Category Archives: Facebook Tips

The Unofficial User’s Manual For Updating Your Facebook Page

Over the past few weeks I’ve received a number of questions about the various ways admins can update their Facebook Page. This topic also comes up a lot during the Facebook Foundations webinars I do with Charityhowto. So I thought it might be useful to outline the various ways users can update Facebook Pages. On…

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Facebook ditching FBML and what it means for your custom Facebook Page

After the recent barrage of changes to Facebook Pages, you’re probably about the rip the final strands of hair out of your head. The good news is that you never ever worry about things like this. Plus bald is beautiful. The bad news is the next big change is a pretty big change. What the…

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How will your nonprofit use Facebook Places?

If you haven’t heard already, Facebook has launched a location-based “check in” app similar to FourSquare. It’s called “Places” and as you’ll see in the video below, Facebook seeks to encourage serendipitous meetings between Facebook friends at the places they hang out. How can my nonprofit use Places? Places is a location-based check-in app for…

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How to resize your custom Facebook Page images in less than 90 seconds (video)

If you’re still freaking out about the changes Facebook is making to their custom tab width, watch this video. In it, I resize an image in a client site pretty quickly – simply by updated the HTML code (inserting width=”520px” between <img and src=).

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Why you don’t need to freak out about the impending Facebook Page changes (video)

Over the past day or so Facebook Page admins have been freaking about the impending changes to their Facebook Pages. People aren’t sure how to deal with the removal of the Boxes tab, and more importantly, how to even know if they have an issue with their custom tab widths. Note: Sidebars created with Static FBML…

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