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Written by Andy on August 18, 2009 - 0 Comments
Categories: Social Media

Before just jumping in and building blogs and Twitter and facebook and Linked-in etc, think about the end in mind; how are you going to engage with people, what tone are you going to use, what type of content are you going to publish and the frequency. If you think and plan the network through [...]

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Facebook Vanity URL’s also for Pages

Written by Andy on July 28, 2009 - 0 Comments
Categories: Social Media

As of June 29, 2009 , Facebook fan pages with over 100 fans can now also get their customised/vanity url. To do this go to http://www.facebook.com/username/ and select the username for any fan pages that you administer.
As an example, a page that would originally have be fount at
http://new.facebook.com/pages/the-harcombe-diet/100265415
is now at
www.facebook.com/theharcombediet.
I like this feature. It makes [...]

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How will you socialise this summer?

Written by Andy on July 20, 2009 - 1 Comment
Categories: Social Media

For sure, you’ll be having the odd Barbq, dinner party, evening down the pub, weekend watching the cricket but what about your online social network?
Many businesses have a quiet period over the summer and many close for the holiday period. This year, unfortunately, some may not reopen.
The holiday period is a great time to take [...]

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Grab Your Facebook Vanity URL.

Written by Andy on July 16, 2009 - 0 Comments
Categories: Social Media

I’m not a regular user of #Facebook and, consequently, have missed out on getting my own ‘Vanity URL’.  Having such an unusual name, I wouldn’t have thought it would have been a problem. However, it would appear that someone has pipped me to the post and grabbed my name so facebook.com/andyharcombe is not, actually, me. [...]

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