Facebook: Create a Page List

It’s very easy to add lists just for pages. That enables you to categorize pages into separate lists so you can then view information for only those pages. It makes it easier to separate posts from friends and posts from pages in your timeline. The default inclusion of everything can be overwhelming. Like Friend lists, [...]

Facebook: Create a Friend List

There are default friend lists in Facebook such as Family and Close Friends. They’re listed in the Friends section in the left navigation bar. You can add more at any time. Here’s how! 1. Left bar: FRIENDS > MORE 2. + Create List 3. Add a List Name. 4. Create 5. Add Friends 6. Select [...]

Facebook: Sort News Feed to View Only Friends or Pages

After a while, you may find that you’ve added many friends in Facebook and liked many pages. So many, perhaps, that your news feed is a mix of both and it’s difficult to separate the two. The default is to display both. It’s possible to sort your news feed so that you can view only [...]

Facebook: Hide Pages

If you have liked a Facebook page and want to remove it from your news feed so the posts don’t display, you can hide it. This removes the posts from your news feed, but does not unlike the page.  You can undo this at any time to have the posts display in your news feed again. [...]

Facebook: Unhide Pages

Over time, you may find that you have liked many Facebook pages. So many that you hid some from your news feed. What if you want to see the posts from a hidden page again? Simple! You can unhide them. You can also set up lists just for pages to sort your news feed; see [...]

Content Strategy: Posting Procedures in Facebook

One way to provide value to your Facebook community is to write procedure posts. You can deliver needed information right to your users, right where they live, right when they want it. The format definitely lends itself to preparing instructions in a clear, brief manner – and allow commenting as well. I’ve been writing procedures [...]

New LinkedIn Group for Facebook Page Admins

I’m excited to announce that I’ve just set up a new group in LinkedIn. It’s called Facebook Admins for Pages. The group is for Facebook business page admins, and provides a discussion forum in which to share tips and information for managing pages. Functionality for pages is ever-changing. Benefits to business increase with each new [...]

Writing Procedures in Facebook: An Example

To round out 2010, I wanted to write a procedure in Facebook. I wrote a list a week or so ago, but I wanted to try a procedure. One reason was that just about a year ago, (December 29th, 2009 to be exact) I wrote a procedure in Twitter. It was an experiment in use [...]