Social media

Is timeline coming to facebook fan pages?

by sherylm on January 31, 2012

Post image for Is timeline coming to facebook fan pages?

Facebook recently introduced timeline to personal profiles, so far we’ve had the option of using timeline but soon everyone will be on it. Personally I like it, it’s like a visual diary which appeals to my design sense. However it does reveal more openly what you’ve been up to since you began your facebook journey. What do you think of it? If you need some tips on how to use it you may find this article helpful.

So…. that leads to the next question, will timeline be introduced to fan pages? It’s rumored that it will be so in order to be prepared you may want to review how you post to your fan page or business page. Timeline is more image heavy so great images take precedence, ensure you use them in your posts and of course the main image or ‘cover photo’ could be cleverly branded to add impact. Talk to me about that if or when it happens :)

{ 2 comments }

Twitter, tweets, twittering, tweeps – what??!!

by sherylm on September 26, 2009

What is this Twitter all about?

twitter2If you don’t know what I’m talking about, it’s time to catch up on the latest social media phenomenon – Twitter.

How it works: With Twitter you send short messages of 140 characters or less – these are known as “tweets” — to any other Twitter member (a tweep) who has chosen to “follow” you. You can send the messages from your computer and you can send or receive tweets via your cell phone.

Twitter accounts are free, and if you learn how to gather a community of followers, you have an audience that you can reach out and “tweet” your message to anytime, anywhere. If your Tweets are helpful, entertaining or just plain great, your followers will pass the Tweet to their followers, and so on and so on…
[click to continue…]

{ 1 comment }