Internet Business
RSS Graffiti Facebook App
Crosspost Your Blog Posts to Facebook The RSS Graffiti Facebook app is a great tool for any web designer–or even ordinary person–to have blog updates pushed out to your Facebook wall. In fact, you could have wall updates from any RSS feed… for example, you could have updates from a trusted source of industry news posted to your wall–but I believe the most common use would be to save you the effort of manually posting an update in multiple places. Instructions Go to the RSS Graffiti app (you can also search for the name of the application in Facebook). You’ll need to add RSS Graffiti to your Facebook profile, like any other Facebook app. But...
Read MoreWhy Can’t I Edit My Business Fan Page?
Have you ever searched for your business name on Facebook, found a fan page with no information and a generic image of a suitcase instead of a logo, and discovered you could not change “your” fan page? If you see “Community Pages are not affiliated with, or endorsed by, anyone associated with the topic.” then this is not a true fan page at all. It is a Facebook community page If what you are seeing is the real fan page for your business, you are logged in, and you are unable to edit the fan page, then you had better hope someone else has access to edit the fan page! The best cure is prevention. Make sure multiple people are set as admins...
Read MoreCan my Business Use Vimeo?
The Vimeo Business Use Controversy Vimeo states on their home page (when you are not logged in) that Vimeo is not for commercial use. What exactly this does and does not allow is unclear, however. A vimeo staffer apparently stated that videos by a business are ok, as long as they don’t seem like commercials: Commercial videos are fine, as long as they’re not being used to *actively* sell or promote a product or service. On the other hand, if you try to contact Vimeo support and select “Commercial use on Vimeo,” then you see a pretty stark statement. The page asks you to answer four questions, the first of which is “Am I a business?”...
Read MoreHow to Show Your Most Recent YouTube Videos in WordPress
You can easily list the latest YouTube videos from any channel in your sidebar as a WordPress widget, using the TubePress plugin. This plugin is designed to be a flexible tool for showing a gallery of YouTube or Vimeo videos on a page, but it does provide a simple sidebar widget. There is also a WordPress plugin called “TubePress .NET,” but this plugin is completely unrelated and does not even serve the same purpose. You have many options for what videos to show–the newest or most popular videos on YouTube, for example–but the most likely use I can think of is for you to feature your newest videos on your own website, so the instructions to...
Read MoreAre You Facebook-Invisible And Don’t Know It?
For the first time, I noticed today that my Facebook news feed actually had two views: “Top News” and “Most Recent.” “Top News” is the default, and I was quite surprised when I clicked “Most Recent” and discovered many, many postings Facebook had been hiding from me! I was even more surprised to find that even the “Most Recent” view still does not show everything from your friends. You might be posting to your wall, making a status update or sharing a link… and even if every one of your Facebook friends checked their news feed immediately afterwards, not all of them would see what you are sharing. I read a...
Read MoreBackup Your Own Website
Why YOU Need to Backup the Site We tend not to think about or prepare for digital disaster. How many people have a detailed strategy prepared for if their computer suddenly loses all of its data, or something happens to their website, or email, etc.? Very few. We’re all only human. But what if it does happen? Can you rely on your web host? Or your web designer? Maybe. Maybe not. Typically, hosting companies like Hostgator and web design firms like Alamoxie try to backup the site, but make sure to warn you, the client, that you need to make your own backups. Why? Because things happen. All too often, the backup method itself fails… or perhaps the backup was...
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