had been locked into an exclusive with another popular travel blog. After that I decided to tap into my personal network. This is where the power of having my own blog became very apparent. If the person in charge of your corporate blog has his or her own blog and it has a following, put that person in charge of your company blog. The greatest asset that person brings to the table is a network of contacts with an established online presence.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">My boss gave me the go ahead to allocate $75-100 per post for contributions, so I reached out to the best writers I could find in my network. I looked at people who I had interviewed for my podcast and those whose blogs I read on a daily basis. Below are the main criteria I looked for in a team of writers:</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li>Good writers with established audiences who loved them</li>
<li>Blogs with Roughly 1000 Subscribers</li>
<li>Bloggers who were very active on Twitter</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I reached out to a popular location independent blogger as my first step and I recruited the remaining writers based on his referrals, with only one exception who I hand picked after reading his blog. One simple way to look at this was <em>“If I wouldn’t subscribe to their blog myself, then I wouldn’t hire them as a writer.”</em></p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>#3  Editorial Policy</strong></span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Prior to the launch of Flighster, I spent several months looking at many corporate blogs. When I compared them to the individual blogs I read on almost a daily basis, I noticed a major difference. Individual blogs had an interesting voice and sounded human. They were filled with comments and they kept readers coming back for more. Most company blogs sounded like a marketing brochure and they were incredibly boring. My solution was simple, a very loose editorial policy. If what made my writers popular on their own blogs was their writing, then I saw no reason to place many restrictions on them.  I knew this would allow them to write the most interesting content possible.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>#4  Timeless Content</strong></span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I was given only one restriction from our CEO and that was to produce content that was timeless. You’ve heard this phrase “content is king” over and over again.   By producing content that is “timeless” we could significantly increase the amount of time people spent on the site looking at our content.  Timeless content is what gets shared over and over again.  For many bloggers it’s not uncommon to have something popular they wrote over a year ago shared on twitter or Facebook, so I recommend companies take this same approach to content.</p>
<p></br></p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">Marketing the Blog</span></h2>
<p></br></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">After assembling the writing team, I started to think about the most efficient ways to market a blog. Growing my personal blog had taken over a year before it was really on anybody’s radar. With Flightster,  I was determined to do this much faster so I decided to narrow my efforts down to 3 channels.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Channel 1 : The Audiences of the Writers</strong></span></span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">When I started the blog, I assumed that the audience that the writers brought with them would my greatest source of traffic. Part of my thought process in hiring them was that the marketing was already built into the content since I assumed their audience would follow them. As a result, we decided to sponsor the <a href="http://waybelowstatusquo.com/">Way Below Status Quo Tour</a>, a road trip across America where 3 bloggers were going to meet all of their readers in person. In exchange for the sponsorship, we asked for 3 posts a week on the Flightster Blog about the various destinations they were visiting. The cost was $100 per post.  Given that their readers that they were meeting were also bloggers and people with an active online presence it provided yet another way for our message to spread. While it did give us a, nice initial kickstart, I knew that it was going to take a bit more to make the blog grow.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Channel 2: Facebook</span></strong></span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">With a budget of $2500 a month, the cost of a Facebook ad would go up very quickly and I wasn’t convinced that it would provide the most effective ROI. But I knew that a Facebook fan page would be essential at some point. So, I set up the fan page and allowed it to grow somewhat organically. The Facebook page is still a bit of a work in progress.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Channel 3: Twitter/My Personal Network</strong></span></span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Given the budget I would require to get the most out of Facebook I decided to focus my efforts on Twitter. As a blogger, I noticed something about the audiences of Twitter and Facebook. They didn’t seem to have much overlap when it came to the everyday internet user. However, anybody who was a blogger seemed to be extremely active on Twitter. This was the group of people who could make a message spread.  Additionally, I had my personal network of bloggers on Twitter who I have interacted with almost daily over the past several months.</p>
<p></br></p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">A Campaign to Hire a New Writer</span></h2>
<p></br></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">After staffing the blog with 4 writers, I decided to hire another writer.  Rather than ask for writing samples and picking the one I liked best, I wanted to use the hiring process as a viral marketing tool. I asked the potential writers to do the following: <strong> </strong></p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Write a Blog Post About Anything Travel Related on their own blog:</strong> I asked them to write on their own blogs because I knew it was something they would already be doing at least a few times a week.  The thought process was to make it as as easy as possible for people to participate.</li>
<li><strong>Link to Flighster in the Post: </strong> The goal behind this was simply to generate relevant inbound links from other travel blogs. My SEO knowledge is pretty limited to what I’ve read on various blogs, but I felt that this would also help get the word out about Fligtster among other travel bloggers.</li>
<li><strong>Tweet the blog Post with the hashtag #FLIGHTSTER  and follow us on Twitter:</strong> This allowed me to not only build a following amongst travel bloggers, but also stay engaged with all the participants throughout the course of the competition. Additionally, it proved to be a great tool for building awareness of the Flightster brand.</li>
<li><strong>Get our Attention:</strong> In an effort to keep the engagement level with participants up, I gave them freedom to get our attention in any way they felt they could. The result was video submissions and a consistent sharing of their own content with the hashtag #Flightster.</li>
