Facebook Shares on Sale This Week

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A roundup of some Facebook news

Facebook shares will be on sale this Friday but it may prove difficult to get your hands on any. Most will only be available through brokers with whom you will have to had several previous trades and even then your purchase won’t be guaranteed. THIS ARTICLE from Continue Reading

Are You Ready?

Facebook timeline is now compulsory for business

A couple of weeks ago we wrote about the changeover for Facebook Business Pages, as of today we will all be using the new timeline whether we like it or not. At the time or writing the previous article we hadn’t changed the MW marketing page but we did manage to get round to it before the deadline. As usual with Facebook there are some good things and some not so good things, for example you get a nice big image to use for your landing area (See MW marketing example below) but you are restricted to the content you can display in it, i.e. no special offers or call to action.



Useful links:

Social Mouths, this article gives a good breakdown of the changes taking place.
Facebook rules, the do’s and don’ts for business owners.

A Very Big QR Code

42 feet to be precise and it’s on the roof of the Facebook HQ

We haven’t read much on QR codes recently but we did come across this story on Design Taxi today and thought we would share it. You can read the original article and the details on why Facebook painted a QR code on it’s roof at Tech Crunch, the team behind the QR code at Facebook also posted Some Videos of them in action.

If you scan the QR code (It does work, we tested it) you will be sent off to a Coming Soon page, we will have to wait and see to find out what will appear but Facebook are promising us that it will be something ‘Really Cool’.

Yet Another New Facebook Page!

Are you ready for the change in Facebook business pages?

Timeline is coming to Facebook business pages on 30th March so just a few weeks to get things sorted out. Luckily you can preview how the changes will impact your business page. You can also publish ahead of time if you wish which gives you a good reason to contact your audience and ask for some feedback before the official launch.


Switch to the new Facebook page


We haven’t got round to updating OUR PAGE yet but we will be taking a look some time next week. In the mean time it’s worth reading THIS ARTICLE from Social Mouths, it gives a good breakdown of what is about to happen.

As usual with Facebook there are some good things and some not so good things, for example you get a nice big image to use for your landing area (See Hubspot example below) but you are restricted to the content you can display, see FACEBOOK RULES.


Hubspot Facebook Page

60 Seconds of Social Media

Just how much do we view and share?

175,000 tweets a minute or just over 2,900 a second, is that a lot? Found this info graphic on Wall Blog, originally came from Social Jump Start, short but sweet look at sharing on the main social networks and gives you an idea of the scale and usage of those that dominate and of those that are trying to catch up.

How much do we share on social media sites