Banish FarmVille Notifications From Facebook & 2 Other Cool Tweaks

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Here are three quick mods that you can make to your Facebook account to reduce the clutter and make it more fun. 1. FarmVille Notifications: Now that you have Facebook setup and have added some friends, you might be overwhelmed by the noise on your timeline. If you have friends that like to play a [...]

Social Media: Setting Up a Facebook Account

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Setting up a standard Facebook account is quick and easy. If you haven’t set one up before, here are the basic steps. Open a web browser. Facebook works well with Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari. Go to www.facebook.com and you’ll see the signup screen. Enter your first and last name along with a current [...]

Social Media: An Overview of Facebook

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As we enter week two of our social media adventure, we put our focus on the ever popular Facebook and how we can harness its power for personal, business, and individual branding applications. Facebook was founded in February of 2004 by former Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg, who ran it as a hobby project with some [...]

Twitter: Finding Amazing People to Follow

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As you get started with Twitter, the whole concept of following people can be a bit intimidating. Who should I follow? This is always one of the first questions that comes to mind. You can start following your friends and acquaintances by allowing Twitter to look up your e-mail connections. You can search for celebrities [...]

Mix Twitter and Google Search For Amazing Results

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John Jantsch over at the AE Open Forum posted an incredibly useful article about combining Twitter and Google search together. He lists seven different ways you can use advanced queries to find the data you want. I gave some of his scripts a try and I was blown away how powerful they are. The seven [...]

Twitter: Create a Custom Background With Powerpoint

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Out of the box, Twitter comes with 20 built in themes that you can select from. They range from the default light blue theme with clouds, to more whimsical themes featuring leaves, trees, and birds. While these themes are a good starting point, you’ll certainly want to change the background to show the world who [...]