<li><strong>Voting for the Next Fligthster</strong>: After allowing the contest to run for two weeks, we narrowed it down to 10 finalists. We then setup a poll enabling the readers to vote on their favorite writer, and encouraged the contest participants to promote their participation  in the contest in order to get as many votes as possible. The result was a signficant jump in traffic.</li>
</ul>
<p></br></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The thought process behind the campaign had a few components. First I wanted to kill as many birds with one stone as possible.  That is why I made connecting with us in all of our channels a component of the contest.  Another thing that we wanted to do was to give the participants a sense of control over their participation in the contest. Many of the various contests have winners that are chose at random, thus reducing the incentive for people to participate.  The result of this kind of contest is a “what are my chances” mind set.  By allowing people to gather votes to become our next writer, we put them in control.  Another interesting byproduct of the contest was that we facilitated an ongoing conversation between participants. Contestants commented on each other’s blogs and followed each other on twitter.  We served as a connector.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">The Results:<br />
</span></h2>
<p></br></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Bloggers Who Participated</strong>: 24</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Finalists in the Contest</strong>: 8</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">Traffic During the Contest</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4187" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/09/case-study-new-blog-growth.html/contestanalytics-for-flightster"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4187" title="ContestAnalytics for Flightster" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/ContestAnalytics-for-Flightster.jpg" alt="" width="644" height="264" /></a></p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">Traffic During the First 2 Months of Flightster</h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4188" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/09/case-study-new-blog-growth.html/tweetstats1"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4188" title="TweetStats for Flightster" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/TweetStats1.jpg" alt="" width="672" height="287" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4189" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/09/case-study-new-blog-growth.html/tweestats2"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4189" title="tweestats 2 for Flightster" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/tweestats2.jpg" alt="" width="373" height="248" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://theskooloflife.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/tweestats2.tiff"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1866" title="tweestats2" src="http://theskooloflife.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/tweestats2.tiff" alt="" /></a>As you’ll see above, the results were decent for a brand new blog that nobody had heard of prior to its launch in early July.  Without a doubt the campaign to hire a writer was the most effective tool we had in our arsenal which is what caused the biggest spike in traffic. The cost of running this campaign: ZERO DOLLARS.</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">Lessons Learned:</span></h2>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #800080;"><strong>Engagement vs. Numbers</strong>:</span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">One of the things that might surprise some people is that this was all done with roughly 300 followers on twitter and only 130 Facebook fans.  If you have thousands of followers who don’t interact with your brand, then you are really missing the point of being on Twitter. Out of the 300 followers, our engagement was focused primarily on the participants in our contest.  You need followers who are actually engaged and interacting with your brand. Otherwise it’s like standing on top of a table in a crowded restaurant, wearing a ridiculous outfit and hoping people will want to talk to you. This might seem the like the slower way to grow on twitter, but it’s just slower when you start out. In the long run this approach will make you grow much, much faster. Just ask Scott Stratten, a guy who nobody knew last year and is now this years keynote speaker for Blogworld.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #800080;"><strong>The Power is in a Network:</strong></span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">I can’t underscore how much my personal network played a role in this.  Given that I have my own blog and a personal network, getting the word out about this contest was simply a matter of emailing all the bloggers who I had relationships with and asking them to share  our post about our contest with their followers. Given that the post was about getting paid to write for a blog, it made complete sense for them to share it with their networks and I got no resistance at all.  So, my advice is find out who in your company already has a network in place.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #800080;"><strong>The Tipping Point and The Rule of 150</strong>:</span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">A few weeks back I was listening to Malcom Gladwell’s book, the Tipping point for the second time and I came across a concept known as “The Rule of 150.” The basic idea behind this rule is simple. The highest number of social  relationships we can effectively manage is 150 and it takes roughly 150 people to make an idea spread.  This was the driver behind how I decided to approach building the Flightster following on Twitter and in my own personal brand. With my personal brand I have seen a significant jump in traffic and subscribers to my blog.  What this all comes down to is one simple fact: Social media is building a “social” relationship with your brand.</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">Now Is Your Turn&#8230;</span></h2>
