tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36533129463809935742024-03-07T20:28:57.567-08:00Many Social Networking TipsElbert Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02112291831189307837noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653312946380993574.post-66196930630458185622011-09-17T00:40:00.000-07:002011-09-17T00:43:31.276-07:00List of Other Blogs<br />
<a href="http://divineprovidenceproverbs.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: blue;">http://divineprovidenceproverbs.blogspot.com/</span></a><br />
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This is my simpler modern English re-write of half of the Christian mystic
Emmanuel Swedenborg's book <u>Divine Providence</u>. His complicated older
English style paragraphs are condensed into a moreso proverbs-like expression.<br />
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<a href="http://many-social-networking-tips.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: blue;">http://many-social-networking-tips.blogspot.com/</span></a><br />
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These are some tips on how to use several social networking websites.<br />
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<a href="http://socialmediaaction.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: blue;">http://socialmediaaction.blogspot.com/</span></a><br />
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This is an action plan for promoting business websites to make sales in
three social networking community websites: Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. <br />
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<a href="http://googlehowtoskills.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: blue;">http://googlehowtoskills.blogspot.com/</span></a></div>
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This is a larger blog teaching quite a few detailed Google
skills:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Little-known details skills,
Google Chrome web browser, Google Maps, Google Earth Free, Google News, Picasa
photos utility, Gmail, Google Notebook, Blogger.com, Google Documents, etc. <o:p></o:p></div>
Elbert Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02112291831189307837noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653312946380993574.post-46107677795426400792011-02-22T16:59:00.001-08:002011-02-22T16:59:34.392-08:0010 Flashy Flickr Tips<h1 align="center" style="margin: 0.67em 0in; text-align: center;">10 Flashy Flickr Tips: Detailed<br />
Tagging, Privacy Settings, More</h1><br />
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If you’re an avid photographer or a rabid photo organizer, or if you just<br />
love looking through photo albums, Flickr is the social network for you. It’s<br />
the most widely used free online photo sharing service, thanks to its<br />
user-friendly organization tools and straightforward tagging system. The site<br />
uses an algorithm to rank the “interestingness” of photos, which helps photos<br />
explorers find stunning images and lets users search by tags, so you can find<br />
plenty of kitties to turn into Internet memes. Flickr recently updated its<br />
photo pages to put more emphasis on the individual photos while still keeping<br />
the tools for tagging, geotagging, adding people, and blogging close at hand.<br />
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<strong>1. Tag your photos</strong><br />
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Tagging your photos properly is essential for helping your friends and<br />
others find your pictures. Use tags to describe where a photo was taken, what’s<br />
in it, the image size, and what camera you used. For tags with two or more<br />
words, use quotation marks. For example, an image on Flickr of a man on a park<br />
bench included tags such as “urban,” “sun flare,” “nyc,” “iPhone,” and “black<br />
and white.”<br />
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<strong>2. Use a Flickr slideshow in your <a href="http://blog.laptopmag.com/10-flashy-flickr-tips-detailed-tagging-privacy-settings-more##"><span class="klink"><span style="color: darkgreen; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">blog</span></span></a></strong><br />
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Linking to a set of Flickr images from your blog is one thing, but if you’ve<br />
created a blog to show off the newest member of your family, a slideshow of<br />
baby’s first Christmas is the way to go. The site flickrslideshow.com creates a<br />
customizable slideshow of your images based on tags and text in them and<br />
generates the HTML code to put in your blog.<br />
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<strong>3. Geotag your vacation photos</strong><br />
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Your friends will never have to ask where you took that picture again. After<br />
uploading your images to Flickr, click on Actions and select Add your map. Drag<br />
and drop your picture on the map or enter a town or address to pinpoint your<br />
photo’s location. You can even geotag entire photo sets from the Maps tab under<br />
Organize & Create.<br />
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<strong>4. Join a Flickr group to share your photos and get inspiration</strong><br />
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Part of the fun of Flickr is sharing your photos and seeing others’ visual<br />
interpretations of a place. Join a group by clicking on Groups at the top of a<br />
page. Search for what you’re interested in or what you have photos of, such as<br />
cats, sunsets, or the Queen Mary 2.<br />
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<strong>5. Post Flickr images and videos to <a href="http://blog.laptopmag.com/10-flashy-flickr-tips-detailed-tagging-privacy-settings-more##"><span class="klink"><span style="color: darkgreen; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Twitter</span></span></a><br />
and/or to your own blog</strong><br />
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<br />
Go to Your Account, click on Sharing & Extending, scroll down to Your<br />
Blogs and click Configure your Flickr-to-blog settings. Then choose Set up your<br />
blog and enter the necessary info. Flickr supports Blogger, LiveJournal,<br />
TypePad, WordPress, and Twitter. Once your blog’s account has been linked with<br />
Flickr, simply click Blog It from the Share This bar above photos to tweet them<br />
or add them to your blog.<br />
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<strong>6. Keep your photos private</strong><br />
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One of the best things about Flickr is its front-and-center privacy<br />
controls, which you can easily modify when you upload images. You can set<br />
photos to be viewed by only you, your friends, family, or all Flickr users.<br />
Likewise, you choose who can comment and who can add notes, tags, and people.<br />
Specify your settings under the Privacy & Permissions tab under Your<br />
Account.<br />
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<strong>7. Easy e-mail uploading</strong><br />
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Don’t have time to log in to Flickr or want to quickly send a photo from<br />
your phone? On the Emails & Notifications tab under Your Account, Flickr<br />
can generate an e-mail address to which you can directly send photos. Flickr<br />
can also generate specific e-mails for sending photos to Twitter and your<br />
Flickr blog.<br />
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<strong>8. Upload photos from your smart phone</strong><br />
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Both FlickrFree for Android and Flickr for iPhone allow you to directly<br />
upload and download photos and browse through all your photos and sets. Flickr<br />
for iPhone also supports geotagging and instant uploads to Twitter.<br />
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<strong>9. Bring certain contacts closer</strong><br />
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Click on a contact’s name or go to their photostream, and Flickr will state<br />
