If you’re interested in using Facebook Places to engage with your local constituents, you need to first claim your Facebook Places Page. (Didn’t know you had one, did you?) The benefit of claiming your Facebook Places Page is having the ability to publish content to those who have checked into your Place, which Facebook recently […]
How your nonprofit can use Facebook Places
Facebook Places can create more awareness for your organization You may have heard that Facebook released a location-based tagging feature a couple of weeks ago called Places that works similarly to Foursquare or Gowalla. The basic idea is that Facebook users can share when and where they hang out with their Facebook friends (and sometimes the […]
Essential tips for updating your Facebook Page
Over the past few weeks I’ve received a number of questions about the ways administrators can update their Facebook Page. This topic also comes up a lot during the Facebook Foundations webinars I do with Charity How To. So I thought it might be useful to outline the various ways users can update their Facebook […]
How will your nonprofit use Facebook Places?
If you haven’t heard already, Facebook has launched a location-based “check in” app similar to FourSquare. It’s called “Places” , and as you’ll see in the video above, Facebook seeks to encourage serendipitous meetings between Facebook friends at the places they hang out. How can my nonprofit use Places? Places is a location-based check-in app […]
2 big changes to Facebook Pages
For months now, Facebook has been saying they were going to be removing the boxes tab and setting a limit to the width of custom tabs on Facebook Pages. On Friday they finally put a date to those changes: During the week of Aug. 23 (or sooner). Details on the changes to Facebook Pages So […]