Posts Tagged "facebook"

Facebook cuts off the edges of my thumbnail images!

Posted by on Aug 4, 2011 in Social Media | 0 comments

Facebook cuts off the edges of my thumbnail images!

If you look at your Facebook fan page, odds are you’ll see five photos—the five that you most recently added or that your fan page was most recently tagged in—in a photo strip across the top of the page. The image, above, of Oreo’s use of the photo strip is from the excellent article 35 Creative Facebook Fan Page Photo Strips. There are, as you might guess, 34 other great examples there of how brands are making use of those images. Most fan pages are not effectively using this, however. Honestly, it can be a bit tricky. First, your photo strip thumbnails are in random order. On a personal profile you have some control over the order of the...

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Can’t Invite Friends List to Facebook Page or Event?

Posted by on Aug 3, 2011 in Social Media | 44 comments

Can’t Invite Friends List to Facebook Page or Event?

Facebook doesn’t want you to sent out thousands of unwanted invites to your friends. They really, really don’t want you to. So over time they continue to alter the way certain functionality works. When you invite people to a Facebook fan page or an event, for example, the “select all” button is gone, leaving you to click them one by one. Instead of showing you all your friends by default, they show ones you have recently interacted with (supposedly). Then you have a drop-down to choose from. The contents of that drop-down are: Recent Interactions Search All Friends Some of the cities your friends are in Your universities Some of the Facebook...

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Why Can’t I Edit My Business Fan Page?

Posted by on Jun 15, 2011 in Social Media | 0 comments

Why 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...

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