your relationship with another user as contact, friend, or family. Click on<br />
edit to change your relationship. Promoting a contact to friend or family will<br />
give him or her access to any photos, comments, or tags that you’ve assigned as<br />
friends or family only.<br />
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<strong>10. Tag your Flickr friends in your photos</strong><br />
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Much like Facebook, Flickr lets you tag your Flickr contacts in your photos<br />
along with friends who are not on Flickr. Just click Add a Person under the<br />
Actions menu. Flickr notifies both members and non-members via e-mail that they<br />
have been added to a picture. Want to remain anonymous? Click the X next to<br />
your screen name under the People in this Photo section and no one (except for<br />
you) will be able to re-add your name.<br />
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<o:p></o:p></div>Elbert Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02112291831189307837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653312946380993574.post-84466791650966522252011-02-22T16:58:00.002-08:002011-02-22T16:58:46.138-08:0015 LinkedIn Tips<h1 align="center" style="margin: 0.67em 0in; text-align: center;">15 LinkedIn Tips to Help You Find a<br />
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LinkedIn is the leading business-oriented social networking site. If you’re<br />
interested in making professional connections with other people in your<br />
industry that could lead to future work or partnerships, LinkedIn is the place<br />
to be. Aside from traditional connection and contact sharing, highlights<br />
include LinkedIn Answers for asking questions, LinkedIn Groups for people in<br />
similar industries, and a host of LinkedIn apps that live on your profile page.<br />
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<strong>1. Get introduced to people by using connection requests</strong><br />
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If there’s someone you’d like to contact, but you don’t know them, you can<br />
request an introduction if they are connected to anyone in your network or even<br />
if they are two connections removed from you. To add this person as a<br />
connection, simply visit his or her profile and click “Get introduced through a<br />
connection,” then fill in a note asking one of your connections to make the<br />
introduction and another note to the person to which you want to be connected.<br />
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<strong>2. Show your connections where you’re going</strong><br />
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If <a href="http://blog.laptopmag.com/15-linkedin-tips-to-help-you-find-a-job-work-smarter-boost-your-career##"><span class="klink"><span style="color: darkgreen; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">your<br />
business</span></span></a> partners can see when you’ll be traveling to their<br />
cities, they can request meetings with you and all kind of opportunities can<br />
arise. To share your travel itinerary on your profile, click Add An <a href="http://blog.laptopmag.com/15-linkedin-tips-to-help-you-find-a-job-work-smarter-boost-your-career##"><span class="klink"><span style="color: darkgreen; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Application</span></span></a><br />
on the profile edit screen and select the My Travel app. You’ll have to sign up<br />
for a free account with TripIt, but then you’ll be able to show your upcoming<br />
trips and see where your contacts are traveling.<br />
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<strong>3. Use LinkedIn Answers to ask questions</strong><br />
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If you need advice, why ask just a handful of people when you can reach the<br />
entire LinkedIn community along with up to 200 of your contacts? To get<br />
started, just select Answers from the More menu at the top of the screen, then<br />
enter your query in the Ask a Question box. A new screen will appear that lets<br />
you add additional details and categorize your question based on topic. You can<br />
choose to only share the question with a select group or make it public so<br />
anyone on LinkedIn can see.=<br />
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<strong><a href="http://blog.laptopmag.com/15-linkedin-tips-to-help-you-find-a-job-work-smarter-boost-your-career/linkedingoups"></a>4.<br />
Join groups to talk with others</strong><br />
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In addition to asking questions and answering others’ queries, you can join<br />
discussion groups to network and discuss particular topics with others. To find<br />
new groups or manage your memberships, click the Groups button at the top bar.<br />
You can then see suggestions by clicking Groups You May Like. You can also<br />
search for stuff that interests you by visiting Groups Directory, or you can<br />
even create your own group.<br />
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<strong>5. Request recommendations to improve your reputation</strong><br />
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<br />
When potential <a href="http://blog.laptopmag.com/15-linkedin-tips-to-help-you-find-a-job-work-smarter-boost-your-career##"><span class="klink"><span style="color: darkgreen; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">business<br />
partners</span></span></a> and employers look at your profile, positive<br />
recommendations really stand out. You can wait and hope that your contacts will<br />
post recommendations without prompting, or you can politely request their help.<br />
To request a recommendation, select Recommendations from the Profile Menu.<br />
There you’ll see a list of all your jobs with the number of current<br />
recommendations under each. Here you can click the Manage link to delete or<br />
hide recommendations you don’t like or, better yet, click the “Ask to be<br />
endorsed” link and send a request for recommendation to coworkers and business<br />
partners.<br />
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<strong>6. Add your Twitter feed to your profile</strong><br />
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By connecting your Twitter account to your LinkedIn profile, you can share<br />
updates with everyone in your network. As long as your tweets are professional<br />
in nature, this can be a good way to keep your contacts up to date on your<br />
activities. To add a Twitter account, select Edit Profile from the Profile<br />
menu, then click “Add a Twitter account” on the profile page that appears.<br />
You’ll be asked to allow LinkedIn access to your Twitter account and to log in<br />
to Twitter.<br />
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<strong>7. Follow companies that interest you</strong><br />
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<br />
You’ve always wanted to work for Cogswell Cogs, but every time you check the<br />
“help wanted” section of their corporate site, you never see a job. Wouldn’t it<br />
be great to keep up with company turnover, job openings, and happenings for<br />
companies you want to join or even competitors you want to fail? To follow a<br />
company, simply search for the company name by selecting companies from the<br />
search bar and typing in a query. Then click on the name of the company to see<br />
its homepage. Click the follow button on the home page and select Change<br />
Following Settings. You can then decide when you’ll be notified about job<br />
openings, position changes, or company profile updates.<br />
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<strong>8. Edit your connections’ contact information to add details</strong><br />
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By default, LinkedIn only displays a certain amount of contact information<br />
for each of your connections. If a connection hasn’t chosen to list her mobile<br />
phone number or physical location, only her e-mail address will be visible.<br />
Fortunately, you can store any additional notes and contact information you<br />
have in your contacts’ records. Simply click the View/Edit contact info at the<br />
