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New Facebook Profile Picture Update

On April 26, 2012 – Facebook will be updating the size of the profile picture on all Pages. In order to prepare for this change, we have created a short blog post in advance so that you can update your profile picture on April 26. The new profile picture will be 160 x 160 pixels and will sit at 23 pixels from the left and 210 pixels from the top of the Page.

If what EyeTrackShop says is true, then it is your PROFILE picture that attracts the most attention on Klout and Facebook.

 

Foundations of a successful campaign

Thank you for joining us today, and to the San Ramon Chamber of Commerce and UC Davis for organizing today’s presentation. The slides used today is posted below. As per our meeting, if you have questions from today’s session, please leave us a comment below.

Here is the link to join us in our monthly Social Media Marketing 101 Meetup Group:

Foundations of a successful campaign

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Why Buy Local ?

Found a great looking and informative ‘infographics’ to annswer the question – Why Buy Local ! from the folks at eLocalBlog

 

 

Social Media Cheet Sheet

A fantastic infographic showing all the main Social Media Tools, their lingo and key highlights. Enjoy – brought to by Ethan Bloch, and Flowtown

 

Facebook by the numbers

A very informative infographics on Facebook, by Online Schools

 

Is social media for me?

This is an introductory training series for Social Media, a 15 minutes segment for business executives to get started. This is by no means a technical presentation, it just covers the possibilities and a few reasons why it’s important.

Social Media Series – Linkedin – a 15 min getting started

As part of our ongoing Social Media training series, this 15 minutes getting started presentation focuses on Linkedin.

How to create a customized 404 page for your website

Yes, having broken links or hard to reach pages where misspelled words are common will eventually lead your web visitors to the infamous HTML code 404 – Page Not Found. Should we ensure that this never happens? We can try, but just in case, rather than provide a simple “Not Found” message like this, we can always make our own.

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Migrating from Blogger to WordPress – a self help guide part 1

Blogspot is a great blogging platform, easy to use, and FREE. It does, however, have some limitations, and if you have reached one of these limits, this two part self help guide will help you migrate to a self-hosted WordPress site. I have written this guide while performing the migration referencing the work of several other bloggers – while taking into consideration the following: Read More→

Spotify – first play

Spotify comes with around 15M songs in their library, not counting the 10,000 songs added daily.

First impression after a quick download and install, is how quick it seeks out all your existing audio files, and presents them all to you in a single command center, the Spotify application. After that, it’s just point and listen – search for a song you want to hear, and Spotify plays the song or the entire album for you – for free! Read More→