Social network tips

A few weeks ago with the introduction of a new Facebook profile, we have witnessed a wave of creativity started by the French Alexandre Oudin, who has actually used the features of the layout of this page to customize your profile. In this article, let us see how we use Photoshop to create our own profile page, in fact, after the jump, you can download the PSD file for photoshop that allows you to easily create all the photographic material necessary for customization.

Set the privacy

First, change your privacy settings (if they have not already done so) so as to be the only one you can see photos that you have been tagged. This will be two advantages:

• if you work, none of your colleagues will know that party where you have drunk up to stun
• your page will show the flow of images in your profile, and not where you’ve been tagged

At this point, you can download the PSD file to be opened with Photoshop and start the next tutorial.

Cut out your photo

First, download or create a PSD file.

By opening the PSD file, you will discover that consists of a single level “laundry” in the parts of your profile photo and the flow of images. It looks like the file just open in Photoshop:

What you do is open your photo and insert it in this file, simply open it in Photoshop and drag from one window to another.

This will create a new layer in the layer stack and the new stock will be above the page layout view, drag the layer so that it is positioned below and you’ll see your photo appear only on the holes of the layout sections, namely, those that make up the profile photo and the flow of images.

You have to do now is select the “holes” on the level of the layout, using the Magic Wand tool, move to the level of photography and doing CTRL + C to copy the selection to a new file. Save all selections starting from the far right and names the file with consecutive numbers. At the end of the transaction on your PC you should have 6 files named 1.jpg, 2.jpg, 3.jpg and so on until 6.jpg which is the larger picture of your profile.

Upload photos on Facebook

All you have to do is go on Facebook and change your profile picture, repeat this process for 6 times, how many files you created in the image sequence that will show you the numbers and you’re done.

And you thought as you customize your Facebook profile? Did you use any pictures as in this tutorial, or have preferred to use many different pictures? Let us know with a comment, and if you want, link your profile to show everyone how you customized.

Billions of photos of private and public nature were already uploaded to by its numerous users and probably will be so not wonder members of this huge social network try to find ways to arrange and manage their photos in a creative way in order to draw attention to these photos especially if we are talking about fan pages and to make photos look more professional when we are talking about amateur pictures. In any of these two situations you may need to know how you can design your photo handsomely. And that is when knowledge of creation of cool and beautiful may help.

There are two ways you may follow to create a slideshow for your Facebook photos:

• by appealing to online slideshow applications;

• by using offline slideshow making software.

1) Speaking about online or web based means you can use to create a slideshow we should say that there are plenty of resources where you can get a professional assistance and make your own slideshow like Slide.Com and similar to it websites. Free and easy to handle interface and tools for making a slideshow are the main criteria you should pay attention to while selecting one of such websites. On the example of Slide.Com we will tell you how you can create a slideshow quickly and simply:

• foremost you need to add images to Facebook. It is up to you to decide for sure what photos or images you will add – of you, your friends, your family, reflecting your interests or job. You can use any pictures – there is only one rule concerning nude photos and we strongly not recommend adding such pictures and photos to your personal Facebook page even if it is a private one.

• then you need to go to any online resource like Slide.Com and choose to add those uploaded pictures from your FB page. To fulfill this successfully you need to find the link labeled as “Get My Images” after clicking on which you will be redirected right to your Facebook page. After logging onto FB you can go on.

• select photos of your Facebook albums you want to see in your slideshow. Eventually this resource you use for making a slideshow will copy these photos from your FB account and you need to copy them or upload on this website. There will be buttons or a menu asking you to upload images from Facebook so you won’t miss them.

• after uploading you start customizing your slideshow. If we appeal to Slide.Com there is the button labeled as “Customize Your Design”. It is up to you to decide which style of a slideshow from the offered ones to choose and you will be suggested to select from such customizable options as Style, Themes, Skins, Background, Music, Privacy, Effects and Size. You can preview your future slideshow after setting up all these options. Designing should not cause any problems; everything depends here on your creativity.

• you will be offered to get the code of your slideshow at once you push “Save” button. This code can be added to your FB page according to instructions usually given on such sites as Slide.Com.

2) As for offline slideshows programs it will offer you to make a slideshow from images located on your PC, but the effect will remain the same. You can use Windows MovieMaker or DVD Slideshow Builder in order to create a slideshow of your photos.