bottom of the contact Information box. Then you can add notes, phone numbers,<br />
IM names, and more that are only visible to you.<br />
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<strong>9. Put polls on your profile to see what your connections are<br />
thinking</strong><br />
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<br />
A great way to keep in touch with your connections is to put a poll on your<br />
profile and see how people vote. On the profile editing screen, click Add An<br />
Application and select Polls. Then create a multiple-choice poll with up to<br />
five possible answers. You can send the poll to all your first-degree<br />
connections or include it in a directory so anyone on Linked-In can vote.<br />
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<strong>10. Collaborate on projects using LinkedIn</strong><br />
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<br />
On your profile page, click Add An Application, then select Projects and Teamspaces<br />
by Manymoon. Then you can create a project, track enhancements and bugs, and<br />
even manage customers and post jobs related to the project. Information will<br />
appear on your profile.<br />
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<br />
<strong>11. Showcase creative work directly on your profile</strong><br />
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<br />
If you have art or other media you’ve created and want to demonstrate to<br />
potential employers, just click Add an application from the Edit Profile<br />
screen, then add Portfolio Display. You will then have to sign up for an<br />
account at Behance.net. Then just upload and describe your work.<br />
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<strong>12. Connect your WordPress blog to your profile</strong><br />
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<br />
If you run a blog on WordPress and want your contacts to keep up with your<br />
postings, select Edit Profile from the Profile menu then click Add An<br />
Application and select WordPress. Then enter the URL of your blog. You can also<br />
choose to show all recent posts or only those which have been tagged<br />
“linkedin.” The most recent four or five posts will appear on your profile<br />
page.<br />
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<strong>13. Post files directly to your profile</strong><br />
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<br />
Don’t just list your resume or link to samples of your work from your<br />
profile. Make them downloadable so people can save your work to their hard<br />
drives.<br />
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<br />
<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">To attach files to your<br />
profile, click on the Add Sections or Add An Application links on the<br />
Profile page.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">Select Box.net files as the<br />
application to use.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">Click the Add An Application<br />
button and make sure the “Display on my profile” box remains checked.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">Create a box.net account on<br />
the following screen, and then you’ll be able to start uploading files.<br />
The files you store will appear as icons directly on your profile page,<br />
which other users can then download.</li>
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<strong>14. Add connections using contacts from your e-mail account</strong><br />
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If you’re just using LinkedIn’s search box, it’s difficult to find everyone<br />
you’ve ever e-mailed to see if they have a LinkedIn account. However, you can<br />
have LinkedIn search your e-mail account’s inbox to find contacts who have a<br />
LinkedIn account.<br />
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<br />
<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">Select Add Connections from<br />
the Contacts menu.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">For a web-based e-mail<br />
account, enter your e-mail address and password into the “See Who You<br />
Already Know on LinkedIn” box.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">To import contacts from<br />
Outlook, click “Import Your Desktop Email Contacts” instead. LinkedIn will<br />
then comb through your mail and present you with a list of people you know<br />
who have LinkedIn accounts</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">Select who you want to<br />
invite, including people who are not yet on LinkedIn.</li>
</ul><br />
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<strong>12. Connect your WordPress blog to your profile</strong><br />
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<br />
If you run a blog on WordPress and want your contacts to keep up with your<br />
postings, select Edit Profile from the Profile menu then click Add An Application<br />
and select WordPress. Then enter the URL of your blog. You can also choose to<br />
show all recent posts or only those which have been tagged “linkedin.” The most<br />
recent four or five posts will appear on your profile page.<br />
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<strong>13. Post files directly to your profile</strong><br />
<br />
<br />
Don’t just list your resume or link to samples of your work from your<br />
profile. Make them downloadable so people can save your work to their hard<br />
drives.<br />
<br />
<br />
<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">To attach files to your<br />
profile, click on the Add Sections or Add An Application links on the<br />
Profile page.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">Select Box.net files as the<br />
application to use.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">Click the Add An Application<br />
button and make sure the “Display on my profile” box remains checked.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">Create a box.net account on<br />
the following screen, and then you’ll be able to start uploading files.<br />
The files you store will appear as icons directly on your profile page,<br />
which other users can then download.</li>
</ul><br />
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<strong>14. Add connections using contacts from your e-mail account</strong><br />
<br />
<br />
If you’re just using LinkedIn’s search box, it’s difficult to find everyone<br />
you’ve ever e-mailed to see if they have a LinkedIn account. However, you can<br />
have LinkedIn search your e-mail account’s inbox to find contacts who have a<br />
LinkedIn account.<br />
<br />
<br />
<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">Select Add Connections from<br />
the Contacts menu.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">For a web-based e-mail<br />
account, enter your e-mail address and password into the “See Who You<br />
Already Know on LinkedIn” box.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">To import contacts from<br />
Outlook, click “Import Your Desktop Email Contacts” instead. LinkedIn will<br />
then comb through your mail and present you with a list of people you know<br />
who have LinkedIn accounts</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">Select who you want to<br />
invite, including people who are not yet on LinkedIn.</li>
</ul><br />
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<o:p></o:p></div>Elbert Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02112291831189307837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653312946380993574.post-73064014509359075272011-02-22T16:58:00.000-08:002011-02-22T16:58:01.674-08:0020 Terrific Twitter Tips<h1 align="center" style="margin: 0.67em 0in; text-align: center;">20 Terrific Twitter Tips</h1><br />
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With 175 Million registered users and 95 million <a href="http://blog.laptopmag.com/20-terrific-twitter-tips##"><span class="klink"><span style="color: darkgreen; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">tweets</span></span></a><br />
written per day, Twitter has fast become the go to source for sharing news and<br />
information.<br />
