Now You Can Check in on Twitter Through Facebook Places
This post is syndicated from the SocialToo Blog – please check it out! I think this feature’s pretty cool: Recently Facebook launched the ability for users to checkin to any place with their mobile phone, sharing with their Facebook friends where they are and what they’re doing, but what about their Twitter friends? Services like […]
Read more...Come Learn the Secrets to Facebook Integration at Facebook Success Summit 2010
FBML’s dead. I’m saying it right here (and yes, I wrote the book). Facebook recently announced that they are moving away from FBML and more towards iFrame-based applications and Social Plugins for integration on your website and internal Facebook.com hosted applications. Does this mean the Static FBML app is going away? What will you be […]
Read more...Facebook Kills Connect, Makes App Creation Easier, Simpler
As I’ve been writing Facebook Application Development for Dummies (now available on Amazon for pre-order!), there has been one thing I have been noticing: Despite all the new focus on Facebook’s Graph API, Facebook has still had a lot of conflicting focus on their old, more complicated, Connect APIs, making it a fun thing to […]
Read more...Facebook Questions as a Strategy – Answering Questions for Your Brand
Image via Wikipedia In the last few weeks Facebook has been slowly rolling out a feature that, while not exactly new in concept, I think gives businesses and brands another opportunity to think strategy surrounding their Facebook efforts. The feature is Facebook Questions. The feature is pretty much a re-release of Facebook Polls (see my […]
Read more...Comcast, Where’s the Block Button for My TV?
Around College Football Season every year my family bites the bullet and orders cable for several months in order to both take advantage of the latest Cable deal, and allow us to see my two Cougars (University of Houston and BYU) try to make it to a Bowl game. Every year we get a digital […]
Read more..."Be a Mormon!" – Making Things Go Viral
I’m sharing this partly because I’m excited Mormons were mentioned (I am in charge of much of the social technology integration and strategy for the LDS Church as one of the many things I do), but also because there’s some truth to it. As Mormons, we get Marketing and Social Media, but I argue it’s […]
Read more...Mobile, Tablets, and the Need for an Extended E-Reading Experience
Imagine buying a book from the book store and only being allowed to use a yellow highlighter to highlight that book and not being able to add any notes as you read it. Seems pretty ridiculous, doesn’t it? Yet we’re forced into that with today’s default readers on devices such as the iPhone and iPad, […]
Read more...The Art of Ignoring. Why @XboxSupport Convinced Me to Leave Microsoft.
There is such a thing as too much Social Media. I’m talking about the art of ignoring. We see accounts such as @comcastcares and @richardatdell and various other accounts on Twitter that do an excellent job at handling customer support and actually gaining, as well as retaining customers as a result, all while maintaining a […]
Read more...Facebook-hosted "Pages" are No Longer Necessary – Here’s Why
Social Media Examiner shared some advice I gave on their Facebook Page recently regarding the warning about Facebook “boxes” being removed from Facebook Pages in the next week. The reminder was met with a lot of concern from subscribers, who had grown attached to the ability to customize the look and feel of their Facebook […]
Read more...Google Reader is Behind the Times – Here is What They Can Do to Fix That
As anyone who knows me can attest, I’m a huge Google Reader user and fan. Despite users like Robert Scoble and others declaring RSS Readers dead, I still find utility from being able to finely adapt my reading experience by selecting what I want to subscribe to on the web. As a blogger, it’s one […]
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