If you suppose by mistake that only kids are having fun while uploading their childish videos on and only porn apps developers design video applications for then you may think twice and change your opinion after reading the following article reviewing the most adequate and popular applications developed mostly for entertainment purposes:

Video

This is the most widespread and default Facebook services which you may add as a built-in app to your personal page at once after registration. Its main advantages are in popularity (more than 4.5 millions of Facebook have this app added in their personal pages) meaning it has a huge database of videos and lots of features so every user could find it useful. You are allowed to upload videos which weight no more than 300 MB or last no more than 15 minutes (which is however longer than average clip on YouTube). Such strict limits make the process of finding, watching and uploading your on videos even more interesting because this process is getting to be rather creative one.

Its major functions are quite simple because this built-in Facebook video service is foremost a video version of photo utility based network. It is strange because many users expect Facebook Video to become self-maintained platform within this large social network like for example MySpace developers made but due to the fact there are multiple video applications designed by third party developers such positions is getting to be more reasonable.

Vodpod: Videos

If you have registered on the video resource known as Vod:Pod then you can by means of this app integrate your Vod:Pod playlist with favorite videos and watch them like at any other non-Facebook blog platform. You can display the latest videos uploaded and added by you on Vod:Pod account to all your Facebook friends because they will be shown at once after adding them on your account ton this popular video network. Besides you will get an option of Vod:Pod bookmarklet identifying videos and clips anywhere and viewing the recent updates via your “Pod” being embed on your FB profile. The top 5 chosen by you videos will be displayed only on your account but the first video from this personal top list will be available for the other to watch.

SplashCast

Positioning it as an online video feed aggregator SplashCast looks like Miro in the cloud. You can view RSS feeds and flash embed videos and pull them out from the video player side where a user is allowed to arrange and display his own video channel for his Facebook friends. Besides it provides users with the so-called “View Bigger” option where you will able to view your videos on rBGH.

Mesmo.TV

Developed for proper social video discovery (according to the words of its CEO Davin T.Miyoshi) this service or Facebook video application is for searching videos among other users uploaded clips. You are able to browse and rate videos after watching them but it fact its functions are quite limited and only Mesmo.TV will find it useful.

In a case that someday will change its policy concerning playing music or you also (as millions of Facebook users actually do) find Facebook not so good when it comes to default music options and opportunities for promoting your band or simply to listen your favorite music we offer the list of the most interesting to use music player plugins and apps. Use them wisely because not all of them are the same when it comes to appliance and a set of offered features. Prepare to look through the list of the best for music fans who like an idea of integrating their music libraries straight to the .

iLike

Being also known in the past as My Music app this one is for no one of the most widespread music player app within Facebook social network. iLike lets you as a FB page owner create a new music profile and then scan you music library’s song list straight from iTunes. In a case you don’t have an account on iTunes you can add such list from any other music social network where you have an account. Such app will allow you adding music to your FB page without any obstacles and can help to share your lists among friends and take info about their lists as well. There are also few extra features you may look so check iLike right now.

Mixpod

This is a music player which can play list of your songs on Facebook page of yours. You can use the default skin or customize as you like it in order to make your FB page brighter. Besides it can offer the following feature – when a person click on any song from your list added via Mixpod he or she gets a chance to watch the corresponded videos to this tune on YouTube.

Music

Prepare to get the best Facebook music sharing app after installing on your page Music app. It willet you adding the clickable links leading to the songs you will add to your FB page. You are allowed to upload music from your PC or choose the direct music downloads from online resources.

My Band

This is another cool app which will be the perfect one for you if you are a musician because it helps to create original band page on Facebook, and post totally unlimited number of songs and download music to this upgraded page whenever you want to. You can share your music via this app and sell tickets to your concerts as well. It has more than 4 millions of fans so you should join this army as well if you want to make band homepage on Facebook really cool and popular.

Songs

They say that it is the most popular music player within Facebook so you should check this fact on your own. This app has more than 2 millions of active users telling us that it has certain advantages over other numerous music player apps which can be found on Facebook.

Sometimes it seems that everyone who uses has been already involved into this of constant competition between those members which will more interesting to read and get a decent feed of comments left below every successful change. We don’t know if you really like an idea of using this huge social network only on such purpose exclusively but still have decided o give few recommendations how to spice up your page by means of promoting it via status updates. Hilarious phrases and interesting discussions they arouse can become your best tools for rotating your which is the major task for many users visiting social networks like Facebook.

