Connections: Facebook, Flickr and your camera phone

Jan 032010
 

Although there’s an iPhone app for everything short of walking your dog, sometimes there’s an easier way to something that’s a little off the beaten path. I was taking photos of some artwork that a friend of mine did with our daughter on New Year’s Eve and in the midst of sending it to my twitpic account, I changed my mind and came up with a way to post a photo to a Flickr photo stream and Facebook simultaneously. Continue reading »

Getting Fans on Facebook

Mar 262009
 

I went to a seminar this week at Salem State’s Enterprise Center about managing social networking for small businesses. Neal Advertising’s Neal Bocian, Chad Foster and Jesse Friedman were great at not only explaining why social networking matters for business, but also incorporating the wide range of questions into their presentation. One business owner asked the question that I am sure most people do after they’ve brought their company’s Facebook page into being: “How do I get Fans for my business?”. Continue reading »

Buttons and Chicklets and Badges Oh My!

Feb 182009
 

My most recent client is looking to upgrade the blog portion of their site by adding features to increase readership and create an online community. It’s something that’s fairly easily done via the web, but it’s the kind of task that requires a few simple tips to make sure your site makes the right connections with your readers. Continue reading »

Hmmm….

Feb 142009
 

I thought a chart might be a good tool to organize a social networking project I’ve been working on. So I put all the services that I wanted to connect up in a group and started drawing lines connecting them. And, lo and behold:

-maybe the Pope’s right! ;^)

How To Put A Link In A Facebook Note

Jan 282009
 

Putting a link into a Facebook note
Here’s an example of a link embedded in a Facebook Note

1. Create your note on your Facebook profile. Then, in another window on your browser, find the page you want to link to. Select that page’s url and copy it.

2. Go back to your note and find the text you want to transform into a link. Place your cursor in front of the first letter and type in these characters:
The beginning of an html hypertext link tag

3. Now, after the first set of quote marks, paste in the url you just copied and then put another set of quotation marks followed by a bracket after it like so:
The rest of the opening link tag

4. Next, go to the last character in the string of text you want to link to and after it type:
The closing tag in an html hypertext link

NOTE:  I have had a couple of readers tell me that this didn’t work for them.  If you try it and it doesn’t work as a link, please leave a comment below.  Facebook has an annoying way of changing things around so it never hurts to test again once in a while.