The Nonprofit Facebook Guy

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Facebook building out location features for Facebook Places and Mobile

Facebook is now allowing some users the ability to tag places with a new “Add to Map” option on Facebook Places Pages. No doubt this will be huge as mobile users grow over the next few months. Once a user adds their post to the map, it shows up on their Timeline and in the [...]

16 February 2012 at 09:07 - Comments

Three big shockers about your Facebook Page

Many nonprofits I work with are shocked to learn the following three things about their Facebook Page: Non-fans can comment on your Page updates without becoming a fan. When someone does become a fan of your Page, there’s no guarantee that your Page updates will appear in their News Feed. Less than 5% of your [...]

13 February 2012 at 13:09 - Comments

Facebook launches enhanced Photo Theatre

Facebook launched a new version of the pop-up window box users interact with when they click on a photo in the news feed. Facebook also calls this the “Photo Theater”. The biggest change is that the photo info, admin, and comments section has moved from below the photo, to the right-hand side of the photo. [...]

9 February 2012 at 10:33 - Comments

Is your Facebook Page a ghost town?

The short answer on this one is “yes”.  Should you worry about this? Short answer again: “no”. It’s ok that no one visits your Facebook Page The fact is, everything happens in the newsfeed, NOT on your Facebook page. To see for yourself, all you have to do is divide the number of people reached by the [...]

7 February 2012 at 08:03 - Comments