So, the most interesting ways you can use and themes you should touch while updating your status message on Facebook are:

1) Popular Culture Status Updates

All those references to the mass or popular culture were always estimated well by all people who are interested in this culture and its products. If you mention in your status update someone famous it will reduce your risks to minimum that your update will be left without any comment. Never use info which can be interesting only your friends who have the same hobbies as you do. Not everyone enjoys Battlestar even if you think it is very cool and will never stick to an idea of commenting an update about this show. Make your updates actual for everyone.

2) Apply Numerous Status Updates

If you are sticking to the plan – the more the better, we support you because in the case with posting of a punch line of jokes in your status updates one after another you can achieve the best possible results. For instance, you have the first update message where you put a sort of a quick joke and then post under this joke another status update’s message explaining or continuing this joke. Such consequence can be very useful if your updates are regular and you have a lot of time to experiment.

3) Don’t Forget To Sell Your Joke in A Status Update

Just imagine for few moments that you need to sell your status update joke to someone you don’t know at all. How to do this? By appealing to famous advertisement clips and using such popular brands in your joke in order to cheer up an audience and cause in everyone who reads your updates certain associations.

4) Bear in Mind Who Is Your Major Audience

Try to imagine what people make the major audience of reading your updates. They are probably foremost your friends, family members and friends of your Facebook friends which mean you can joke taking into account all forbidden themes which may offend your pals and other users as well. Be tactful and serious in part because some jokes may hurt.

Facebook is an outstanding platform for promotion mainly because advertising and marketing on this huge is not prohibited if you follow the basic rules and in addition to this resource can offer millions of potential clients which may like your idea, service or product if you promote it well. The same concerns building of your own brand via – you can expect to get the best opportunity. The main task is to use this opportunity with all possible benefits for you and that is why this article was published. We give you few useful tips how to build your with maximum profits.

There were analyzed more than fourteen thousands of posts by the digital agency Beyond which were published on the most famous and popular corporate Facebook fan pages representing the world brands and these analysis results can really help you to figure out how to behave and what strategy to choose while building your own brand practically from nothing using only those opportunities which Facebook may give to you.

These results even got a label “Facebook Four” because they stand for 4 main guidelines all these successful branded companies use while planning their social media advertising and marketing campaign. So here you may found these 4 secrets all these super brands use to stay the best from the best for many years especially when it concerns promoting their services via social networks like Facebook:

1) You are to provide all your customers and in this particular case your Facebook fans with tempting hot offers and discounts (it was proven that more than 40 percents of people would rather join the company which offers discounts or low prices than to the company where quality or services are better but prices are higher).

2) Never focus on negative comments and try to listen to all suggestions and requests to avoid negative comments in future but still never concentrate on responding them (no more than 5 percents of negative comments were found on every fan page which was analyzed because managers were following such politics).

3) Encourage fans for communications and make sure that fans tell their friends and other fans about your service about their positive impressions they have about your brand (it was proven that fans are likely to help each other than to a brand so use this knowledge as an advantage).

4) Also keep in mind that your fan page should contain more images than videos but both should be present. However images should be displayed in a greater quantity, so do not be afraid to promote your service or product and show them in the most favorable light by means of high quality photos. It was proven that fans like an idea when a fan page contains images and texts more than pages containing videos and text.

And the last advice we want to share – never try too hard. It is better to make sure that your service or product is of high quality than to promote your brand covering bad products. Think about it and consider al these advices when creating your fan page on Facebook with the purpose of promoting your new brand.

Besides its communicative options Facebook also serves as a great platform for the third party game developers like Zynga and similar to it companies developing and publishing cool and top Facebook games almost all of Facebook users play. You are probably aware of these even if you are not a player because there is great fuss about such as Farmville and Mafia Wars. Millions of active players join these online social games to try themselves as farmers or gangsters and like to spend hours by chatting and interacting with their virtual friends and rivals appeared in these top Facebook games.

However not only and Mafia Wars can be named when the talk is about the most popular and addictive games Facebook can offer. There is also a wonderful game released by Zynga as well which is called as Café world and stands for a simulator of a restaurant owner and manager.

The following article will lead you through the path of the beginner and will give some advices how to start playing this game and how to make the first successful steps as a new Café World Facebook Game application player.

To begin with we have to tell you what is the main purpose of this game. You will be offered to choose a character that will become your virtual face in this Café World verse. You can customize your character and give him/her a name and make it as similar to you as you can by choosing his/her hair and eyes color and some facial characteristics. We should admit that this game is famous due to its high parameters of graphics and attention to details. Maybe that is why Cafe World is considered as one of the top Facebook games. After choosing a character for your personal Café World game story you will be offered to move him/her into a game by fulfilling for the successful start some simple quests and tasks like cleaning dishes, preparing food and even working as a cleaner. You will have to work at someone else’s café in the beginning so prepare to find friends who have already their own cafes and can offer you to join them and start your own path in this game.

