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Facebook: The Missing Manual
May 2, 2010 | 
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Facebook’s popularity is skyrocketing, drawing more than 400 million people to this combination online village green, personal website creator, and souped-up address book. But one thing you won’t get when signing up is a printed manual. Enter Facebook: The Missing Manual, Second Edition — the witty, authoritative guide you need, now revised and updated to include all of Facebook’s latest features.
Coverage includes:
- Getting started, getting connected. Signing up is easy, but the real payoff comes when you tap into networks of coworkers, classmates, and friends. This book explains it all-including how to pick and choose who gets to see what, and how to steer clear of people you want to avoid.
- Adding applications. Ranging from silly (fortune cookies and video games) to serious (goal tracking), thousands of mini-programs can transform your Facebook account into an addictive, one-stop resource. Learn how to find and install your favorites.
- Facebook for grownups and businesspeople. Facebook isn’t just for Junior anymore. Thousands of companies and business professionals use the site for everything from project collaboration and advertising to filling (and finding) jobs. This book is written for adults of all ages.
- Protecting your privacy. Creeps are everywhere online, but on Facebook you can feel especially exposed with so much personal info on display. This book offers an easy-to-follow, multi-pronged approach to staying safe.
How-to Create a Facebook Event By E. A. Vander Veer
Whether you want to host a product launch party, start a study group at the local coffee shop, or have a community meeting, it’s easy to set up your own events on Facebook. Here’s what you do:
1. On your Home page, click the Events link.
Note: If an event is closely tied to a Facebook Group you created or that you’ve been made administrator of—you want to set up a monthly face-to-face meeting of yourbook club, for example—you’ll want to head to your Group’s profile page, click Create Group Event, and then follow steps 3–8 below. Doing so tells Facebook that your Group is hosting the event and lets you invite all the Group’s members in one fell swoop by turning on the checkbox next to “Invite Members of the host group [your Group’s name]” that appears on the “Step 3: Invite Friends” tab (see step 8).
2. On the Events page that appears, click the “Create an Event” button.
3. On the “Step 1: Create Event” page, fill out as many of the fields as possible. You have to fill out some fields—like the event’s name—but you should fill in as many of the other fields as you can. Doing so makes events easier for people to find, because they can search on every word you add. It also encourages people to RSVP, since the more people know about an event (and the better you make it sound), the more likely they are to attend. Make sure you pick an event name you like, because after you create your event, you can’t change what it’s called. (You can, however, delete the event and create a new one with a different name. )
4. Decide how open you want your event to be. Facebook assumes you want to plan an open event that everyone on the site can view and attend, and that all attendees can contribute to by uploading photos, videos, links, and Wall posts. If that’s fine with you–for example, if your event is one that’s open to the public and is listed in the local newspapers, or is an attend-in-spirit-only kind of event–you don’t have to do a thing. Otherwise, you need to click the Privacy drop-down list and choose either Closed or Secret. For most face-to-face events, you’ll want to choose Closed so you don’t get a bunch of riffraff showing up. If you have a very specific, finite guest list and the event is private (such as a business meeting or intimate birthday gathering), choose Secret; that way, you can invite just the folks on your list and not have to worry about strangers requesting invitations.
5. Click the Create Event button. Facebook posts a bare-bones version of your event on the site that people can find in searches (unless you made the event secret).
6. On the “Step 2: Add Details” page that appears, browse for the image file you want to appear on your event listing, and then click Upload Picture. Technically, this step is optional, but an appropriate and clever photo, drawing, or logo will make your event’s listing a lot more appealing.
7. Add as much additional info as you want, tweak a few settings, and then click the “Save and Continue” button. You don’t have to go hog wild, but adding a description and choosing an event type goes a long way toward helping folks find your event.
8. Invite some guests. Facebook lists your friends and Friend Lists on the “Step 3: Invite Friends” page that appears, so all you need to do is choose who you want to invite and then click Send Invitations.
Note: Facebook events are supposed to be for your friends (or for the members of Groups you’re in charge of). So you can’t invite Facebook members to events unless they’re your friends—but you can invite pals who aren’t yet Facebook members. To do so, on the “Step 3: Invite Friends” page, head to the “Invite People via Email” field and type in email addresses separated by commas, and then click Send Invitations.
You can change your event after you create it. First, display the event’s profile (on your Home page, click the Events link and then, when the list of your events appears, click the name of the event you want to change). Then, on the right side of the event’s profile page, click one of the options, such as “Edit Event”, “Invite People to Come”, or “Cancel This Event”.
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Facebook Marketing: Leverage Social Media to Grow Your Business
- ISBN13: 9780789738028
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Profit from Facebook!
High-Impact, Low-Cost Social Marketing That Works!
