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image thumb11 People Do Matter To Facebook: Social Network Launches Official Privacy Settings Page

Seeing the discontented reaction of the people with its ever confusing privacy settings and that they were actually searching Google on how to delete or deactivate their accounts Facebook gave it’s privacy settings a makeover and simplified those. How many of you found them simplified enough? Well that’s another story, but just a tip, the social network now has an official Facebook and Privacy Page. Like it or not.

Users were left surprised and shocked out of their wits when news broke forth that Facebook, MySpace and other social networks were leaking user data to advertising networks. That surprise was fueled by anger when a few instant messaged from Zuckerberg revealed that he thought users were stupid for trusting him and the network with their information. It has taken a lot of time for the management, especially its CEO and founder to realize and admit the privacy flaws. To cut the long tale short, Facebook is gearing up  to portray a more user friendly image of itself for its valued users and now providing them a central page to communicate in connection to privacy settings.

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image thumb38 A Facebook Page For A Cause: Betty White Should Host Academy Award!

While every Tom, Dick and Harry is out making the most of Facebook by carrying their influence or creating a Fan Page for a cause. From fan pages for politicians or those by employees who were fired because they caught a thief on duty, the social network is the best place to get the message across to the masses. Today reports of a celebrity’s page going wild are circling the Web.

Betty White mustn’t have been aware that doing Saturday Night Live would have her fans go crazy and actually launch a campaign that for an even bigger cause: The Academy Awards. The official Page for Betty White To Host Academy Awards has already got over 21,000 fans and that is no where close to seeing a halt. The popularity is obvious and is made concrete by the fact that her SNL show gave NBC its highest ratings in a period of around 2 years and it was really something worth that people actually believe that the Academy Awards will do wonders with audience if she is there.

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image thumb17 7 Must Know Tips For Facebook Fan Page Owners

It will surprise me greatly if you happen to have a Web presence and yet not have a Facebook Fan page. In my opinion it is the best possible way to gain exposure for your brand or a cause. It can be a page for your charity that you can manage at ease without actually having a Web page that is administered by a web master, plus it is far more easier to invite friends, friends of friends over. The social network as we all know talked pretty loudly about opening up and making the Web revolve around Facebook at this years’ f8. One reason why you see a Like button on every site [almost] and emphasis to have data on the social network more open.

This obviously means it also has the fan pages in mind and to get more traffic to these pages. Call it Search Engine Optimization or tweaking your page to get more eyes, it is clear that more people should be linked back to Facebook and kept within its platform. Today we will talk about the most common of strategies that every Facebook Page owner must be aware of:

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image thumb Don’t Stop Shoplifters! You Might Get Fired For Doing Good!

That is exactly the message sent across by Sprint when it fired two of its employees for they helped catch a shoplifter in a mall while they were on a lunch break. What a stupid thing to do and the reason? Sprint thinks it is a behavioral issue.

Excuse me? But how is that a behavioral issue? Did they ask the thief to snatch a lady’s bag and run away? Or did they catch the thief and slapped everyone else in the shopping mall? Not at all, the simple reason is the two guys took a 15 minute break that they are given on an 8 hour shift and instead of munching on some hot dogs, they helped the plaza guard catch the thief who was in possession of items worth hundreds of dollars. Ironic.

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image thumb13 Fox Releases Interactive ‘Glee’ Trailer: Become A Fan Right From The Video

What ever has to go big, no matter how famous it already is, must make use of Facebook. The latest one if giving air to the fan base of Glee, one of the famous TV shows at FOX. The series is set to make a comeback next week and FOX thought that it would rather create some hype right from the trailers on numerous sites like YouTube and Facebook.

The promo is quite impressive and lets you become a fan of actors by clicking the headshots of the characters right from the player. It makes the most of your time and ensures that each viewer hit the Become a Fan button at the top of the player. It also lets you share the same on your social network’s profile. Powered by Coincident TV, the same name that put forth the Avatar trailer, it does quite a decent job. Glee isn’t the first show that is utilizing the social network to maximize reach and engage users. We have seen the American Idol pull a similar trick with the coming of its new season.

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image thumb13 Absolut Vodka Brings Jay Z’s NY Z To Facebook, Thanks To ABSOLUT Fan Page

Well you might be too far to attend Metallica’s concert in Israel at half a price thanks to Facebook and even more as they might not be held in your city, but complain not! At least Jay-Z fans who are spread across the globe. The artist has made up a deal with Absolut Vodka to bring his fans a latest documentary titled; NY-Z.

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image thumb10 Leveraging Farmville And The Likes – Not a Bad Idea To Amass Fans On Your Page

Now when your fans increase from 1 to 5 it isn’t worth talking about anything but if a single step of yours pushes you from 100,000 to 500,000, it’s worth every word I write. Microsoft has surged overnight from having 100,000 followers to 500,000. What was their magic spell? Give those Farmville addicts currency in exchange of becoming a fan of Bing on its Facebook fan page.

The killer idea was that they enticed users to join in without actually having to leave their game and become fans of Bing. The trouble is who exactly is becoming a fan there? I mean you can have all sorts of people joining in for a bribe of the ever important Facebook Credits or some worthless virtual currency. The purpose here was primarily to make Bing the default search engine choice when it comes to finding tips for the game. How stupid. I mean wouldn’t it be easier for users to figure those out on blogs or with the friends who are busy engaged in the game as well?

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image thumb5 Hella Should Be A Real Number: So Desires A Facebook Fan Page

image thumb6 Hella Should Be A Real Number: So Desires A Facebook Fan Page

If flues of all kinds go viral in the real world, it only takes a crazy idea to go viral on Facebook. I am so not wrong when I say this as we have seen this happen with so many fan pages. Be they purposeful or plain pointless, there are people who will support the idea. The latest one erupting with fans is there to make Hella a real number. How?

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image thumb101 Coca Cola In Full Swing To Use Facebook For Philanthropy And Brand Promotion

If you are a brand trying to capture a good amount of air time to market your name, be philanthropic and utilize the power of social media, know that all this can be done. The example is Coca-Cola that has plans to to integrate ads, philanthropic work with Social media and the tool is Facebook for the socializing purpose. Both the beverage manufacturer and Facebook have shook hands to add more social aspect to the campaign as Coca-Cola will have two ads during the Super Bowl XLIV on CBS on February 7.

The Fan page is all about philanthropy and carries the slogan of Live Positively enabling fans to send virtual gifts to their friends and families. Each gift sent would provide $1 to the Boys and Girls Club of America through out the campaign. This campaign will be running alongside the commercials the traditional television commercials though out the period till the date. The whole thing is in connection with Coca-Cola’s motto of doing a little good while refreshing people.

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image thumb61 Create Newsletter For Your Facebook Fan Pages With NutshellMail

There is already quite a lot planned to happen for Facebook users, primarily the page administrators who can keep a better eye on what engages their fans the most. While that was something on the Facebook’s part, NutshellMail, the startup we had covered some time back is making a return with a new app.

The application works for fan pages on the social network letting you generate a newsletter for the updates on your fan page. So what exactly is the need for this? Think of it how many of your fans actually engage? Forget that, how many actually visit your page often or even in a week? Not all given the bulk of pages they actually have. With NutshellMail, things ease up a bit as the application would enable you create newsletter of the fan page and share it with your fans via email, which in some manner guarantees higher chances of engagement. The application works quite simply as the administrators can add the application to the fan page with an accompanying tab that reads Email Newsletter to promote it.

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