Don’t Let Facebook Hide Your Message!
Multiple third party applications exist for posting to more than one platform at a time. Those who are active on Twitter may regularly use something like Tweetdeck or Hootsuite to send an update or share a link on Twitter and Facebook at the same time.
If you are actively sharing this way don’t forget that Facebook will group multiple posts together in the news feed – this means that yours might get hidden in the stream.
Today I got Mashable’s message loud and clear, but I scrolled past an additional post from HootSuite twice before noticing the link underneath. If it’s important then take the time to post your link directly on your Facebook profile or page! Or maybe there’s a third party app out there that’s immune? If you’ve got one let me know!
Wednesday: Fashion or Flirt?
Posting from Ireland this week (loving it!) and disappointed to miss two great events in DC tomorrow night. Your Call to Action: Drink, Donate, Date will be rallying citizen philanthropists together for CitizenGulf at Busboys and Poets, and Fashionable Fancy Fun will rock the runway at Relic in honor of New Endeavors by Women. Both honor wonderful causes, are sponsored by great companies, and will be packed by the looks of it – be there!
Update on Faces and Places
When you click on the events tab on Facebook’s home page first up you see what’s “happening now,” i.e. who checked in where. Don’t be alarmed – it’s not events no one bothered to invite you to, it’s just your friends out having a jolly good time without you.
Your friends are checking in all over the place (well the US) and they might be tagging you. I’m sure most of you have read posts on how to save your self from such shame – I mean, imagine your “friends” actually telling your “friends” where you were tonight? Scandalous. Best dip over to privacy setting and clog that leak, or learn why it’s not as scary as you think - CNN wrote the best explanation.
The Facebook for iPhone app now allows you to customize each individual check in to selected groups. Now, more than ever, it’s time to finally sit down for 3 hours and really ponder who your “friends” are.
Rough life.
DC Restaurant Week – Girls Just Wanna Have Food!
I’m no food blogger. Even as a past Director of Catering I was far more interested in consumption. So, alas, no long spiel on how delightful my lunch at Rasika was (service, service, service - enough said) or how much I drooled over everyone’s plates at Co Co. Sala. No, just a few pics from the gals who made me smile as we all indulged, bite after sip after spoon after gulp. Oii…”nom nom” doesn’t even cover it!
It’s the little things….
With the new iPhone for Facebook app (released today)
you now have the option to customize your on-the-go
status updates as you please.
Yes please!
What you need to know about Facebook Places
Mark Zuckerberg is no Steve Jobs, and Facebook is no Apple – but it was interesting to see the similarities between regular Apple product launches and Facebook Places launch event this evening. That aside, here’s what the average Jo needs to know about Facebook Places:
- · Rolls out tonight, currently only available in the United States. Friends in other countries will see check in’s on your feed, if your privacy permits, but will not have the option to check in at this time (no foreign launch dates yet available, just the usual tech company response – “we’re working on it.”)
- · Currently Places is only available through an updated Facebook for iPhone app (available at some point tonight) or through touch.facebook.com if your mobile browser supports HTML 5 and geolocation. Sorry, no word on Android app. Boo Hoo
- · Beyond the current geolocation leaders, you can tag your friends with Facebook Places with a simple tap – no need to memorize Twitter handles – which will appear on their wall, similar to the current status update tags.
- · Facebook has partnered with leaders Gowalla, Foursquare and Yelp for check in integration. They’ve also partnered with Booyah, developers of My Town, who announced – in so many words – that their app fails so they’re currently recreating and we should get excited! Does someone at Facebook have a thing for someone at Booyah? Because I can’t see why they would overlook companies like Loopt or Brightkite in favor of a failure.
- · You will have the ability to customize your privacy so that anyone can check you in, no one can check you in, or only select groups of friends can check you in – or see that you are checked in somewhere.
- · There will be option to edit or flag current venues and add new venues as needed.
- · Facebook will host Places pages on their website so that your check in remains for as long as you allow it to remain on your Facebook wall. This means that in 40 years whatever you posted when you checked in at the local bar will be visible to your grandchildren.
Hot point: If we check in on Facebook will we have the reverse option to tweet it? Big factor, huge.
So, that said, will you check in on Facebook? Or stick to Foursquare or Gowalla where you can have your fun now but don’t feel like big brother is watching? There’s no photo add on yet, but if added would that change your mind? Did you really check in to find your friends, or did you check in to play a game, stamp your passport and top the leader board? Facebook’s not offering any game, or discount, they believe you want to leave your writing on the wall.
I wonder if the game is getting too real, what do you reckon?
You’re a social what?
By bubblefriends on Flickr
“I’m a social media manager, you know, an online community manager.”
“So, like, you’re on Facebook and Twitter all day? And you get paid for that?”
Top 7 Things That Amuse Me In This Profession:
1. I “Like” all these things on Facebook that I don’t like at all.
2. At least once a day someone IM’s me on Facebook and tells me to “get a job.”
3. I got my job partially due to my personal Twitter handle, and thus it becomes part of my job to maintain my audience on my personal Twitter handle.
4. There’s no nine to five: my Sunday reading now includes the Financial Times and WSJ Finance Blog and I never saw it coming (I work for a financial literacy website).
5. My team communicates through Skype and Google docs, and I don’t even know how to check my voicemail – if it ever starts flashing.
6. I can reach coworkers faster through a DM rather than an email (I’m looking at you @frijolita).
7. You’ve lost me at character 141.
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Soccer, sun and DC family fun!
Street Soccer USA aims to help homeless men, women, and youths on the streets, “scoring goals on the field, and achieving their goals in life.” This weekend marks the return of the 2010 SSUSA Cup to Washington DC. This is a free, public event and community involvement is strongly encouraged, come show your support! Click here to read the details on my Examiner.com post.
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