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For those of you who are not up to <a href="http://blog.laptopmag.com/20-terrific-twitter-tips##"><span class="klink"><span style="color: darkgreen; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">speed</span></span></a>,<br />
a tweet is 140-character burst where Twitter users share their thoughts, as<br />
well as links and photos. On Twitter you can follow others and they can follow<br />
you, allowing you to engage in both direct <a href="http://blog.laptopmag.com/20-terrific-twitter-tips##"><span class="klink"><span style="color: darkgreen; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">messaging</span></span></a><br />
and messaging to the world. Businesses use Twitter to help build their customer<br />
loyalty, and consumers use it to pontificate on everything from what’s for<br />
lunch to <a href="http://blog.laptopmag.com/20-terrific-twitter-tips##"><span class="klink"><span style="color: darkgreen; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">charity</span></span></a><br />
projects.<br />
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Twitter is more than just 140 character blurbs however, and our list of 20<br />
terrific Twitter tips will show you just what we mean.<br />
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<strong>1. Download a desktop and mobile app </strong><br />
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<br />
The Twitter website has tons to offer, but you’re not always on the website,<br />
nor are you chained to your desk. Third-party apps such as TweetDeck,<br />
HootSuite, and others offer added functionality such as the ability to schedule<br />
your tweets and manage multiple accounts.<br />
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<br />
<strong>2. Retweet others</strong><br />
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<br />
One way to spread goodwill among your followers is to retweet other users’<br />
posts. To do this, click on the tweet in question. Doing this will pop up a<br />
window on the right showing that feed. Then click Retweet below the update.<br />
<br />
<br />
<strong>3. Leave 20 characters at the end of your posts</strong><br />
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<br />
You’ll have a better chance of being retweeted by others if you make it easy<br />
for them to do so. While you have 140 characters to play with in Twitter, try<br />
to restrict yourself to 120.<br />
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<br />
<strong>4. Follow people who follow you</strong><br />
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<br />
Twitter is a great way to build relationships with your followers. The best<br />
way to do that is to follow them back and engage them in direct messaging<br />
conversations.<br />
<br />
<br />
<strong>5. Share pictures and video with your followers</strong><br />
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<br />
Because Twitter is a text-based network, you’ll want to use services such as<br />
TwitPic, TwitVid, Plixi, and yFrog to share photos and movies with others.<br />
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<br />
<strong>6 Use hashtags (pic)</strong><br />
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<br />
When you post a comment that relates to an ongoing event or a popular topic,<br />
add a # in front of that topic. That will help your status update appear in<br />
searches. You can search for the popularity of a particular hashtag by going to<br />
hashtags.org.<br />
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<br />
<strong>7. Delete unwanted tweets</strong><br />
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<br />
Whoops. You posted something you shouldn’t have. Not to worry. You can<br />
remove it fast. Simply hover over your update on your homepage. You’ll see a<br />
star and a trash can image. The star makes it one of your favorites. The trash<br />
can deletes it.<br />
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<strong>8. Use Twitter to get better customer service</strong><br />
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<br />
One way to get the attention of a big-name store, wireless carrier, or<br />
notebook brand is by complaining or posing a question on Twitter. Nearly all<br />
big companies monitor mentions of their products through Twitter and may help<br />
you get your problem resolved faster than going through traditional channels.<br />
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<br />
<strong>9. Shorten URLs</strong><br />
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<br />
Because every character counts, you’ll want to truncate the links you share<br />
with the world. Third-party services such as Bit.ly and Ow.ly will do this for<br />
you, and they also offer analytics for tracking who retweets your link and how<br />
many people click on it. Popular desktop apps such as TweetDeck automatically<br />
shorten links for you.<br />
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<br />
<strong>10. Don’t always broadcast your location </strong><br />
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<br />
When you’re someplace particularly interesting, it can be fun to share your<br />
location, but doing it all the time can be a bit much. To tweet your location<br />
selectively, click on Settings from the drop-down menu beneath your profile<br />
photo in the top right. Check Tweet Location > Save. Now, when you open a<br />
new status update window, you can click the crosshairs icon to add your<br />
location.<br />
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<br />
<strong>11. Pick the right people to follow </strong><br />
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<br />
You can invite your friends to join Twitter by going to your profile<br />
drop-down menu and selecting Who To Follow, then selecting the Find friends tab<br />
and connecting with your e-mail account address book. Or, from the Browse<br />
Interests tab, you can check out the top draws in various categories, such as<br />
Charity, News, and Technology. Also, Twitter has improved its recommendations,<br />
and can offer you suggestions based on who you already follow. These appear on<br />
your home profile page on the right. The third-party service Listorious can<br />
also help you find followers. This site offers a keyword-searchable database of<br />
more than 2 million top Twitter users. Check out the Top 140 Lists or the 140<br />
Most Followed People. You can also try registering on Listorious to encourage<br />
more people to follow you.<br />
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<br />
<strong>12. Make your account private</strong><br />
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<br />
If you tweet things of a personal nature, you can lock down your tweets so<br />
only people you approve can read them. To do so, click on your account icon on<br />
the top right. Select Settings from the drop-down menu. Check off Protect My<br />
Tweets > Save. Note: Previously tweeted items may still be publicly visible.<br />
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<br />
<strong>13. Make Twitter lists</strong><br />
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A great way to organize your followers and help other users find content you<br />
like is to make Lists. Within Twitter, click on the Lists tab, and select<br />
Create A List. Here you can also see lists you’ve been included in or lists<br />
you’ve already created.<br />
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<br />
<strong>14. Create a book of your favorite Twitter updates </strong><br />
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<br />
By signing in to your Twitter account from tweetbook.in, you can generate a<br />
PDF eBook of your latest tweets and your favorites. You can then share that<br />
book with friends.<br />
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<br />
<strong>15. Recognize your followers</strong><br />
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Every Friday, an international event storms Twitter; Follow Friday. It<br />
started as a way to help your followers find new people to follow and it has<br />
become a way to recognize your followers. The etiquette is to look at who has<br />
