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Include Contact Links on Your Facebook Profile
Social Media Tip of the Day
On your Facebook personal profile About page (TimeLine) or Info page (if not yet on Timeline) Use the Contact box to list your other social profiles and websites.
No matter how many you list, Facebook will only display six of them. However, you may find it convenient to list more than six and switch them around from time to time. You could make one of them a direct link to more of your links as I have done with the first link on the list you see here. Put a carrier return between each link. If you have or support a Facebook Page - be sure to include that.
Why provide this information? For the convenience of your Facebook friends to find you elsewhere. Just because you are already connected on Twitter, especially if your Twitter name is not simply your first and last name, it may not come immediately to mind. Believe it or not, your friends can forget the name of or have difficulty finding your Facebook Page. (note there is a distinction here between a Facebook Profile and a Facebook Page - profiles have friends, Pages have fans/likes). You've recently gotten on Pinterest but you didn't get Pinterest.com/yourname because your name was already taken. Mine is at Pinterest.com/Kauaimarketing. Help people return to your boards. You have a blog or website. Make it easy for people to visit you there.
Today I got a Facebook message about an event that I wanted to share on Twitter. To use a "via" for the person that posted that event, the first place I checked was her about page. Alas, she had not added any contact links there. I took the extra time to look it up, but many will not.
The "About" page link is just below a few particulars about the Facebook member below their profile photo on a Facebook Timeline profile. On a Facbook personal profile that has not yet gone to Timeline, click on the word "info" under the word "wall" under the profile photo of the Facebook member. Scroll down to "contact information". If the member has added anything there the links will be listed under "website".
Facebook Changes Post to Status Today
Following up on recent Facebook changes, Facebook today slightly changed the interface where you update status on your Facebook personal profile or Page.
Facebook changed Post to Status.
I believe they are reacting to complaints from users that it felt like "status update" had disappeared during recent changes so they decided the word status was better. What you do there is the same, post something on your or someone else's wall.
Yesterday:
Today:
New Facebook Groups - How to Protect Yourself
Facebook made some new announcements this week. As usual, it is important to note what they have done and redo the settings on your personal account. The most noticeable change is the change in Facebook Groups. There were some positive intentions with this change, however, the current platform allows new activities that most definitely impact your experience on Facebook.
A woman that I am friends with on Facebook created a new Facebook group, with a title suggesting that the members are elite in some way, and added me to the group along with 160+ other people.
This in itself has some issues. Do we all agree with the curation of the members? I founded a group called Women on Top while I was CEO of Club Med in Japan. We let all members participate in the process of vetting members. Complex process but we definitely built a kick-ass group.
So what happens when you get added to a Facebook Group? Every time someone comments on the group, everyone in the group gets an email notification. I am including my email inbox today as an example to show you what happens in default mode.
Much of the commentary on the group on the first day was chatter about archiving all these emails. Perhaps there should be a setting choice for an email digest instead of individual ones? Personally, I don't need to be notified at all. If I want to see people's comments I can go to the group. The last thing I need is more stuff in my inbox right now. Yes, I can take these mails directly to a smart inbox folder - but do I need these mails on my computer? That is certainly up to you. If you think they are important and you want to look at them later at your leisure, you should archive them.
The screen shot of my personal email inbox has been sanitized to remove the names of the participants following receipt of the complaints you see in comments here. I apologize - I didn't see anything sensitive in the screenshot. The first 2 - 3 words of comments are completely innocuous. But just FYI - The lack of an opt-in on Facebook Groups also lacks any agreement on the part of members to keep a private group private. Do read the Search Engline Land article linked to at the end of my post for further shenanigans encouraged by this move on Facebook.
The first time I encountered this type of thing was on Whrrl when they initiated the ability for Members to create "Societies" and add their friends to them at will. After being added to a "Society", the society began sending notification alerts to my iPhone as though it were one of the few notifications I actually wanted to get - each notification making a ding on my battery. Fortunately, Whrrl swiftly responded by clarifying we turn off that notification.
Same with the new Facebook Groups. I didn't ask to be added nor to get email notifications, here they are but it looks like they can be turned off. AND you can reject the invitation by removing yourself.
I already have Facebook Chat turned off but apparently you will be buzzed by your Facebook chat.
If you are added to a group, you DO have some choices.
Choice 1: Remove yourself from the Group: Click on "Leave Group" as in picture below
The head shots of 14 members were removed from this screen shot.
Choice 2: Limit Notifications.
There are several places to do this.
Click on Edit Settings: this is the first screen. The default is "Notify me when a member posts"
You can change that.
This screen shot was photo-shopped to remove a member's comment.
Secondly you can choose these notifications - but you should want these.
You'll see at the bottom of this group "change email settings for individual groups"
By default the group is clicked. You can unclick this:
Meetup dot com can sometimes do short spews of correspondence but nothing like what has been created by this group. And I joined MeetUp by my own choice.
As things settle down a bit and the ramifications of this move on Facebook become more clear, I will publish an article for my readers at Boomer Tech Talk.
Additions:
Found this great article Mari Smith posted on her Facebook by Danny Sullivan at SearchEngineLand. Danny does an excellent job making the point that Facebook Groups should be opt-in, not opt-out. Reading it, I felt glad that I've been selective in adding Facebook friends - but I still want opt-in.
Facebook Should Allow Island Name in Hawaii Profile Locations
The islands in the State of Hawaii are the equivalent of the difference between living in Los Angeles or San Francisco in the State of California. The distances may be shorter in some cases, but we do after all, have to fly between them.
Once we know what island you are on, we might care if you are east, west, north, south shore - but except for a few big, easy to identify cities like Honolulu and Hilo, city info is not that useful. Not to mention that some city names, like Waimea, are repeated on different islands. Facebook only allows members to list a city and state in their profile location. Local search and geomarketing which benefits from zip codes, computer IP's and geolocation platforms like Yelp for iPhone is related but a different issue.
Thank you to accessmaps.com for the map. Note distance between islands is not to scale.
