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Public and private spheres: building zones in Facebook
‘Good fences make good neighbours’ – proverb In the time I’ve been researching and writing about Facebook, privacy has come up as one of the most fundamental issues people have. Most people want to understand exactly how the basics work before they get started and they also want to know where the off-switch is. Even [...]
Getting more attention – tagging and understanding notifications
In Facebook as with a number of other tools, tagging is a way of bringing greater meaning to content like photos or text. For example, if you’ve added a photo, you create a tag by clicking ‘Tag photo’, choosing the person’s face and then when you type their name, if they’re on Facebook, you’ll be able [...]
Quick start: 3 ways of building communities on Facebook
In this quick guide we”ll look at three useful ways of building communities on Facebook. Sometimes people worry about using Facebook to talk to people who aren’t personal friends and family. All of these methods allow you to interact with people without needing to be Facebook-friends with them. Pages allow you to use Facebook under [...]
New feature for WordPress.com sites – add Google docs and calendars
The announcement from WordPress that users can embed Google calendars and docs is great news. We often get asked whether we can add calendars to blogs and there hasn’t been a very simple way until now. Google calendars can be a bit clunky and fiddly, but is still better than nothing. The rest of the [...]