Social Media Marketing

Jul

04

2011

How to Add Facebook Profile Photos Strip on Your Facebook Fan Page

Facebook Apps Development / Facebook Fan Pages Development / Social Media Marketing  Posted by on July 4th, 2011 / 1 comments
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The recent update to the Facebook Fan Pages Profile Photos has improved the design potential quite a bit and it has increased the scope of your Fan Page and Brand promotion and marketing efforts on Facebook.

In the new Facebook Fan Page layout, old tabs have been moved from the top of the page to the left side and replaced them with a row of five photos. Please see the screen shot below to check profile photos strip in a row of the Fan Page of PI Media.

This new Facebook Photo Strip and Profile Picture can be used as free adverts for your brand and whatever message you might want to send to your fans.

The main profile photo maximum size is now 180 pixels wide by 540 pixels high.

Facebook introduced five photo strip on personal profiles sometime back, designers have used creative techniques by cutting up one main image into 5 smaller images to make it look like part of one image.

Although you can fix the order of these thumbnails on your personal profiles, you can’t really do that on your Facebook Fan pages. Display order of these images is random so you need to design such pattern which could fit in any order.

See the attached image for ideas. I have cut the PI Media logo in 5 smaller parts, and although they load randomly, they still give a custom and unique look.

The photos which are shown in the strip are 5 most recent uploaded to yuor page and selected automatically. These photos can either be uploaded in your “Photos” sections and be part of an album or posted to wall in a post using the “Share” status bar. Size of your thumbnails for this photo strip should 100px wide by 70px high.

When you upload the photos or post update with image, they are shown in this strip randomly. You can remove any image you do not want to show in the strip by clicking on the ‘x’ icon on the top right cornor of that picture.

There is space for only 5 images at one time so if you want a consistent look and feel, keep removing images form the strip each time you post a photo on your page wall.

hope that helps.

Cheers!

May

17

2011

Re-adding Your Friends to Your Facebook Newsfeed Again!

Social Media Marketing  Posted by on May 17th, 2011 / 0 comments
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I had hidden some of my friends’ feeds from my Facebook Newsfeed but when I tried to get some of them back, I had to spend some time to figure out how the hell I’m going to get them back! I thoroughly checked the Facebook Account Settings, Privacy Settings, Edit Friends and each one of their sub tabs and options but to no avail!

Finally the button that brought some of my dear friends back on my wall was hidden way down, actually the last item on my Newsfeed page and it’s called “Edit Options”.

To get to this “Edit Options” button, first login to your Facebook profile and then click on your “home” page button. Just scroll down as much as you have to and you will see this button “Edit Options” on the bottom right hand side where the page ends.

Click on “Edit Options” and a window with the title “Edit your News Feed settings” will popup showing a list of all your “Hidden” Friends, “Apps” and “Pages” and a cross to the right of each link. Just click the cross button and that will remove the friend, app or page from this bloc “Hide posts from:”.

Hope that helps.

Cheers!