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		<title>How to Allow Photo-Tagging by Fans on Your Facebook Page</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the past few weeks I have received a lot of requests about photo-tagging in business pages: It was a good question from Adam. There used to be a simple option to tweak the settings but ever since facebook had modified the photo tab and its layout last month, the option was completely invisible: Good [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop --><p style="text-align: justify;">Since the past few weeks I have received a lot of requests about photo-tagging in business pages:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4111" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/09/allow-fans-photo-tagging.html/question-about-photo-tagging-for-fans"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4111" title="question about photo tagging for fans" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/question-about-photo-tagging-for-fans.png" alt="" width="509" height="70" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It was a good question from Adam. There used to be a simple option to tweak the settings but ever since facebook had modified the photo tab and its layout last month, the option was completely invisible:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4112" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/09/allow-fans-photo-tagging.html/no-settings-to-allow-fans-to-tag-photos-in-facebook-page"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4112" title="no settings to allow fans to tag photos in facebook page" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/no-settings-to-allow-fans-to-tag-photos-in-facebook-page.png" alt="" width="606" height="79" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Good news is, after a long search within <a href="http://www.facebook.com/socialbloggingtracker"><span style="color: #0000ff;">my own fan page</span></a>, I managed to dig it up again. Basically there are two ways you can locate it:</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ff6600;"> <span style="color: #ff6600;">Method #1  &#8211;  Convert Photo Tab to Boxes</span></span></h2>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">We all know Facebook had made clear that <a href="http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/399"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Boxes are going away</span></a> for good after <em>23rd August 2010</em>. Even so, facebook has yet to implement the change on all facebook accounts at once so lucky for me, I can still see my boxes tab lying comfortably on my Wall. If you can see yours too then here’s what you can do:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">1.	Go to Edit Page, look for Photo -&gt; Application Settings.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">2.	In Profile, click ‘Add’ next to Box.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4113" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/09/allow-fans-photo-tagging.html/add-box-tab-in-photo-settings"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4113" title="Add Box tab in Photo settings" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Add-Box-tab-in-Photo-settings.png" alt="" width="439" height="234" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">3.	Now your ‘Photo’ will appear inside the Boxes tab. Click at ‘Edit Settings’ to reveal the photo-tagging setup:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4114" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/09/allow-fans-photo-tagging.html/photo-edit-settings-appears-inside-facebook-boxes-tab"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4114" title="Photo edit settings appears inside facebook boxes tab" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Photo-edit-settings-appears-inside-facebook-boxes-tab.png" alt="" width="472" height="332" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">Voila! Here it is!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4115" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/09/allow-fans-photo-tagging.html/photo-settings-to-allow-fans-to-add-or-tag-photos-in-facebook-page"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4115" title="photo settings to allow fans to add or tag photos in facebook page" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/photo-settings-to-allow-fans-to-add-or-tag-photos-in-facebook-page.png" alt="" width="524" height="285" /></a></p>
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<h2 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">Method #2  &#8211; Replace Page ID to Access the App Settings</span></h2>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4116" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/09/allow-fans-photo-tagging.html/no-edit-settings-in-boxes-tab"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4116" title="no edit settings in boxes tab" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/no-edit-settings-in-boxes-tab.png" alt="" width="531" height="132" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Now here’s another scenario when a business page was already receiving fans photos before this. The ‘Edit Settings’ will be hidden from view as shown below:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4117" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/09/allow-fans-photo-tagging.html/no-edit-settings-if-fans-had-added-photo"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4117" title="no edit settings if fans had added photo" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/no-edit-settings-if-fans-had-added-photo.png" alt="" width="405" height="190" /></a><br /></br><br />
In that case, there is one way you can bypass the hassles and go straightly to the app settings. Just replace ‘xxxxxxxx’ with your own Page ID inside the link below will do (2305272732 is the application ID for Photo app):</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">http://www.facebook.com/pages/edit/app_settings.php?id=<span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>xxxxxxxx</strong></span>&amp;aid=2305272732</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">How to Locate Your Facebook Page ID?</span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">If you have not created a vanity URL for your business page, you can easily obtain the page ID from the default link – the number at the back as indicated:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;">http://www.facebook.com/pages/Social-Blogging-Tracker/<strong><span style="color: #f94d09;">106236190962</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Once you have claimed your business page <a href="http://www.facebook.com/username"><span style="color: #0000ff;">username</span></a>, the page ID is no where in sight. What you can do is hover over ‘Edit Page’ then look for your page ID underneath your browser. Copy that and insert the numbers into the link as explained in Method #2.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-4118" href="http://www.wchingya.com/2010/09/allow-fans-photo-tagging.html/hover-over-edit-page-to-reveal-facebook-fan-page-id"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4118" title="hover over edit page to reveal facebook fan page ID" src="http://www.wchingya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/hover-over-edit-page-to-reveal-facebook-fan-page-ID.png" alt="" width="385" height="386" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Pretty simple right? Make sure to bookmark this post just in case you wish to make modifications to your fans&#8217; photo tagging (or adding) in future.</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">Now Is Your Turn&#8230;</span></h2>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Do you allow fans to add and tag photos in your facebook fan page? How effective do you think photos can help in improving your facebook page engagement with fans?</p>
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