Blog posts for Facebook Category
Facebook Places Analysis: 3 Reasons Why Facebook Will Continue to Be Your Aggregator of Social Information
August 24th, 2010While everyone was talking about the new Facebook Places application last week, I wanted to wait until I had a chance to actually experiment with it myself and report firsthand back to you on my analysis. A little bit of historical perspective can’t hurt any analysis either: A few days in social media seems like [...]
Strategizing Your Social Media Trifecta
July 21st, 2010Today’s guest blog post about social media strategy for local marketing utilizing Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare comes from someone I met Windmill Networking on My Blog Guest, AJ Wilcox. I asked AJ to write about the intersection of local Internet marketing and social media strategy, and he surpassed my expectations with this excellent blog post. [...]
How Often Should You Update Your Social Media Status?
May 27th, 2010Image by jyoseph via Flickr I often get asked about whether it makes sense to completely integrate Twitter Tweets with your LinkedIn Status Update, so that every tweet shows up on LinkedIn. Obviously there is no one correct answer for this as it depends on your objective and LinkedIn Brand. However, the question brings to [...]
Growing Your Business…One Facebook Friend at a Time
May 25th, 2010Today’s blog post is from one of my new friends that I met Windmill Networking on Facebook, John Atterberry. John has a great story to tell from the perspective of a seasoned Marketing Strategist who approached Facebook business strategy from a social perspective. I have been telling companies all along that social media was made [...]
[Video] How To Add a Facebook Like Button to Your WordPress Blog or Website
May 6th, 2010If you haven’t noticed yet, Facebook “Like” buttons are starting to appear on many websites throughout the Web. These are part of the new Facebook “Social Plugin” options. For bloggers and businesses running websites, adding this “Like” button should be a no-brainer in that it adds the following benefits to your website: If someone “Likes” [...]
Understanding Those Mysterious Facebook Spam Messages You May Be Receiving
April 14th, 2010Image via Wikipedia If you are one of the 400+ million people on Facebook, you have probably already figured out a way to deal with filtering out the many potential notifications that you could be receiving. Going to the “Account Settings” page under your personal profile leads you to a complex screen like the one [...]
Facebook in Japan: Will It Blend?
January 19th, 2010It is rumored in Japan that Facebook will be establishing an office in the island nation sometime in 2010. This comes after Twitter successfully launched their Japanese operations in 2009 and now supposedly have more than 2 million registered Japanese users, more than it is estimated that Facebook has in Japan. If this is true, [...]
Top 30 Most Useful Facebook Blog Posts of 2009
January 5th, 2010Although I recently blogged that 2009 was, without doubt, the year of Twitter, Facebook had a similarly impressive year where we can say it became a truly mainstream social networking platform boasting over 350 million members. It seems that every business now has a Facebook Fan Page, and it becomes harder and harder for us [...]
5 Reasons Why Businesses Should Like Birthdays on Facebook
December 18th, 2009I recently had the pleasure of celebrating my first birthday on Facebook. Wow, what an experience! If you don’t have your birth date out to display to your friends or you haven’t been on Facebook long enough, you may not be able to comprehend what I experienced. But for those of you who know about [...]
Neal Schaffer is recognized as a leader in helping businesses and professionals embrace and strategically leverage the potential of social media. An award-winning published author, frequent speaker at social media events, and an avid blogger, Neal is President of 