followed you during the previous week or two, and then, on Friday, to add those<br />
people’s handles to a tweet and to say something like “thanks for following<br />
me.” Then add #FF at the beginning or end of the tweet.<br />
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<strong>16. Check your connections</strong><br />
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Go to your account drop-down menu and select Settings. Click the Connections<br />
tab. Here you’ll see the services and third-party applications that you’ve<br />
given permission to access your account. You can then revoke access for any<br />
account you’re no longer using. Check this area regularly to be sure no one has<br />
authorized your account to a service you don’t want to use.<br />
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<strong>17. Use advanced search</strong><br />
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Just like in a browser, you can narrow your search in Twitter by using what<br />
are known as operators. For instance, to search a specific geographic area of<br />
tweets add Near: and Within: to your search string. So to search for all tweets<br />
within <st1:metricconverter productid="30 miles">30 miles</st1:metricconverter><br />
of <st1:city><st1:place>Portland</st1:place></st1:city>, you’d enter “near:<st1:city><st1:place>Portland</st1:place></st1:city><br />
within:30mi”.<br />
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To search for tweets that were posted since a specific date, add a Since: to<br />
your search. So to find all tweets about the <a href="http://blog.laptopmag.com/20-terrific-twitter-tips/3##"><span class="klink"><span style="color: darkgreen; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">iPad</span></span></a><br />
2 that were posted since <st1:date day="1" month="1" year="2011">Jan. 1, 2011</st1:date>,<br />
you’d enter “iPad 2 since:2011-1-<st1:metricconverter productid="1”">1”</st1:metricconverter>.<br />
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You can even search by the tone of a tweet by using emoticons. Adding <img alt=":(" border="0" class="wp-smiley" height="15" src="file:///C:\Users\Elbert\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtml1\01\clip_image002.gif" v:shapes="_x0000_i1027" width="15" />to your search<br />
string with bring up related tweets that were sent with a negative attitude.<br />
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<strong>18. Report spam </strong><br />
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Malicious links to malware sites, mass following or unfollowing to get<br />
attention, posting unwanted messages to users, exclusively sending messages on<br />
trending topics to grab eyeballs, repeatedly posting duplicate updates; all of<br />
these offenses constitute Twitter spam. To report a spammer, go to that<br />
account’s profile and click the drop-down menu. Then click Report @username For<br />
Spam. Twitter will then block the offending user from following you or replying<br />
to you, and that account will get reviewed by the Twitter Trust and Safety<br />
Team.<br />
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<strong>19. Scan for junk accounts </strong><br />
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The third-party app TwitBlock will scan your followers for signs of spam and<br />
accounts that could be junk. Simply go to Twitblock.org and link your Twitter<br />
account. The service will automatically scan your followers and offer up a<br />
percentage of certainty indicating whether or not a user has spam-like<br />
behavior.<br />
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<strong>20. Keyboard shortcuts on Twitter.com</strong><br />
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<strong>f – </strong>Favorite<br />
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<strong>r – </strong>reply<br />
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<strong>t – </strong>retweet<br />
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<strong>m – </strong>direct message<br />
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<strong>n – </strong>new status update<br />
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<strong>j -</strong> next tweet<br />
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<strong>k – </strong>previous tweet<br />
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<strong>spacebar</strong> – page down<br />
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<br />
/ - search<br />
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<strong>.</strong> refresh tweets and back to the top<br />
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<o:p></o:p>Elbert Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02112291831189307837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653312946380993574.post-25734891037289177092011-02-22T16:56:00.000-08:002011-02-22T16:56:43.595-08:0040 Essential Facebook Tips<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">40 Essential Facebook Tips</span><br />
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FRIENDING<br />
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<strong>1. Find friends</strong><br />
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There are several ways to add friends, the most simple of which is Facebook<br />
Search. Your friend list, on the top right of the screen, lets you find friends<br />
based on friends that your friends know. Or you can have Facebook search your<br />
contacts through AIM, AOL, Comcast, MSN, Skype, Verizon.net, Windows Live<br />
Hotmail, Yahoo, and other e-mail services.<br />
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The most specific way to find people you may know is to click Friends on the<br />
top left of your profile. Then click Other Tools (under the list of e-mail<br />
services) and specify whether you’re searching for classmates or co-workers.<br />
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<strong>2. Tag friends in status updates</strong><br />
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Wanna give a special shout-out to someone and link back to their profile?<br />
Write your status and include the @ symbol before their name. Your status won’t<br />
show the @, but it will link to your friend. That friend will receive a notification<br />
linking back to your post.<br />
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<strong>3. Change how certain people see your profile</strong><br />
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To let your mom friend you without letting her view all your party pics, add<br />
her to a specific friend list, and then limit that list’s access. Start by<br />
going to your Friends page. Then click the Account drop-down menu, and select<br />
Edit Friends > Create A List. After you’ve selected the friends to be<br />
included in that list, give it a name.<br />
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To limit who sees what, go to Account > Privacy Settings > Customize<br />
Settings. For each of the items listed—including Birthday, Contact Information,<br />
and Photos and Videos I’m Tagged In—you can limit the information shared by<br />
clicking the drop-down menu on the right and selecting Customize. In the pop-up<br />
window, write the name of the previously created friend list in the Hide This<br />
From box. Then click Save Setting.<br />
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<strong>4. Find out who has unfriended you</strong><br />
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There’s no formal Facebook notification to alert users that they’ve been<br />
dropped from someone’s friend list, but this handy app can help. Simply download<br />
it from userscripts.org/scripts/show/58852. Then install it in your web browser<br />
(Chrome, Firefox, Opera, or Safari), log into Facebook, and Unfriend Finder<br />
will do its work. It will not work retroactively.<br />
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<strong>5. Use power search secrets</strong><br />
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There are a million and one John Smiths in the world, but you’re looking for<br />
someone specific who you know to be in his 20s. It is possible to narrow your<br />