With more than 80,000,000 affluent, savvy members, Facebook is today’s fastest-growing marketing opportunity! But traditional marketing methods won’t work here. In Facebook Marketing, best-selling author Steven Holzner reveals new social marketing techniques that do work, and shows you exactly how to make the most of them. Using true case studies, Holzner introduces powerful new techniques from today’s smartest Facebook marketers. . . and helps you avoid pitfalls that can cost you money and credibility. No matter what business you’re in, you’ll learn how to create bottom-up, “viral” Facebook marketing programs that achieve maximum results at minimum cost!
- Crafting your Facebook profile for maximum impact
- Getting into the Facebook community: crucial dos and don’ts
- Joining the right Facebook Groups—or starting your own
- Creating a Facebook blog that attracts paying customers
- Promoting products and services with free Facebook Marketplace classifieds
- Hosting your own Facebook events: from company picnics to concerts
- Successfully advertising on Facebook, without overspending
- Promoting your business within today’s most popular Facebook applications
- Tracking the results of your advertising
- Using brand-new viral video marketing techniques
- Driving even more Web traffic to your Facebook pages
- Building your own Facebook applications
Introduction 1
1 Targeting Your Profile 5
Welcome to Facebook Marketing 5
Welcome to Facebook 7
Getting Started with Facebook 8
The Profile Tab 12
Across the Top 13
The Search Bar 15
Name, Photo, Networks, and Status 18
The Mini-Feed Section 19
The Friends and Friends in Other Networks Sections 19
The Photos Section 21
The Groups Section 23
The Information Section 24
The Education and Work Section 24
The Gifts Section 25
The Wall Section 25
Editing Your Profile 25
Setting Profile Privacy 27
The Friends Tab 31
Searching for Friends 31
Managing Your Friends 33
Creating Friend Lists 35
The Inbox Tab 37
Reading Messages 38
Avoiding Spam 39
Reading Notifications 39
Composing Messages 40
Getting Help 41
2 Facebook Groups 45
Welcome to Facebook Groups 45
Messaging Your Members 46
A Word About Spam 46
Joining Facebook Groups 47
What Groups Are Available? 47
Taking a Look at a Group 51
How Do I Join a Group? 54
Which Groups Can I Join? 54
Creating Your Own Facebook Groups 55
Creating Your Group 57
Customizing Your Group 58
Inviting Friends to Join Your Group 61
Seeing Your New Group 65
Managing Your New Group 67
Deleting a Group 70
3 Creating Your Own Pages 71
Welcome to Facebook Pages 71
Pages from a Marketing Perspective 72
Viral Marketing with Pages 73
Page Authenticity 74
Finding Pages 75
Searching for Pages 76
Browsing Pages by Type 78
Browsing All Pages 79
Becoming a Fan of a Page 80
Examining a Page 83
Sharing a Page 85
Creating Your Own Page 88
Examining Your New Page 92
Editing Your Page 94
Updating Your Fans 98
Promoting Your Page 99
4 Hosting Your Own Facebook Events 101
Welcome to Facebook Events 101
All About Facebook Events 102
Checking Out Your Friends’ Events 103
Taking a Look at an Event 104
The Information Section 106
The Description Section 107
The Other Information Section 109
The Photos,Video, and Posted Items Section 109
The Confirmed Guests Section 109
The Other Invites Section 109
The Wall 110
The Event Type and Admins Section 110
Adding an Event to Your Event List 110
Browsing for Events 113
Searching for Events 113
Creating an Event 115
Customizing an Event 117
Uploading the Image for the Event 118
Setting Event Options 118
Setting Event Access 119
Inviting People to Your Event 119
Seeing Your Event 122
Managing and Publicizing Your Event 124
Message All Guests 1. . .
Facebook Marketing: Leverage Social Media to Grow Your Business
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- ISBN13: 9780470275559
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product DescriptionMySpace has more than 100 million active users. For many of them, MySpace is their central hub for connecting and communicating. They come to meet new people, keep up to date with family members, learn about new products and services, or catch up on the latest news. They come to check out blogs or to share their music. Don’t you just love the MySpace community?
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The PayPal Wars: Battles With Ebay, the Media, the Mafia, and the Rest of Planet Earth
Product DescriptionThis is not your ordinary business book! With its fast-paced narrative and an unabashedly pro-entrepreneurial message, The PayPal Wars is a gripping and intelligent read from cover to cover. This candid insider’s account shows firsthand how PayPal launched its online payment service and set out to revolutionize the world’s currency markets. Along the way the startup’s plucky entrepreneurs survived the dot-com bust and fended off a competitive assault by the auction giant eBay. But when hordes of government regulators, trial lawyers, and organized crime rings targeted PayPal for destruction, its quest to make Internet history turned into a desperate struggle for survival.
The PayPal Wars was honored by USA Book News as one of the top business books in its “Best Books 2004″ awards. The Laissez Faire Book Club praised its suspenseful narrative, and Doug Bandow of the Cato Institute hailed it as “an inspiring story. ” Read The PayPal Wars for yourself and find out what all the talk is about.
The PayPal Wars: Battles With Ebay, the Media, the Mafia, and the Rest of Planet Earth
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