After fulfilling few tasks you will be suggested to start running your own small café you can customize as you wish to make it more personalized and attractive for your virtual clients. You will have some initial and standard stuff you can improve by buying and adding to your café new items like table, equipment and decorating elements. The main task for now is to start earning cash to improve your café business.

Café World as one of the top Facebook games deals foremost with your abilities to make friends. It is not an easy thing to do to start successfully that is why you can expect to get some help from your neighbors and ask them to work as your waiters because not all Café World players like to run their own cafes, some prefer to visit the best cafes or to help the beginners like you. You should be careful treating your neighbors as the most important element of gameplay because they can become also your clients and will estimate your cooking skills.

Cooking is considered as the main task a beginner should master and fulfill in a good way to earn a good reputation among virtual visitors of his/her café. Here everything depends on your manager’s skills –whether you would like to serve only few different dishes costing a lot and requiring a lot of time to prepare and expect to get some positive reviews from satisfied clients because the longer you will prepare a dish the better it will be estimated or you may choose the strategy of serving a lot of quickly prepared dishes costing not so much and earn your experience points and money in a fast way.

Try to play one of the top Facebook games – Café World – and you will definitely enjoy its user-friendly interface, interesting gameplay and captivating process of creating your own virtual café industry.

You have probably heard about the popular series of online games combined under one common title – Mindjolt Games on – which means that these addictive were developed especially for online communities and social networks surfers who want to spend few hours by playing one of such cool Mindjolt games on .

If you are aware of these Mindjolt or heard about them from your virtual friends but still do not know which of these Midnjolt games are the best ones and perfect for a beginner then you are at the right place. Beware of growing addiction to these Facebook games because they are really engaging and interesting to play. Keep reading and learn in brief about the top 5 of the most popular and interesting Mindjolt :

1) Bouncing Balls stands for a simple game based on the very easy to understand concept – clearing all the balls from your game screen till the timer counts down your seconds or minutes left to fulfill this task. You will be offered to clear the colorful balls by shooting them with the help of a cannon shooter. The task is to notice and then clear the row or a column of the balls having the same color until you will manage to make your game screen free from any balls. Sometimes balls can change their color and that is when you need to reveal your mental abilities and attention. This game is very addictive.

2) Crazy Cabbie is considered as one of the most popular Mindjolt games on Facebook beloved by millions of users all over the world. Imagine that you are a crazy taxi driver (like there exists any normal taxi driver) who has to drive being on the very busy highway and trying to departure your customer as fast as you can by changing lanes and avoiding car crashes with the fast moving cars and other vehicles moving towards you. The best thing is that you have a timer counting down the left minutes you have to deliver your customer to his/her destination point. You will be offered even to jump over the other cars but only if you gain enough amount of experience points.

3) Bricks Breaking Game is also very simple to understand. Your task as of a player is to break as many bricks as you can having not enough time to fulfill this in a slow manner. It has some similarities with the previous game Bouncing Balls because you will have to break bricks of the same color forming lines in a block. It has some peculiarities you can figure out by playing this cool Mindjolt game.

4) Christmas Crunch is a unique game and it is played not only before Christmas but the whole year round. You will be offered to crush the Christmas decorations like toys and socks and other ornaments used for this holiday. Yes, it may seem a little bit strange but still not all people like Christmas especially they have to decorate the whole house by themselves. Besides crushing highlighting Christmas ornaments can be a very funny thing to do.

5) Pool Master game is for pool professionals or beginners who want to master the skills by practicing some tricks and sticking to the classic game of billiard. For your consideration this simple game can offer a very serious pool simulator having several modes to choose from. Try it and you won’t be disappointed.

If you are an active web surfer and in equal ways adore social networks and blogs or forums and dream about combining both of your favorite sites at one place or to gain access from each personal page you have in Web to other pages of yours then this article is exactly what you need especially if you intend to “add to my website” (one of the most burning questions in Web).

No wonder that people who have are active Internet users enough to have personal websites or pages and blogs on such popular platforms as WordPress and Blogger. Surely you have seen at such blogs a number of buttons and widgets depicting a Facebook logo which means that users who post at this blog are Facebook account owners and invite you to visit their personal of fan pages on Facebook or to use Facebook Share or Facebook Connect buttons to connect with your own Facebook page from a blog or a website.

