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13 Blog Post Ideas and Other Tips for Business Blogs

What’s the Objective?

Earn TRUST – how important are relationships to your business?
Merit CREDIBILITY – how do you prove expertise?
Demonstrate you CARE – do you care enough to share?
Invite FEEDBACK – are phone & email enough for your customers?
Grow your online PRESENCE – how do your customers find you online?
Make someone say “WOW” – is it valuable [...]

Creating Your Own Custom YouTube Player

The Custom Player allows you to create a customized player that you can add to your website or blog. YouTube provides a nice easy to use one-page wizard to show one of your playlists, favorites, or your own videos.
Here is an example of a custom player that is set to play a specific playlist. As [...]

New Facebook Fan Page Features and Thoughts

Surprise!  Facebook has a new Fan Page look and feel.
So far the new Facebook Fan Page has received some mixed reviews.
New features I really like:

Use Facebook as your Page – Log in as “ProWorks” and post comments as your fan page and and even post on other people’s posts as your fan page.  Basically, you [...]

ProWorks First Tuesdays: Search Engine Optimization Fundamentals – January 4th

Just a quick reminder about our next free community workshop next Tuesday.  If you are in the Corvallis, Oregon, USA area come down to the Upper Deck Pub and grab some lunch and learn with us!
ProWorks First Tuesdays: Search Engine Optimization Fundamentals
A review of what website owners and managers should be aware of about [...]

Panel of Corvallis Businesses Will Share Social Media Experiences September 7th

On Tuesday, September 7th a panel of local business owners and employees will share their insight and experiences with using social media for business and professional purposes. The panelists represent a wide range of markets, roles and technical savvy that nearly every attendee should be able to identify with.

The panelists will be [...]

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Facebook unlike Twitter and blogs do not publish an RSS feed for us.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 [...]