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I’ve noted before that Facebook Pages (not personal profiles) have some growing up to do. One of the features I’ve been waiting for is to have Facebook Page updates published somewhere OUTSIDE Facebook. Pages are public and Google can find them, but there was no way to have updates on the Page republished or cross-posted somewhere else.

Until now. Facebook released a Twitter Exporter Tool that allows Page updates to go out to Twitter. Finally a step in the right (or outside the wall) direction!

It’s not the cleanest way to republish your Facebook Page content … Continue Reading

Facebook Pages are great ways to get your brand on Facebook. It’s a better solution for exetnding your brand into Facebook when compared to having a profile or using Facebook Groups. In short, the advantage of using a Page vs a Group are:

1. Facebook Pages are public outside of Facebook (Google can find it)
2. Facebook Groups are private inside Facebook (only Facebook people see Groups)
3. To join a Facebook Page, you become a Fan. Updates from the Page are pushed into fan’s News Feed.
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I’m a big fan of FriendFeed for several reasons, but one thing I really like about it is the ability to set up lists and groups to help me manage the folks I follow.

Steve Rubel wrote last week about Five Fantastic Friendfeed Filters for Flow and I agree with him on it. On the left you’ll see a screenshot of the lists and groups I’m currently using.

There are 2 significant differences in lists and groups on FriendFeed: 1. Lists are … Continue Reading

If you are already familiar with RSS and use it, this post is not for you. Check out the sidebars for other things to do for now. This is for people who do not use or understand the idea of subscribing to websites but want to learn.

You’ll notice here at Orangejack, we offer several ways to subscribe to us, including RSS. Let’s get the irrelevant stuff out of the way first. RSS is short for Really Simple Syndication. All that means is that there are agreed-upon … Continue Reading

You may have seen services that will submit your website to hundreds of search engines. Some do it for free while others charge you.

Before you do that, stop and ask yourself a simple question: can you think of more than six?

I’m here to tell you that you don’t need to do that. Truth is, Google is the dominant search engine and if they know about you chances are everyone else will. But do you even need to tell Google you exist? Not really. If a site Google already knows about links to you, Google will find you.

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If you’re using FriendFeed (and many more people are nowadays), there are a couple of default settings I feel everyone should set up. Please? This isn’t a post to convince you to use it or why you should. It’s for people already on there or thinking about going there though I added some thoughts about it at the end.

At the top of your FriendFeed profile page you’ll see room for some bio information. See mine. You’ll see there is a link off to the right you can make edits to your settings.

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I’ve been thinking about a way to think of Twitter in a way that most people could relate:
Twitter is like an email with a no subject line and a short statement in the body.
As you probably know, you only get 140 characters to publish something on Twitter and that’s all you get.  It’s a statement where you share something.

Twitter allows people to direct their updates to particular people as well as all people (Twitter is public), and tag their messages for certain subjects just like email:

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I made a few slight changes to my free eBook: Getting Started with Social Media (PDF)

Please feel free to download and freely distribute the eBook. You can access it from the Orangejack eBook page.
updated Jan 2009: This eBook is written as a guide or checklist to get yourself or your small business started with social media. This is your starting point. Also included is a handy chart you can print and use to fill in your various social media profile information to have on file.

When you are done, you may want to check out more … Continue Reading

Editor’s Note: This article was written by Rob Williams of Orangejack LLC for the Florida Nurses Association. You are welcome to use this article in it’s entirity for your own publication with proper attribution including a link to orangejack.com.

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It has never been easier than it is today to have a personal online presence. Websites like MySpace, Facebook, blogs, and all sorts of other social sites allow anyone to easily share and publish anything online. People are uploading videos to YouTube.com, sharing photos on Flickr.com, and finding interesting … Continue Reading

We have a website you may or not know about: 170spoons.com – a site where we provide Internet tips and training. We started it earlier this year but the site became neglected.  Slowly we’re rebuilding the site. So…

If you are on Facebook and you tend to update your status line and you like to text message people, there is no reason you shouldn’t also be on Twitter.  Today on 170spoons I explain why and how.

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