Facebook Social Media Advice
Alert: Major Facebook Pages Changes coming August 23rd 2010
- 12 Aug 10
Facebook have just added an alert when I checked out the BullyingUK Facebook page in Admin mode, on August 23rd 2010 Facebook will remove the Boxes tab and also change the width of your Facebook page.
This applies only to Facebook Brand (Fan) pages and not users profiles. If you have items in your Boxes tab now is the time to move it to it's own named tab, if you have a custom widget using the old Facebook page size you may way to alter it to 520px although I've heard Facebook have a clever work around of some sort to stop pages breaking on older sized widgets.
Time to go check your Facebook page and see if you can see this preview option when you check your page as an admin, if you can have a look at see what tweaks you need to make to be ready for the 23rd.
"To make your Page easier to browse, we’re simplifying a couple things: 1. Boxes are going away (including the Boxes tab); 2. All custom tabs will be narrower (520 pixels). This is your chance to preview your Page and make edits as needed before the new layout goes public on August 23." -Facebook preview
How To add Raffle.it to your Charity Facebook Page
- 17 May 10
I don't know about you but I struggle some days to keep on top of all the exciting prizes Raffle.it add to their prize board, making sure your supporters are aware of them as well can be a challenge.
Today I fired of a Tweet to Pascal Head Raffler of Raffle.it asking for an easy way to add Raffle.it's prizes to our Facebook page, I wanted a passive way that Raffle.it could let our supporters know about the latest prizes they could win but without me having to remember or have time to do it myself. (I'm not lazy just only so many hours in a day)
As I have discussed before in my other Facebook Articles, it can be difficult to add external services onto your Facebook page. As I have covered previously it is possible to add a Donation Button and Google Analytics to your page if your willing to play with a bit of HTML code.
Facebook Stealing your Fan Page Keywords for Spam
- 09 May 10
A change to Facebook is having an unintended impact on Charity / Non-profits, Howard Lake of UK Fundraising let me know that the change was already having a negative impact on charities.
Let me explain what has happened, Facebook created a system called "Pages" a few years ago this system was supposed to be used by Brands to build a place where normal users could connect and reference that brand.
What Facebook didn't count on was users creating Pages for all sorts of purposes including creating negative pages about a brand or personality.
To solve the problem a few weeks ago they created "Community Pages" these pages are created automatically by Facebook and have NO ADMIN.
Add Google Analytics to your Charity Facebook Page
- 27 Apr 10
First off I have to give props to @TheSourceress for mentioning this to me, it is possible to add Google Analytics to you Facebook Page. I'm kicking myself that I didn't think of this myself as it's based on a very old way of tracking web impressions.
Ok first off why a normal Google Analytics code won't work on Facebook
You see Facebook blocks any kind of scripting language from running inside the Facebook system, this is done for security but means that the Java Script used by Google is deleted as soon as you try to add it to your Facebook pages.
Facebooks Open Graph and Fundraising
- 22 Apr 10
Today the very fabric of Online Fundraising has been ripped apart with Facebooks announcement of Open Graph and the Graph API. In short Facebook just allowed you to collect and store ANY data a user is willing to share with you.
On top of that the amount and types of data that Open Graph will allow is mind blowing, everything from who a person connects to right down to the things like like in and outside of Facebook and the services they connect with.
