SMMCamp14 – The New Facebook

SMMCamp for Real Estate (Social Media Marketing Camp) is back:

Thursday April 12 at 12 Noon Eastern

As Always it’s online and free.

SMMCamp 14 will focus on What’s Up with the New Facebook and features 4 real estate experts who use Facebook to find new clients and close more business. Our experts will share how they’ve adapted to the new Facebook and will share their most successful tips and tactics.

This is a no fluff 3-hour workshop that focuses on tactics that work in today’s real estate market. Click here to view the list of speakers.

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SMMCamp 14 Sponsors

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The reason you should be excited by this news is because each sponsor has a special giveaway available to anyone who registers for SMMCamp. Click on their logos.

 

 

 

 

Timeless Timeline

I cannot believe it is 2012 already.  I am big on even-numbered years probably because I was born in one according to the “experts”. So here we are a new year and a new look to Facebook.  How many of you have the new Timeline?  How many of you like the new Timeline? How many of you would like to kick Facebook in the ass for one more change?

I have had Timeline since many of us could hack it through various different sites. Fortunately it was an alleged “legal” hack if there is such a thing so I didn’t have to look quite like this:

Besides I do not like to sweat.

I happen to love Timeline because it is timeless.  I can go back to the date I was conceived I suppose and make it part of my history by year, but then you would know how old I am and I don’t want you to know that.

I love the GREAT BIG PICTURES – and last week Mike Mueller nominated my cover picture as the best one he has ever seen. (if you are not a friend of his, you have to subscribe and it’s worth it).  Now that is an honor.

Here is the exact quote:

Update on the Time Machine

http://mashable.com/2011/09/26/facebook-updates-timeline-to-avoid-outing-unfrienders/

Facebook fixed the bug – darn now I can not see who outed me…..

Carole

Facebook Builds a Time Machine

 

Ever since I saw the movie “The Time Machine” I have wanted to travel back in time.  It seems that Facebook has now decided to give us a chance to do that.

Coming soon to a computer screen near you……….”Timeline the  Movie”.

I actually have had the Timeline screen since last Friday.  I followed the directions on quasi-hacking that I found on mashable.com and went for it.  I like it.  It’s soothing…..what did you expect me to say?  I am 100% girlie and to me the page is going to  appeal to the feminine form because it is pastel.  And my friends wait until you see the size of your posted photos now.

As soon as I created (quasi-hacked) the application I went back in time.  Everything is there for you to see – including the old drama of course.  There are benefits.  The way Facebook is now our posts all go into some dead zone and no matter how magnificent the post is, no one can seem to penetrate that dead zone.

This really is an adventure into the future because while at first your Timeline will be auto-generated eventually you will go to your very own private activity log and view everything you ever shared since you hopped on the Facebook train.  How many times have you been told nothing ever goes away on the Internet????  Well here comes the proof.

Today the Daily Mail in the UK published one of their interpretations of the Timeline writing that in their opinion we will all be able to figure out who has un-friended us with this ability to travel into our past.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2041574/Facebook-New-feature-allow-users-know-doesnt-like-them.html?ITO=1490

I suppose some people with nothing exciting going on in their lives might travel back and forth to figure this out.  To me that is an entire waste of time and I don’t particularly care who did hit the X on me.

One thing I can say with enthusiasm about this is that the ticker is gone – I don’t like the ticker, I find the movement distracting IMHO.

I see change this way – this is our brain when we embrace change:

 

And this is our brain when we don’t embrace change:

 

Your choice.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dear Facebook I Don’t Care Who’s Peeping at Me

I don’t, I know that is a malware application  & I hit the report button on all these things.  I can usually smell a spam scam a mile away.  I really and truly have only opened one of these which made me feel like a total jackass and I don’t like that feeling.

If you have ever had that same jackass moment or you think you may have one down the road, let’s talk about how to get rid of this cr*p.

Jackass moments begin once you have clicked a link and then clicked “allow” on the link that opens.  Welcome to your jackass adventure.

The keywords to remember are these: NEVER CLICK ALLOW. Read more..

Dear Facebook, I Love You, I Hate You, I Love You, I Hate You

This morning as I was reading my wall I came across a post from PRDaily, one of my favorite FB pages.  They posted this: “Report: The ‘most hated’ companies in America”.  That is what I call a big attention-getting headline.  I clicked on it immediately.

It was no surprise to me to see all those airline companies on the list, we all love to hate the airlines.  I was surprised though to see Facebook in the top 10 as #10.  I went to the source, Business Insider, and the biggest complaint among consumers was privacy and personal information protection.

These are very big concerns but we also have to take some responsibility in protecting ourselves.  I was totally amazed this morning when I dug deeper into this with the number of people who did not know that under account settings on Facebook there is an Account Security page that looks like this:

 

Compelling Content Rules

Bill Gates wrote about how “Content is King”.  In my humble opinion is “Content is the Supreme Ruler”.   Great content is what gets people to want to read your posts and/or your blogs.

When you are stuck in that dark place where words and thoughts will not gel in your brain your fingers suffer from paralysis.  They hover over your keyboard and you struggle to have a brain synapse that causes those words and thoughts to gel so you can post something intelligent.  We have all been there.  It’s frenzied activity.

Pretty soon your fingers cramp from being held in that position and you need help to bring them back to normalcy.

This is when you should take a detour.  By that I mean walk away from the computer and do something else.  Allow yourself to get distracted because when you are distracted many times new ideas form.

If all else fails, read someone else’s posts and/or blog and if you like what you see write your opinion about that and link your readers to that post.  There is nothing wrong with doing this now and then. Read more..

ConSIStency is NOT for Sissies

As you read more and more of my posts, you will see that there is a common thread – I like to play with words and ideas, and I hope what I write is coming through with some humor. I take social media marketing as the serious business it is, because it is my career. I also love to do it with humor.

Today’s topic is about being consistent but in a way in which you reap the rewards which translates into being successful.  ConSIStency is NOT for sissies.  If you make a commitment to be social then that means that you have agreed to socialize.  If you put up a Facebook page and think people are going to flock to you, think again.  They are thinking “who the flock is this person?”

If you set up a blog and post one article, no one cares.  You have to keep writing.

Success came to me after 3 years of blogging, and 2 years on Facebook, and I credit it all to 1) conversing with people (see previous blog post) and 2) being consistent. Read more..

Deeper Exploration of the C of Conversation

Yesterday I got a phone call from my former Broker, Amy Stier, who asked me to break my 3 C’s down into more detail and I thought that was a good idea.

I don’t know how everyone “out there” started on Facebook, but for me it was to rekindle friendships. At that time there were not many pages to fan or like, and Facebook was purely a social tool in personal lives.   We all set up our personal page where we found friends, accepted new friends, deleted some strange people we would never consider to be friends and because it was new – it was sexy and exciting.

It was easy to have conversations with people on our personal walls.  We were sharing information back and forth like people do in person.  We bobbed around caught up in waves of friendly chatter, and OK sometimes some not-so-friendly chatter and life was pretty good.

Then Facebook began to evolve into something more than just talking to friends and family.  They birthed fan pages and we became fans of many different things.  That threw a monkey wrench into the art of conversation because if I liked Coca Cola was Coca Cola really going to start a conversation with me? It did not sink in at that point that by being a fan, there was a window of opportunity to start a conversation with another person who is a fan.  That’s what I missed (then) but what I grab onto now. Read more..

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