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What I Like About the New Facebook Timeline Profile, Privacy Settings, and News Feed

by Kristi Hines on September 24, 2011 · 47 comments

By now, you’ve probably read your fair share of “What I Hate About the New Facebook Updates” to the point that you’re pretty comfortable with the fact that you hate the changes. So, as a change of pace, here are some gems that have come about from the latest updates that are actually pretty cool from the news feed to the new Facebook Timeline Profile.

The Best Facebook News Feed Setting

By far, of all things they have done to the news feed, I love this!

Hide Updates by Third Party Applications

Don’t want to see what music people are listening to? Tired of people who feed their tweets in as Facebook updates? If you are viewing your newsfeed and see that an update is from an app (this includes HootSuite, Spotify, Tweetdeck, NetworkedBlogs, or anything with an icon), you can click on the dropdown arrow next to the update and select the Hide All by ____. Talk about almost instantly decluttering some of the noise!

New Facebook News Feed Updates - Hide All By Application Setting

As a side note, this is why I love Google+. No updates from other apps or feeding updates from other networks. Almost every update happens within Google+ itself meaning if you comment on something, the person might actually be there to answer you vs. someone who just auto updates to update and not to engage. This is why I’m happy to remove 3rd party updates from my News Feed and just interact with people actually on Facebook. It’s all a matter of personal preference.

If you change your mind and want to see those app updates, scroll to the bottom of your News Feed (all the way down after the feed stops adding new updates) and click on Edit Options. You can see any updates you have hid from the feed, including those from app, games, pages, and people so you can add them back in again.

UPDATE #1 Change Subscription or Friendship

Ever seen an update from someone, think “I really don’t care about your ___” and wish you would never see those types of updates again from that person in your News Feed. Now you can control it, right from the News Feed.

New Facebook News Feed Subscription Options

So if you only want to see their photos and status updates, just leave those checked. If you decide you’ve had enough of them altogether, you can unsubscribe completely or just unfriend them immediately!

The above example is my hubby’s Facebook, so I won’t be doing either of those things to him! Especially since I love seeing his photography.

UPDATE #2 This is only if you hover over the friend’s name. If you hover over the dropdown arrow by the update, you can change your subscription options for the person first, then it confirms the change and asks if you want to unfriend as well. All on the News Feed!

Honorable Mention – The Chrome’s Facebook News Ticker Remover

Ok, this isn’t by Facebook, but you probably will want it. If you’re a Google Chrome user like me and not a fan of the scrolling ticker updates on your News Feed, no problem. Add this extension to your browser and say goodbye to the crazy scroller!

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How I Use Triberr

by Kristi Hines on August 23, 2011 · 45 comments

triberr

Over the last few months, I have been trying out the Triberr service as a way to expand my content’s exposure to new audiences and to give my followers more content from other blogs as well. Now I know some of you will remember my post awhile back about why I turned off Twitterfeed, and you may wonder if I have gone back to automating.

The answer is I haven’t. I was wary of Triberr for the longest time, until I found out that they had created a manual option where you can review posts before you tweet them. That was all I needed to hear to give it a try.

The following is my Triberr strategy. Hopefully this will give those who are not fans of the service a little insight into some ways it could work for you.

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3 Great Social Media Lessons From Ancient History

by Ajay Chavda on July 27, 2011 · 21 comments

This is a guest post by Ajay Chavda.

Social media is capable of changing you, your business or your perspective overnight. It is important that we understand the social media before jumping on the social bandwagon. Tweeting, Facebook sharing and video making is only a miniature subset of the entire social ecosystem.

History can teach us a lot about social media. In fact, history has known to be the very supporting pillar of social interaction. Various events spread across the timeline in history can teach us how to successfully derive, build strategy and effectively tackle a business solution.

Every now and then, we see people using history and strategies to tackle various sporting competitions. We can take ancient events to understand and implement a strategy in social media.

Let me give you a few examples which provide useful insights to leverage your output from social media.

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6 Reasons Why I Like Google+

by Kristi Hines on July 25, 2011 · 36 comments

After using Google+ for a few weeks, I decided to share some of the reasons I like it so much, and hope that it will be an attempt at social networking by Google that will stick around for the long haul.

Google+

1. No automated updates.

Thus far, you can’t feed your Twitter, Facebook, or other updates into your Google+ stream. This means that if you see an update by someone on Google+, they actually made it on the network itself. Less noise, less spam.

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3 Simple Ways to Find Relevant Twitter Followers

by Kristi Hines on July 18, 2011 · 34 comments

Tired of all the tricks of the trade advice when it comes to finding quality people to follow on Twitter in the hopes that they will be interested in your tweets and follow you back? Chances are you have been missing a goldmine of new people to follow.

Where are they you ask? Why they are on your favorite blogs, of course.

I’m not talking about the owners of the blogs whom you are probably following already. I’m talking about the guest bloggers, contributors, and even blog commenters.

Granted some article contributions may be from people who are getting paid for these writing jobs, but even freelancers could be bloggers with an interest in your niche too, so don’t count them out.

Simply answer these questions, and do the following to build your network with quality Twitter followers.

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