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How to Generate an RSS Feed from Facebook

Facebook unlike Twitter and blogs do not publish an RSS feed for us. In addition it’s content is behind a login. This makes Facebook very challenging to monitor. This is a method for generating an RSS feed of content from Facebook utilizing Google search, Open Dapper and topping it off with an RSS reader. Note
The idea [...]

Add A Custom Tab to Your Facebook Fan Page – Starter Template Included

Adding a custom tab to your Facebook Fan page really isn’t that hard if you know a little HTML. But if you are daunted by CSS and layout, then today is your luck day. I’m going to give you a starter template to get going with and you can use that to get something [...]

Add Advanced Javascript SDK and FBML Facebook Like/Recommend Button Features To Your Website

After playing with the iFrame version of the Facebook Like Button Builder I wanted to see what the Javascript SDK version gave me in terms of extra functionality or control. In other words, why would I ever use it over the iframe version which is super-simple?
Get it Into Your Template
I found a great tutorial [...]

Add a new Facebook Like Button to Your Website or Blog

One of the newest cool things to come out of the f8 Conference is the Open Graph protocol/API that makes it really easy to get Facebook integrated with your blog or website.
The easiest thing to do right now is to add a Facebook Like button to your site:

You can see one on this blog over [...]

Jen Grant and Matt Riopelle Lead Social Media for Business in Corvallis

Two social media professionals from the Albany-Corvallis area, Matt Riopelle and Jennifer Grant joined the Social Media for Business group today to lead a discussion titled “Put Down the Megaphone, How to Talk Social.”
The turn out was fantastic. I didn’t do a head count but we did have people standing and sitting on the floor, which I [...]

How-to Claim Your Facebook Fan Page Vanity URL

The Facebook Fan Page Vanity URL is a key piece to cross-promoting your Fan Page with the world on your cards, website, receipts, or wherever its important to have something short and memorable for people to remember.
Unfortunately, its not super obvious where to set it.
Clearly someone else has already blogged this so I found a [...]

Notes and Blog Post Ideas from Social Media for Business in Corvallis

The topic for Social Media for Business in Corvallis today is: So You Have a Blog. Now What? Here are some of our notes, ideas and a list of post topics (in case you are wondering what to write about).
NOTES FROM SOCIAL MEDIA FOR BUSINESS TODAY:
“Merit credibility” and “Invite feedback” where the two most selected reasons for [...]

How To Add Boxes to the Wall Sidebar of Your Facebook Page

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Due to the new Facebook Profile and Page Roadmap Update fan page boxes are being phased out.  Now you need to use a Custom Tab.  For help getting a custom tab setup and a starter template please read our post: Add A Custom Tab to Your Facebook Fan Page – Starter Template Included. [...]

Selecting Social Media Guides

John Bergquist, a fellow social media professional for whom I have a high professional and personal regard recently published a blog post suggesting that the title of “social media expert” is overstated if we consider his observation:

“Social Media is such a new frontier that there really is no way that someone could honestly claim to [...]

Conclusions on Google Caffeine (New Search)

If you haven’t heard, Google has been working on a the next generation of their web search dubbed Google Caffeine. For the past month web professionals have been trying to figure out what impact this will have on the all powerful Google search engine rankings. After researching information from Google and independent sources my personal [...]