From the monthly archives:

April 2009

Post image for Thought Labs does a makeover for the West Point Association of Graduates Facebook Public Profile

As part of the webinar on Taking Your Facebook Page to the Next Level, John Maver went through each change that Thought Labs made to the West Point Association of Graduates Facebook Public Profile to update it to use best practices. Look at the presentation on slideshare here.

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Post image for Cappy Popp to be on panel at GiT Boston Presents: Using Social Media in your Organization

On May 6th, from 6:00PM to 9:00PM, Girls In Tech Boston is holding a panel discussion on best practices for social media in organizations.
Cappy Popp will be focusing on how companies can take advantage of the great features of the new Facebook Public Profiles. Register for the event here.

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John Maver will be presenting a makeover of the West Point Association of Graduates’ Facebook Public Profile at the Take Your Facebook Page to the Next Level Webinar on 4/23 from 3:00PM – 4:00PM EST. John will be going over how Thought Labs used best practices to improve the effectiveness and engagement of the Public [...]

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Facebook today announced Quick Transitions, an Ajax-backed technology for enabling faster canvas page loads in Facebook Applications. Does it work? Not at the moment.

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Selling to CIOs is a complex and daunting task. Make sure you do your homework and know what they are looking for. Know their industry, pain points, and competitors. Prepare and be ready for pointed questions about ROI of your solution.

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Facebook is constantly tweaking their layout and feature set, with the increasing the sharing of relevant information among friends. Recently, Facebook changed a few things about Facebook Pages for brands to make them more viral and more authentic.
First, Facebook has started adding popular Pages to the Suggestions for People You May Know. This is great [...]

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Dealing with negative comments on Twitter or your blog is an effective skill that can help turn detractors into advocates.

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Post image for Catching The Social Media Virus

The chance of coming down with a virus depends on a number of things

how many people are exposing you to it
whether you have seen it before
how much energy is put into fighting it

Social media infects companies in the same way. If many of the company’s employees and decision makers have used Facebook, Twitter, a blog [...]

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Late last year, Twitter was abuzz with people talking about The Twitter Secret. Only some knew it, and they weren’t telling unless you followed them, paid them, etc. It turned out to be nothing more than a bug at twitter.com that allowed sending Direct Messages longer than 140 characters. The hype was way better than [...]

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