If you seriously want to know which are the main widgets and applications you can use to answer the burning question “How to add Facebook to my website?” then read further and you will see a number of interesting, entertaining and user-friendly widgets Facebook fans use to connect with their accounts from other websites or to copy all content from Facebook pages to their blogs and visa versa and to fulfill a lot of additional options everyone who has multiple accounts on numerous websites and positions himself as an active blogger and Facebook member can estimate:

1) The first application will help you to show all your information posted on Facebook at your own website. This is a widespread widget – the so-called Facebook “badge” – meaning that you can by means of it add Facebook to my website automatically copying all info from your personal page up to your website. Profile Badge menu is usually located from the left side. This widget is very useful and easy to handle because it is not complicated to install on your website and then on Facebook and it can offer to you an ordinary badge, profile badge and even a photo badge to display one or all of them on your website. You simply choose where you want to see such Facebook badges and that is all – they start working. Use “Like” badges as well to determine who of your active Facebook friends you like or maybe dislike and their usernames will be displayed on your websites too. Besides by means of such badges on your website visitors will be able to gain their profiles on Facebook at once.

2) Another widget deals with an opportunity you can offer your visitors – to share content or posts of your blog or a website with their friends on Facebook. This widget can increase the popularity of your website at once, especially if content of your site is really interesting. The widget is called “Like” widget and looks like the button people can click if they like a post or an article and share this opinion with their friends. And again such widget can be very useful for increasing popularity of your website because you can figure out what posts are the most interesting according to the opinion of your constant visitors.

3) Our answer to the question “How to add Facebook to my website?” wouldn’t be complete without the brief review of the widget called as the Activity Feed widget that can help you to see the latest updates happened on your website and check what were the recent articles and posts people have shared with their friends. Besides, by means of this widget you can without any problems to see who of your visitors’ friends on Facebook shared your website content after your visitors shared it with them. In such way you can figure out what is a path of your post and analyze why people like it so much.

Using these widgets and applications you can boldly be sure that you know the best ways to answer the question “How to add Facebook to my website?”

Many surf on this global and huge social network not only being in search for entertainment or chatting but for promoting their occupations and business. Luckily such actions are quite legal which give lots of opportunities to those young and ambitious businessmen who are in urgent need for promoting their business but do not have enough money to pay for advertisements on TV or on some popular radio stations. In this sense is a true revelation and savior for small and local companies who can attract their clients simply by advertising and promoting their business, products or services on their business .

However, a lot of huge corporations and companies also have their business or to contact with their clients – listen to their complaints and requests, analyze users’ reviews concerning new products and services. As you see Facebook is a great platform for corporative business owners and for local businessmen and is one of the most perspective and growing branches of the Internet marketing industry.

That is why if you are a businessman and want to advertise your business or to draw attention of potential clients you should already be on Facebook and start to create your own business Facebook page. And the following tips will help you to avoid all pitfalls dealing with the violation of Facebook Policy and TOS and assist to find out which of your actions can be taken as legal and which intensions are strictly prohibited and can cause banning of your FB account or even IP address:

1) At first you should sign up for account on Facebook to start your own business Facebook page. But it is strictly prohibited on Facebook to register a new account positioning yourself as a company and using a corporate name or a brand title as your username. You should point out your full name and only then after creating a profile for yourself you can move on and create a business Facebook page to advertise your occupation or company in a legal way.

2) After signing up and getting your Facebook page you need to click on the link titled as “Advertising” located at the end of your page on this social network.

3) You will see a new page with a number of links and tabs on it. Choose the link titled as “Pages” (located at the top of this new page). This link will redirect you to another page where you can watch in screenshots what features you can use to create your Facebook business page. Take it as a sort of official tutorial, view all the screenshots and read info attentively if you have no any idea how a good business page on Facebook should look like. You will be offered also to visit some pages with lots of fans as the samples how does the proper business or fan page has to look like.

4) The last step you should fulfill is to think about the logo design of your business. If you have no logo, appeal to specialists or to designers’ pages on Facebook. This is a growing industry that is why it won’t cause any difficulties to find a qualified professional.

Try to make your business page good-looking and appealing to potential clients. Read attentively or ask your followers if they like a design of your page and what they would like to add to your page. Do not forget to point out all contacts of your firm so people could call or visit your website if they are interested. Create photo albums with high quality photos of your products and services. Make friends with fan pages of similar business niche. Trust us, a lot of patience, diligence and persistence will make your page popular and your business successful on Facebook.