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The Facebook Marketing Toolbox: 100 Tools and Tips to Tap the Facebook Customer Base

Insidecrm has a wonderful post on 100 tools and tips on Facebook Marketing. It is an exhaustive collection and covers most of the important links which would assist you to understand the nitty-gritty of Facebook marketing.

Some of the popular ones include:
# How to Effectively Advertise on Facebook
# Social Networks Find Ways to Monetize User Data
# Facebook Marketplace

Check-out the post right now on INSIDECRM

http://www.insidecrm.com/features/facebook-marketing-toolbox-012308/

Internet vs media

app In Canada, there’s something called the Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA), which prohibits the publication of information by any means. Then if a minor is the victim of a crime, then the media can’t run around saying the minor’s name. We have something similar here in the US and until recently, it’s usually been followed by most media outlets. That is, until the Internet came around. A young girl in Toronto, named Stefanie Rengel, was brutally stabbed by two fellow teens on New Years Day for reasons that are yet unknown. In Stefanie’s case, that’s exactly what happened, as multiple “tribute” groups were created in her memory. People wanted to show their support for her and remember her life together, but what they were inadvertently doing was breaking the YCJA by “reporting” on her death. People are on the Internet more and more and we’re getting our news from it now more than ever in the past. What happens when somebody breaks a gag order by posting about something on their Facebook page? Or writing about it on their blog or away message? What I feel is that this is not the breaking of the law as I think we need to check what kind of the reporting has been done on net by the people. Since it was just a tribute to a girl and just to make the haunting issue alive in public I feel that this should not be a big problem. There was nothing written which was against her personality or which can hurt her image this should not be taken as an issue by the media rather they should support these kinds of deeds which can help to stop these kinds of episodes in future .

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Mozer: Another User Friendly Application by Facebook

Another very cool application that will be satisfying many users. You want to know why and how? Let’s see. It’s called The Mozer and it makes your profile into a mosaic made up of your friends’ profile pictures. For those who are not quite sure what exactly a mosaic is, I’ve provided the useful information about this application which is used by many users. It helps you not to reveal your identity to the public and also makes your wish to add your own picture on your profile. The application is completely easy to use. It makes a mosaic out of whatever picture your profile picture happens to be at that time, so there’s no limit to what you can Moze.

 

mozer Mozer takes a minute to display the result.It then shows you a high-resolution version of your mosaic and lets you zoom in all the way to the natural size of the profile pictures of the contacts making up your mosaic. You can download the high-resolution copy if you invite 20 friends or medium-resolution if you only want to invite 10.It also shows you the mosaics created for all of your contacts who have also been “Mozed”. It’s really a valuable application as in terms of the security .I eel will satisfy many of the users. After you have used this application .It will give result somewhat as shown in the pic below. It’s a Mozed pic of a user. Check it out!!

Obama Effect: 1Million Downloads Of Facebook Application

 

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ABC is claiming that more than a million Facebook users have downloaded ABC News’ U.S. Politics application.
In early December, ABC’s Facebook app was being downloaded at a pace of 10k per week; then something happened. Barack Obama’s upset win in Iowa last week? Obama, after all, is the king of Facebook, with 206k "friends" this week, up 19.6% from last week and more than triple Hillary Clinton’s 61k.

Watch out Hilary!

Meanwhile, we are just as surprised by ABC’s ratings for both debates: 9.36 million tuned in for the Democrats and 7.35 million for the Republicans according to media research on what is usually a sleepy Saturday night. Previous attempts to tie youth-oriented web hits like YouTube and MySpace with Presidential politics have generated underwhelming numbers.

Presidential Campaign: The Facebook Way

fbscreenshot2 Initially the idea was to leverage the social network Facebook and its reach to let people express their views on the presidential fight between Democratic and Republican candidates via the message board on Facebook. However, one can say that coming down to the ground reality one would be better off not talking about it.

Why ? That’s what you would think. Well actually, although the messages have been huge in number with close to 35,000 soundboard messages being out there the key problem is technical in nature. Problems like browser refreshing frequency, with about 1.75 million characters out there ! definitely a real problem.

The opinion from the majority of Facebookers is that Hillary Clinton is "onto Barack like a Rottweiler" one moment and "has about as much experience and common sense as an avacado [sic]" the next. Ron Paul is a "looney" to some, but "the only one who understands economics" and "the only logical and realistic choice," to others.

According to Facebook the entire project has been extremely successful ! The only thing that Facebook wants to solve is the problem of reading/sorting out the Archived ‘Soundboard messages’. Understandably, it is a big mess for all those users who want to scan through what has been said in the past :)

News & Image Credits: News.com Story here