Archives for the 'Facebook' Category
Social Media in Your Campus Emergency Plan
Wednesday, September 29th, 2010
Yesterday’s horrific shooting incident at the University of Texas at Austin underscored the need to include your campus social media presences in your emergency/disaster communications plans.
While the University did an excellent job of updating their main home page and emergency web site, they left one of their most important channels completely dark – their institutional [...]
Linking to a single Facebook wall post
Friday, September 3rd, 2010
This is an easy thing to do, but not so easy to find the link. Facebook has hidden it in the post’s time stamp. Just click on the time stamp, and the post will open on a new page – copy the URL of this page from your browser’s address bar, and you’re all set!
Facebook Doesn’t Value the Developer Relationship
Thursday, May 20th, 2010
Yesterday afternoon, Facebook dropped a bomb on the developers and content creators that use Facebook pages to extend their brands into the social web. In a very unprofessional and careless manner, they announced a major policy change by burying it in the middle of a forum thread on the Facebook Developer site.
The specifics of the [...]
Adding FBML to a Facebook Page
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
After my HEWEBVC presentation last week, I’ve been asked by a number of people how we added links to our class groups and pages to our Facebook page.
Here’s a short tutorial I recorded on adding FBML content to your Facebook Page. Although we use it to link to related groups and pages, there are many [...]
Facebook Doesn’t Value the User Relationship
Friday, April 30th, 2010
When you were growing up, did you have a Magic 8 Ball? I did, and I remember asking it a question, flipping it over, and waiting for the bubbles to clear so I could read the prognostication as it appeared from the murky blue depths. What would it say? Would it be positive, “without a [...]