If you’re looking to start creating a voice online for your community using Facebook you might find this video useful. … [Read more...] about Three ways to use Facebook in your community
Public and private spheres: building zones in Facebook
‘Good fences make good neighbours’ - proverbIn 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 … [Read more...] about Public and private spheres: building zones in Facebook
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 … [Read more...] about Getting more attention – tagging and understanding notifications
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 … [Read more...] about Quick start: 3 ways of building communities on Facebook
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 … [Read more...] about New feature for WordPress.com sites – add Google docs and calendars
Facebook in action: creating communities around events
< Part of Talk of the Town: the hyperlocal handbook for Facebook. Click here to go back to the ContentsThis is a clever way of building a community around Facebook's event platform I noticed being used by the very lovely Stoke DJ and all-round … [Read more...] about Facebook in action: creating communities around events