Are you missing important updates in your Facebook news feed?
Have you noticed lately that you are missing updates from friends and pages? Awhile back Facebook made some changes to the News feed and in this post we’d like to show you how you can adjust the settings in your news feed so you don’t miss those important updates. First, while logged into your Facebook [...]
Facebook Page upgrade – eight changes you need to be aware of
On Friday Feb 11th Facebook rolled-out a major upgrade to Facebook Pages – here are eight you need to be aware of: Photos at the top: The most recent photos that you post to the Wall of a Page you admin, or photos you tag your Page in, will appear here. This area will not [...]
Facebook security tip – control apps that friends add
Facebook is an awesome platform which enables connection and communication that has never been possible. However, as a result of its personal nature it does require that you understand privacy on the site. Here is one area that you should take a careful look at. When friends add applications to their profile, whether it’s a [...]
Facebook and Skype integration – a sign of the times
As you know Facebook and Skype announced their integration agreement last week. From Facebook: Skype your Facebook Friends From Skype: Skype with Facebook integration and group video calling I found this really good write up of the integration with some nice screen shots to help you set it all up: Skype Rolls Out Version 5.0 [...]
Facebook makes a small (but very useful) update
In all our trainings on the use of Facebook in a business environment, one of the biggest concerns to people has always been: “But I don’t want to mix my business contacts with my personal friends” Maybe you have felt the same. Of course it is entirely possible to have various groups of people connected [...]
Understanding Facebook Places privacy settings
In the early hours of this morning (South African time) Facebook entered the geo-location game. With this post we would like to give some insights on privacy that you need to be aware of. In their blog post on the launch of Facebook Places, Facebook says the following: “With Places, you are in control of [...]
A few weeks ago while putting the final touches to the Integrating Social Media and Future Marketing Initiatives Master Class programme Brian Rea (who is co-presenting the programme with us) made the observation that many businesses are being offered social media as a technology solution by their digital agencies/web developers. Unfortunately this has been the [...]
Having a relevant web presence for your business has never been more important. This is especially the case as the web transforms into a powerful communication platform. To keep up we have had to re-engineer our website to accommodate the rapidly evolving web and put us in a position to incorporate changes as they happen. So we [...]
So what is social media marketing?
During a large part of 2009 we spent a considerable amount of time helping small business owners understand the communication tools that make up the modern web and how to use these in a business setting. (We will continue to give this attention during 2010) As social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter are now [...]
It's true every website is now social!
Back in June of this year Jeremiah Owyang spoke about how every website will become social Looking at how I use the internet I would say that was a very accurate description of how things would be. Firstly LOTS of websites are upgrading to include share features. For example if you are on a site [...]







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