Social Media

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  Customising your Facebook fan page banner - tips for your Facebook fan page

  7th April 2011 03:00 by jo

  Last week I wrote an article about fun customisation of your photos on your Facebook page.

  I just wanted to update that post with an image our 18aProductions business fan page, showing other businesses how they can have fun with their own pages. We have gone with the simple, festive images of… Read more

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  Adding a Share page on Facebook - tips for your Facebook fan page

  6th April 2011 12:00 by lisa

  So once you've got people liking your Facebook fan page, how do you get them to spread the word?

  Well one way is to create a Share page, as shown below.

  A very good adoption of this page is to send people there as soon as they've liked your page. So… Read more

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  Giving fans exclusive content - tips for your Facebook fan page

  5th April 2011 03:00 by jo

  If you have a Facebook fan page, a great tip for businesses is to have exclusive content on there.

  This is great (and a clever) way to get people to ‘like’ your page, as people want to know what the hidden content is. Potentially it could be, special offers or money… Read more

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  Fun Facebook Profiles

  1st April 2011 03:00 by jo

  When researching press release websites I came across something completely unrelated but I thought it was pretty cool so here I am sharing it with you.

  Facebook are often making updates to their appearance, so click here to see some examples of how people are taking advantage of these changes… Read more

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  Facebook tries to copyright the words face and book!

  26th November 2010 12:00 by lisa

  The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has this week granted the social media giant Facebook a "notice of allowance" to trade mark the word "face".

  Apparently Facebook have a history of going after anyone who use "face" or "book" in their name - UTalkMarketing cites examples such as Teachbook… Read more

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  New twitter site starts rolling out

  15th September 2010 03:00 by lisa

  Twitter have unveiled their new look site - and I think it looks pretty good! Of course the proof is in the using...

  I really like the way Twitter have managed the space on the screen - with show and hides you can give a user a lot of information… Read more

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  How to put Facebook on your Site

  23rd August 2010 03:00 by tom

  It's now easier than ever to share your website's content on Facebook, which could prove to be an excellent way of getting more visitor interaction on your site.

  Facebook has released a whole set of social plugins that let you do some really cool stuff, in many cases just by… Read more

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  Twitter customer service from 123-reg

  10th August 2010 03:00 by lisa

  Yesterday I tweeted that I wasn't very happy with 123-reg auto-renewing a .com domain name for 2 years without my say so - and I just received a phone call from their customer services team to see if they could help resolve the issue.

  It wasn't the auto-renewal I had… Read more

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  18a meet Facebook Developer Matt Kelly

  22nd July 2010 03:00 by lisa

  We admit it. We're geeks. Which meant it was very exciting to meet Facebook Developer Matt Kelly (left in the pic, with our Technical Director Tom Freeman on the right) in San Francisco as part of our 18a Road Trip the other day. He was a lovely guy and it… Read more

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  San Fransisco Facebook Developer Meetup

  17th June 2010 03:00 by tom

  As part of our epic US social media tour we're really excited to be meeting up with some Facebook developers and engineers from the other side of the pond at the San Fransisco Facebook Developer Meetup on June 28.

  It should be a great opportunity to discuss the new platform… Read more