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Facebook Tip: Deleting a comment

admin — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 19:56:49 +0000

I was trying to think of a Facebook tip to post one thing I’ve noticed from time to time is people on Facebook who apologize for posting something twice or correct their mistakes with a new post.

Did you know that if you post something on Facebook that you want to remove all you

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Custom Facebook Addresses

admin — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 14:50:03 +0000

Sorry for the delay. Facebook kept loading sans graphics for me yesterday, which made it a bit hard to get screenshots.

Have you seen the custom page addresses on Facebook, but don’t know how to get one? It’s simple, really. Get 25 people to Like your page and you can have a custom

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Who Sees Your Tweets?

admin — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 21:06:37 +0000

Earlier this week someone asked me who sees what when a tweet is sent from a public account. My Twitter stream has also been full of controversies such as the fiasco that is Charlie Sheen and retweets of Charlie Sheen on Twitter (Tiger blood or #winning, anyone?). There have also been disagreements between users

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Moving your business? Update your Google Maps listing!

admin — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 01:30:07 +0000

Since I recently had an appointment where I ended up at the wrong location thanks to an out-of-date Google Maps listing I have started noticing other places that are wrong as well. I know some of these places are wrong because I have been there before. Some of these listings are outdated by about

What do you want to learn about Facebook?

admin — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 19:59:44 +0000

I just don’t seem to have it in me to write a post today. I’m having a bit of writer’s block and can’t think of a tip to share. I was trying to think of one this morning when I realized, I could ask you.

So, I’m asking you.

What do you want to

Spambots & Twitter: Removing Spammers from your Followers

admin — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 14:00:00 +0000

There have been several conversations in my tweet stream lately about spammers on Twitter so I thought I would give you a few ways to rid your stream of them.

Blocking Spammers in TweetDeck

If you’re using TweetDeck you can hover over the offender’s avatar and click the gear icon (bottom right), and go

Twitter is Social – Who to Follow on Twitter?

admin — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:51:11 +0000

I’ve been working on the content for my Twitter 101 class more the last week or two and one of my slides is entitled TWITTER IS SOCIAL. Why do I say that? Because Twitter is:

Humor
News
Connections
Knowledge Sharing
Local

The screenshot of the slide below offers a few examples of

Posting Tweets in your Blog is as Easy as Blackbird Pie

admin — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:59:24 +0000

If you have a WordPress.com account you’ve probably noticed the integration of Blackbird Pie which allows you to grab the URL of a tweet and upon inserting it into your post have a screenshot of the tweet appear in your blog post. TechCrunch has a post about WordPress.com enabling Blackbird here.

Before this integration

Claim your “Place” on Google

admin — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:00:00 +0000

Have you claimed your Place on Google? Your Google Places page that is.

If you haven’t, why not? It’s free!

Your Places page is the page that shows up with a map and hours and other information when a Google Maps search is performed on your business. (See the Six Degrees Web Design Google

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Auto-Post to Facebook

admin — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 14:00:00 +0000

While I don’t recommend auto-posting everything to Facebook as you need to have some personality shine through on your fan page, I thought I would start my Facebook Friday blog theme by mentioning one way you can have your post automatically pushed to Facebook.

Networked Blogs is a service & Facebook app I found

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