search results by age. Enter the name and the age range separated by y1 and y2.<br />
For example, “name: John Smith y1: 20 y2: <st1:metricconverter productid="30”">30”</st1:metricconverter><br />
will produce search results for John Smiths age 20 to 30.<br />
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Or, you can search for two terms at once using the pipe character (a.k.a.:<br />
“|”). This will combine the search for the two items into one.<br />
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<strong>6. Join a network</strong><br />
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Networks can help you find people who work or study with you. To join a high<br />
school or college network, you must be a current student. Some companies also<br />
have a network, but you must have a valid work e-mail address to affiliate<br />
yourself with that business. To get started go to Account > Account Settings<br />
and click the Networks tab. From there you can search for a network to join.<br />
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<strong>7. Create a group</strong><br />
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This feature is a great way to broadcast information to a small set of<br />
people instead of your entire friend list. Go to www.facebook.com/groups and<br />
click Create Group. Then add the names of select friends and click Create. The<br />
group window works the same way as a Wall, and while what you write will appear<br />
in your Newsfeed, only members of your group will be able to see.<br />
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<strong>8. Share a document with a group</strong><br />
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All the members of a group can collaborate on a single document. To create<br />
such a document, click on your group, and then select Doc from the top bar.<br />
Here you can give the file a name and start writing. When you press Save, that<br />
doc is available to the group to edit.<br />
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<strong>9. Schedule your status updates</strong><br />
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Have news to share, but don’t want it to get lost in the overnight shuffle?<br />
Or want to send an update when you know ahead of time that something special is<br />
about to happen? You can have a third-party app such as TweetDeck, HootSuite,<br />
or CoTweet do it for you. Simply download one of these free apps to the desktop<br />
or your mobile device, write your update, and schedule it for future posting.<br />
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<h4 style="margin: 1.33em 0in;">SHARING</h4><br />
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<strong>9. Schedule your status updates</strong><br />
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<br />
Have news to share, but don’t want it to get lost in the overnight shuffle?<br />
Or want to send an update when you know ahead of time that something special is<br />
about to happen? You can have a third-party app such as TweetDeck, HootSuite,<br />
or CoTweet do it for you. Simply download one of these free apps to the desktop<br />
or your mobile device, write your update, and schedule it for future posting.<br />
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<strong>10. Share meaningful links with personalized descriptions</strong><br />
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To share a must-read link with your friends, copy and paste the URL into the<br />
status window. This automatically populates a thumbnail image (which can be<br />
deleted), headline, and description of the site you’re sharing. By clicking on<br />
that descriptive text, you can customize what it says or delete it altogether.<br />
Then you can delete the link (without losing the referral) and add your two<br />
cents as a status update.<br />
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<br />
<strong>11. Control which alerts you receive</strong><br />
<br />
<br />
Facebook can alert you via text message or e-mail if, among other actions,<br />
someone has poked you, commented on a post you were tagged in, or tagged you at<br />
a place. To specify which of these occurrences warrant a notification message,<br />
go to Account Settings and click on the Notifications tab. Then check off which<br />
items are important and uncheck those that are not.<br />
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<strong>12. Change your news feed preferences</strong><br />
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Your news feed is separated into Top News, which ranks the posts that are<br />
currently most popular, and Most Recent. The latter is also known as the live<br />
feed, and it is curated by Facebook based on who they think you want to hear<br />
from the most. You can control who appears in your feed and who doesn’t. In the<br />
Most Recent view, click Edit Options on the bottom right of your feed; here you<br />
have the option to show more or less friends. You can hide a specific annoying<br />
friend’s updates, or request to see some friends more often.<br />
<br />
<br />
<strong>13. Like or unlike a page</strong><br />
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<br />
When you’re surfing the web, it’s more and more common that you’ll come<br />
across a little blue Like button. There are 10,000 new websites integrating<br />
this Facebook social plug-in every day. By clicking the Like button on a given<br />
site, you’re announcing to your friends that you enjoy the content found there.<br />
This can give you access to a business that might offer you unique content,<br />
deals, or news. Or it can just be a way of sharing your likes with the world.<br />
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<br />
Just because you liked something yesterday doesn’t mean you can’t change<br />
your mind. To unlike a page, find the post in your profile that states you like<br />
that page. Or find a post from that page in your News Feed. Click the “x” on<br />
the top right portion of the page. Then, click “Unlike Page” from the drop-down<br />
menu.<br />
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<br />
<strong>14. Download your data</strong><br />
<br />
<br />
Not convinced that the cloud is a safe place to store your Facebook<br />
memories? Now you can keep a copy on your hard drive by going to Account ><br />
Account Settings > Download Your Information. When you click the Download<br />
button, you are warned that it may take a bit to gather all your data, and<br />
you’re presented with another Download button. Clicking that option notifies<br />
you that an e-mail will be sent to you when your information is ready. Clicking<br />
the link in the e-mail will send you to a page to download and save your data.<br />
<br />
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<strong>15. Download a friend’s photo album</strong><br />
<br />
<br />
Want to treasure those Facebook memories without going <a href="http://blog.laptopmag.com/40-facebook-tips/3##"><span class="klink"><span style="color: darkgreen; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.5pt;">online</span></span></a>?<br />
Get the FacePAD Facebook Photo Album Downloader. This free Firefox add-on<br />
allows you to download a friend’s entire album. Start by getting the app from<br />
addons.mozilla.org. Then go to one of the <a href="http://blog.laptopmag.com/40-facebook-tips/3##"><span class="klink"><span style="color: darkgreen; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.5pt;">photos</span></span></a><br />
in the album you want to download. Put your cursor over the top of the name of<br />
the album on the bottom right, then right-click and select <a href="http://blog.laptopmag.com/40-facebook-tips/3##"><span class="klink"><span style="color: darkgreen; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.5pt;">Download Album</span></span></a><br />
With FacePAD.<br />
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<strong>16. Create an event</strong><br />
<br />
<br />
Evites are so 2009. Now that all your real friends are Facebook friends,<br />
it’s easy to set up a birthday party or a night out by clicking on the Events<br />
