17Dec

Can You Take The Timeline Off Your Facebook Profile?

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Can You Take The Timeline Off Your Facebook Profile

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Before timeline went live, it was actually possible to undo an upgrade to this advanced profile: Uninstalling the Developer application from your Facebook account would remove the timeline. But now all of this has changed.

A spokesperson for Facebook explained in an email to us:

Once you click “Get Timeline,” you will have seven days to review everything that appears on your timeline before anyone else can see it.

If you choose, you can publish your timeline right away. If you decide to wait, your timeline will go live automatically after seven days. Your timeline will replace your profile.

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17Dec

DON’T CLICK: Costo Gift Card Scam On Facebook

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Costo Gift Card Scam On Facebook

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By now we’ve all become waryof posts like this one on Facebook: “Costco is currently giving away $100.00 gift cards to all Facebook users!’

Alas, as of this writing, a bogus Costco gift card scam was live on Facebook.

We have no doubt that the social network’s immune system will detect the web address that the latest posts include and add the URLs to the security databases.

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16Dec

IT’S BAAAACK! Southwest Airlines Scam Returns To Facebook

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IT’S BAAAACK! Southwest Airlines Scam Returns To Facebook

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Just when you think Facebook has blocked every possible link to a particular scam meme, it returns with another web address. Southwest Airlines isn’t giving away 973 pairs of free tickets on the social network, and by now most people have learned that promises to that effect only lead to malware and spam.

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16Dec

Is Google+ Really a Social Media Game Changer?

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Google+ may be less than a year old, but New York Times bestselling author Chris Brogan is ready to crown it a game changer. His latest book, which will publish next week, is called Google+ for Business: How Google’s Social Network Changes Everything.

“Everything?,” we asked Brogan. He assured us, rather indignantly, that he hasn’t made a mistake with his book’s title.

Google+ has an obvious advantage in search results, presents unique opportunities for brands and is backed by deep pockets, he argues. And all of these factors make it a social media platform that will stick around in a big way.

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16Dec

Facebook Timeline Now Available to Everyone

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After months of slow, gradual rollout, Facebook Timeline is now available to all users.

The Timeline is a radical redesign of Facebook‘s user profile pages, introduced at Facebook’s F8 conference in September. Instead of merely listing your interests and personal info, the Timeline shows a detailed overview of your life on Facebook, with the ability to check out what you’ve been out to at a particular point in time.

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14Dec

How To Get 41% More Likes On Your Facebook Posts

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How To Get 41 More Likes On Your Facebook Posts

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Even if you’re using the best marketing practices on Facebook, you can still take engagementand virality to the next level.

Best Practices

Let’s assume you’ve adopted some of the best practices of getting good results posting to your Facebook fans:

  • Understand your audience and what they care about;
  • Post content that doesn’t just say “me, me, me;”
  • Use calls to action (“click like if…”, asking questions, or simply saying “tell us in the comments section…”) to get more engagement; and
  • Look at the visibility, likes and comments of individual posts to see what’s working and what’s not.
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13Dec

Sharing Blogger Posts on Google+ Has Never Been Easier

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Sharing Blogger Posts on Google+ Has Never Been Easier

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Google has added a new feature for Blogger users who have connected their blog with their Google+account, making it easier to share a post with their Google+ friends, too.

After you publish a post on Blogger, you’ll see a box containing a snippet from your post. Before sharing the post, you can choose which Google+ Circles you’d like to share the post with, add an additional comment if you like.

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12Dec

What the World’s Biggest Websites Looked Like at Launch

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While the company’s design doesn’t seem to have changed a whole lot, its services and capabilities sure have. Created by Stanford PhD students Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Google officially launched Sept. 4, 1998. The interface was so simple because the founders didn’t know HTML and were looking for a quick design.

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12Dec

Infographic: Can Facebook Get You a Job?

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Can Facebook Get You a Job

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In answer to the question above, approximately 18,400,000 Americans say yes, they got their current job through Facebook. Though Zuck’s platform ranks #1, Twitter and LinkedIn don’t have shabby numbers either — 8 million and 10.2 million Americans, respectively, have gotten their jobs through social platforms.

Judging from our Job Search Series, it should come as no surprise that being socially savvy pays off in the job hunt for two reasons — it helps you network, and it’s a highly marketable strength in your skill set, given all the openings in the digital space. So, it’s about time you spruce up those social profiles and start networking.

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