Social Media Advice for Charities

Change your Facebook NewsFeed from 250 to 5000 and fix Facebook

facebook_128When Facebook launched their latest redesign lots of people started to complain about not seeing update from their friends or stuff appearing out of order, well now we know why.

It seems Facebook made a significant change to the number of updates you can see at anyone time it used to be 5000 now its 250 this means the system has to filter the updates to only show you what is most relevant.

Thanks to Skippy we can now put it back the way it was and restore the feed to its preredesign behaviour:

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Setting up your Charities Buzz Profile

GooglebuzzIf you are thinking of setting up a Google Buzz account I have a tip for you, don't tie it directly to any of your existing Google Email addresses or Accounts instead create a new Gmail address This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and an associated Google Account and Public Profile.

In that Google Account add the email addresses of the staff who will be using the Buzz account as secondary email address (handy to recover passwords).

If you integrate your Google Profile (your charities brand in Google Buzz) with an existing single staffs Gmail account what happens if they leave?

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Woopra Real Time Web Analytics: The Future of Analytics

woopraAt the dawn of The Social Decade (2010) there has been a real need for better, more accurate and timely stats about our websites than we have had in the past. The Leading Analytics providers have been slow to adopt "Real Time" as part of their tool sets.

Enter Woopra to forever change the way you think about your website, your users, and your metrics.

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Get your own Addthis SocialBar as seen @Media140

addthisWhen I was presenting my Keynote at Media140 I put out there my thoughts on "share" widgets, you know those clever little buttons that allow you to share a page with a wide range of services.

I found that out of all the "Share" services and widget providers that the AddThis ShareBar provides the highest number of share actions by a long way.

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Facebook 2010 Redesign goes live

facebook_128Here's New Facebook.....sorry couldn't resist. Facebook have rolled out what I'm calling the Facebook 2010 redesign, it's not like Facebook has an official code name for it sadly.

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