tab below your profile picture. From there, click Create an Event. This will<br />
take you to a page where you can add the details such as date, time, and place<br />
and select guests from your friends list. You can also send an invitation to<br />
non-Facebook users via their e-mail address. You’re offered the option to make<br />
the event public, meaning it will show up in your news feed, or you can keep<br />
the news to just the people you invited.<br />
<br />
<br />
<strong>17. Turn your profile photo into an avatar</strong><br />
<br />
<br />
Tired of that humdrum photo of yourself? You can become a 1960s ad exec by<br />
going to www.amctv.com/originals/madmen/madmenyourself. Become a fourth grader<br />
in <st1:place><st1:city>South Park</st1:city>, <st1:state>Colorado</st1:state></st1:place><br />
at www.southpark studios.com/avatar. Or pretend you live in <st1:city><st1:place>Springfield</st1:place></st1:city><br />
with The Simpons by going to www.simpsonsmovie.com. When you’re done, save your<br />
avatar to your computer and upload it to Facebook by clicking on your profile<br />
picture and selecting Change Picture > Upload a Picture.<br />
<br />
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<strong>18. Buy Facebook credits</strong><br />
<br />
<br />
There is a truly addictive quality to such Facebook applications as<br />
Farmville and Mafia Wars. And there comes a point where, to make the experience<br />
even better, you have to double down by buying credits. Facebook is making it<br />
easier and easier to get those credits by letting you exchange dollars for<br />
credits. You can even redeem American Express Rewards points for credits.<br />
Feeling generous? Give Facebook credits in the form of a gift card available<br />
from participating retailers (Best Buy, Game Stop, and Walmart).<br />
<br />
<br />
<strong>19. Cancel an event</strong><br />
<br />
<br />
Something came up at the last minute, as it always does, and you’re no<br />
longer going to be hosting the party as planned. As the administrator of an<br />
event, you can change your personal RSVP status to cancel. You can also cancel<br />
the event: On the Event page, click Edit Event > Cancel This Event. When you<br />
cancel, a note will be sent to all of your friends who were invited. You are<br />
offered the option to send a personal note as well.<br />
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<strong>20. Memorialize a friend’s account</strong><br />
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When a Facebook friend passes away, you can help Facebook memorialize his or<br />
her account by going to www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=deceased<br />
and filling out the form. It will ask for the person’s name, birthday, e-mail<br />
account, your relationship to that person and a link to an obituary or news<br />
article about the friend’s death. You can then request that Facebook remove the<br />
friend’s account completely, or memorialize it, meaning Facebook removes their<br />
status updates and contact information and adjusts the privacy settings so that<br />
only confirmed friends can see the profile or locate it in a search. You’ll<br />
also still be able to leave Wall posts in remembrance.<br />
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<h4 style="margin: 1.33em 0in;">MESSAGING</h4><br />
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<h4 style="margin: 1.33em 0in;">21. Upgrade to use the new Facebook messages feature</h4><br />
<br />
The latest feature to come to Facebook is a new platform for communicating<br />
with friends. Facebook Messages combines e-mail, chat, and text messaging,<br />
allowing you to view one unified inbox. This upgrade is slowly rolling out to<br />
all 500 million Facebook users but if you want to get on the list sooner rather<br />
than later, go to www.facebook.com/about/messages and click Request An<br />
Invitation. Once you receive your invitation, you can invite a number of your<br />
friends and family members.<br />
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<br />
<strong>22. Claim your @facebook.com e-mail address</strong><br />
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<br />
After you’ve received your Facebook messages invite, you can request an<br />
e-mail address with your Facebook username. In the Messages view, click the<br />
Claim Your Facebook Email link. Then others will be able to e-mail you via<br />
Gmail, Yahoo, or other e-mail services, and the e-mails will be delivered to<br />
your Facebook messages inbox. When you send messages to external addresses,<br />
your e-mails will be formatted as Facebook messages and will include your<br />
profile picture.<br />
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<strong>23. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Send Facebook messages<br />
from your phone</strong><br />
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<br />
To send a message to a friend when you’re away from the computer, text your<br />
message to 32665. For instance, sending “msg Lisa Butler Happy Birthday” to<br />
that number will send “Happy Birthday” to your friend Lisa Butler.<br />
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<br />
<strong>24. Send a video message</strong><br />
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<br />
Use your webcam and mic to leave a personalized message for someone by<br />
selecting New Message in the Messages Inbox. Click the video icon at the bottom<br />
left of the new message window start recording, then click Send.<br />
<br />
<br />
<strong>25. Archive or delete a conversation</strong><br />
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<br />
Hide a conversation in Messages by archiving it, or permanently remove a<br />
conversation and its history by deleting it. To archive, click the X next to<br />
the conversation. You can find it later by scrolling to the bottom of your<br />
Messages queue, and clicking Archived on the bottom left corner. If you receive<br />
a new message, the conversation will reappear and continue. To eliminate a<br />
thread, open the conversation, click the Actions drop-down menu and select<br />
Delete. That will clear the conversation from your history.<br />
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<br />
<strong>26. Put Facebook Chat in a Firefox sidebar</strong><br />
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<br />
The IM version of Facebook messaging can be added to your Firefox browser<br />
window as a sidebar in a few easy steps. In Firefox, click Bookmarks, then<br />
right-click and select New Bookmark. Name the bookmark something obvious such<br />
as Facebook Chat. The location should be<br />
http://www.facebook.com/presence/popout.php. Then check “Load this bookmark in<br />
the sidebar.” Go to View in your Firefox toolbar and select Sidebar ><br />
Bookmarks. Now you can chat away.<br />
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<h4 style="margin: 1.33em 0in;">PRIVACY & SECURITY</h4><br />
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<h4 style="margin: 1.33em 0in;">27. Limit who can see your friend list</h4><br />
<br />
Under Account > Privacy Settings, look for the View Settings link beneath<br />
Connecting on Facebook. Here you’ll see a list of personal profile items, such<br />
as who can see your current city and hometown or who can send you friend<br />
requests. You can limit who can see your friend list to Friends Only, Friends<br />
of Friends, or even by a specific friend list that you designate under<br />
Customize.<br />
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<br />
<strong>28. Block someone</strong><br />
<br />
<br />
If you no longer wish to be friends with someone, or if you simply don’t<br />
want to receive event invites from a specific friend, you can block them in<br />
your privacy settings under Account. Simply click on Edit Your Lists under<br />
Block Lists. Here you can remove someone from your friend list or block invites<br />
from specific people or applications.<br />
<br />
<br />
<strong>29. Limit how much info apps can access</strong><br />
<br />
<br />
Just because you want to use a Facebook Application doesn’t mean you want it<br />
