Over the last few weeks the Facebook announcement mill has been pretty busy. At their f8 conference Facebook announced the new profile called Timeline that will be released to the public within the next few weeks. However, before the announcement of Timeline and updates to Open Graph, Facebook also released the News Feed Ticker in the right sidebar … [Read more...]
Why Your Business Needs an Online Account Management Policy
In today's business world we have various policies for areas such as sales, follow ups, making contact and how our time is spent during the day when we're in the office. Policies are important and help keep the entire company or department on the same page. Now with the growth of technology in business there's an additional family of policies that … [Read more...]
First Look at Facebook’s Timeline
This past Thursday, September 23, Facebook held its f8 Conference where the CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, announced new updates and changes for the Facebook platform. This year marked the biggest announcements and changes that we have ever seen from Facebook. One of these are the new profile design that has been called Timeline, which will be rolled out to … [Read more...]
Facebook Contests: Do’s and Don’ts
Facebook contests and giveaways are very popular these days. It's rare to not see posts from friends who have just entered to win a gift card or an iPad. It's just as rare to not see posts from company pages that you like promoting their latest sweepstakes and how you can win. Contests are a great way to generate buzz about your brand on the … [Read more...]
First Thoughts on Google Plus
Last week, all of us at A2Z finally received our invites for Google Plus (Google+). In this post, I'm going to share a few of my initial thoughts, reactions and expectations after a few days of exploring Google's brand new social networking site. The Design Upon entering Google+ for the first time there were a few things that instantly caught … [Read more...]