to have more access to your account information than necessary. For instance,<br />
the application for the new social network Jumo requires access to personal<br />
profile information such as your birthday, gender, and list of friends. But did<br />
you know that by accepting those terms of service you’re also giving Jumo<br />
access to your data any time, even when you’re not using the application?<br />
That’s an optional feature you can turn off.<br />
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<br />
Go to Account > Privacy Settings. Under Applications and Websites click<br />
Edit Your Settings. On the next page click Edit Settings next to Applications<br />
You Use. Next to Jumo, click Edit Settings. From here you can remove the<br />
application, or just remove the optional settings, such as allowing Jumo to<br />
post to your wall with status messages. You can follow the same process to find<br />
the optional settings on each of your active Facebook Applications.<br />
<br />
<br />
<strong>30. Customize privacy settings on each video you upload</strong><br />
<br />
<br />
There are four global privacy settings available under Accounts > Privacy<br />
Settings > Posts by Me: Everyone, Friends of Friends, Friends Only, or a<br />
customized list of people. You can also set a stricter level on a<br />
video-by-video basis as well. Start by selecting the video, then click Edit<br />
This Video. Next to Privacy, select your desired setting and click Save.<br />
<br />
<br />
<strong>31. Personalize your web surfing experience</strong><br />
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<br />
Facebook has partnered with Pandora, Rotten Tomatoes, Yelp, and several<br />
other sites to create a web surfing experience unique to you and your friends.<br />
By going to Yelp, you can see reviews of locations written by your friends<br />
along the top bar. To opt in to this service, go to Account > Privacy<br />
Settings > Applications and Websites. Next to Instant Personalization, click<br />
Edit Settings and check the box to “enable instant personalization on partner<br />
websites.”<br />
<br />
<br />
<strong>32. Add a security question to your account</strong><br />
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<br />
Add another level of security to your password. Go to Account > Account<br />
Settings and click Change in the Security Question section. You can then select<br />
a question from the drop-down menu, and enter your answer. Then click Change<br />
Security Question and enter your password. Note: Once entered, you cannot<br />
change this question.<br />
<br />
<br />
<strong>33. Check recent account activity and log out remotely</strong><br />
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<br />
Under Account > Account Settings, in the Settings tab is a link for<br />
Account Security. Clicking it drops down a variety of info, where you can be<br />
notified via text and/or <a href="http://blog.laptopmag.com/40-facebook-tips/5##"><span class="klink"><span style="color: darkgreen; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.5pt;">e-mail</span></span></a><br />
if a new computer or mobile device logs into your account. You can see a list<br />
of your five most recent logins with detailed information such as date, time,<br />
location, browser, and <a href="http://blog.laptopmag.com/40-facebook-tips/5##"><span class="klink"><span style="color: darkgreen; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.5pt;">operating<br />
system</span></span></a> used. You can also select End Activity on any active<br />
sessions you may have forgotten to sign out of, like at a friends house or at a<br />
public computer.<br />
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<br />
<strong>34. Report an impersonator</strong><br />
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<br />
Identity theft or fake profiles can be a real threat to your virtual<br />
persona. If you’ve found a person imitating you on Facebook, go to their<br />
profile page and click Report/Block This Person at the bottom-left side of the<br />
page. Select Fake Profile as the reason and add “Impersonating me or someone<br />
else” as the report type. Also include a URL to the real person’s account so<br />
Facebook can see the difference. This is also where you can flag someone’s <a href="http://blog.laptopmag.com/40-facebook-tips/5##"><span class="klink"><span style="color: darkgreen; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.5pt;">photo</span></span></a><br />
or profile as inappropriate.<br />
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<strong>35. Report an underage child</strong><br />
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<br />
According to Facebook’s terms and conditions, anyone under the age of 13<br />
should not be allowed on the social network. If you see someone you know to be<br />
underage, you can report them by going to<br />
www.facebook.com/help/?safety=parents#!/help/contact.php?show_form=underage and<br />
filling out this form. It will ask you for the child’s name, e-mail address,<br />
actual age, and your relationship to the child.<br />
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<br />
<strong>36. Remove a photo tag</strong><br />
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<br />
When your friends are snapping away, you just know that they are taking<br />
shots you’d rather not have shared on Facebook. But that isn’t going to stop<br />
them from uploading and tagging you. To remove an unwanted tag, view the offending<br />
photo, then choose Remove Tag at the bottom next to your name. Only the owner<br />
of a photo or the person tagged can remove a tag.<br />
<br />
<br />
<strong>37. Deactivate your account</strong><br />
<br />
<br />
Simply clicking the log-off link at the top right is so last year. To truly<br />
protect your account, you can deactivate it, which makes it unsearchable and<br />
secure until you reactivate it. It may be a bit drastic, but it works because<br />
Facebook doesn’t totally delete your deactivated account. To super-logoff, go<br />
to Account > Account Settings and click Deactivate Account. Then check “This<br />
is temporary. I’ll be back.” and click Confirm. To reactivate later, just log<br />
in with your <a href="http://blog.laptopmag.com/40-facebook-tips/5##"><span class="klink"><span style="color: darkgreen; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.5pt;">e-mail</span></span></a><br />
and password, but note that your admin status on any groups or events will not<br />
be automatically restored.<br />
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<h4 style="margin: 1.33em 0in;">PLACES</h4><br />
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<h4 style="margin: 1.33em 0in;">38. Check in to a place on your phone</h4><br />
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The Facebook app for Android, BlackBerry, and iPhone now offers a feature<br />
called Facebook Places. This allows you to see where your friends are, share<br />
your location, and add comments about the places you visit. Users whose phones<br />
don’t support the Facebook app can also access Facebook Places through<br />
touch.facebook.com. The Places tab is on the right side of the home page, and<br />
it offers you an option to Share Location.<br />
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<br />
<strong>39. Create a new place</strong><br />
<br />
<br />
If you visit a hot new spot, and want to check in there, go to Places on<br />
your mobile app and click Check In. Then, select the Add button to the left of<br />
the Places Names search box. Type in the location’s name and click Add. You can<br />
also write a description for the place. Don’t forget to check in after you’ve<br />
added the place.<br />
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<br />
<br />
<strong>40. Tag friends at a place</strong><br />
<br />
<br />
Using Facebook Places allows you to check in yourself as well as others at a<br />
specific location. In the Places feature, after you’ve checked in, click Tag<br />
Friends With You and choose friends from your list. You can also add a<br />
description of what you’re doing at this locale.<br />
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