Social network tips

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.

We like an idea of sharing some interesting focusing on specific groups of people and active having the same interests and jobs and like to suppose that these professional can help people from different towns and countries but having the same careers to meet and discuss common problems and meet new friends having the same interests.

This time we decided to focus on such interesting professions as librarian and gathered in this article the most interesting for our point of view Facebook applications which may be very helpful for all people related somehow to this profession and who like an idea of communications with people of the similar interests within Facebook social network:

Books iRead

Having more than 200 thousand of registered this helpful application turns to be the most popular application for book reading fans and active social users on Facebook. iRead allows to do lots of things like sharing your own virtual bookshelf with all your FB friends and show them e the titles of books you are currently reading and those titles of books you are just going to read. Besides you can also form list of books you have read few years and those books which you will never going to read due to some personal reasons you can point out if you want.

Rating book titles and spotlighting your favorite book reviews you have read or maybe written by yourself are also included. This is very helpful application for all those people on Facebook who can’t imagine their lifestyles without reading interesting books and librarians in particular. Fully customizable setting will let you set this app as you like and discuss your favorite books with all your Facebook friends who have joined this application as well.

Librarian

This is a great online Facebook librarian service allows to check out through the links to books, some scholarly sources and even reference resources which this community can add to this page and then vote and rate every single book just like in the previous book app on Facebook. Add to this a great option known as “Ask a Librarian” where you can actually ask for a professional advice because many librarians find this app very cool and displaying their interests and job completely.

UIUC Library catalog

Having this app installed on your Facebook profile you may get an access to the huge library catalogue of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign or even make few requests and get a live assistance from a librarian working over there. Ti service is great for many people – students, teachers, librarians and all those who are interested in reading good books and seeks for a good app allowing gaining an access to the rare and interesting literature masterpieces.

JStor

Stands for a very popular scholarly journal archive which has created a sort of search app allowing accessing to its enormous collection of full-text books and literature concerning mostly social science field. This app supports a remote login access and requires from you being a member of the website of this archive in order to use this app on your Facebook page.

Facebook continues to make its common members a bit happier by launching new services and options for better and wider communication available on this huge social network. If you every day then you have probably notices its recent and very useful feature or service called as Live. About this option and improvement we will talk in the following article.

Starting from the main function and generally the definition of Facebook Live we should appeal to the words of the spokesman which he sent by email to the mass media sources – Facebook Live is for those users who apply this services in order to capture activity that happening on FB at the very moment and displaying this info in the most convenient format. Such definition is not quite clear for an average user but still can provide you with lots of new opportunities about which you can read further.

The Facebook Live is supported by the service of Livestream and features videos from the Facebook staff official sources and in no way the platform for sharing your own videos with your friends. If you feel disappointed wait a bit and keep reading about the options the Facebook Live offers. In order to follow the laws supporting the video distribution rules the Facebook Live service serves exclusively as the natural extension of a user’s FB personal blog and simply starts a new way for communication with their customers on Facebook more straightly. In such way the Facebook Company proves the fact that for now it is not going to get into any content production issues.

You can make sure that content which is shown via this new service of Facebook Live is related to the original FB products and options and nothing more reflecting only the self-produced products of Facebook and the stuff concerning this huge social network exclusively. For instance, if a celebrity has launched his/her personal blog on Facebook or the company introduces dome new services and hosts some special events for Facebook users then you will see this info in the Facebook Live stream. In such way you can get all interesting info about the Facebook activity of the last few days and can use it because it will always be at your fingertips.

If you want to see some exclusive interviews with the American and international stars who share their thoughts via Facebook live streaming video channel then you will definitely like an idea and concept of the Facebook Live service. All available and officially promoted info concerning the latest political and entertainment issues and shared by other social media channels in a free way can be watched via this new service launched by Facebook.

Some features of Facebook Live you may like to use:

• the “Ask A Question” option letting the viewers submit their questions to a video moderator;

• the Live Feed option will allow you to update your status with the given Facebook Live info;

• there is an app which you can add to your FB page and use for streaming videos online whenever you wish by storing the most favorite and interesting videos and distributing them among your FB friends;

• the embedding Facebook Live option letting you embed different types of such video featuring the Player widget, the Video Library widget and even the Chat widget. Besides Facebook users will be able to share these exclusively FB videos with their friends on Twitter and Google Buzz, MySpace, Delicious and other similar resources.

If you like an idea of learning more and developing your science addiction by means of applications and prefer to browse this huge social network by studying the world that surrounds us instead of building virtual farms this article is exactly what you need to get more info about different pro science .

To any taste and exclusively for science geeks these applications will help you to explore more secrets and discover new ways to make our life better and more helpful for us and surrounding us people. Besides you can test and examine whenever you like by means of the next bunch of the science Facebook applications:

Science Videos

This tool stands foremost as the totally unique and exclusive engine specifically for science videos added to this huge social network. Every video you will find via this tool you can get as an approved one by reputable scientists for its quality, authenticity and accuracy y of data presented within it. The true gift-app for science fans.

Family Tree

You can build your own Family Tree with the help for this cool science application on Facebook. You can add an unlimited amount of your previous generations of all existing ancestors and even upload photos of those family members you are sure your relatives or simply use their Facebook profile pictures. After customization and management of your Family tree you can display it and show your family and heritage to all your Facebook friends on your profile page.

NASA Astro Photo of the Day

If you are a faithful NASA fan or related somehow to it you will definitely like an idea of posting every day a new photo of the day provided by this governmental pro astro organization of the USA. Enjoy the realistic photos of astronomic objects and phenomena.

F@H Protein Researcher

By means of this application you can aid those scientists wow are signed up for different medical research by offering your ideas or being involved in the process of creation new medical drugs for saving people’s lives. You can simply get certain home task to consider which are easy to fulfill if you have certain practical and theoretical knowledge and experience in any branch of science. For example, the well-know Stanford University and its developers’ team help to understand protein folding/misfolding and other related diseases in order to figure out how to cure them. Help to solve such problems as cancer, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Huntington’s diseases.

My Wikipedia

Display your favorite Wikipedia sections on your Facebook profile page. By the set default options this application can show your daily “Featured Article” from the home page of Wikipedia and can customize any posted article you will choose.

If you visit to get some rest after a long and hard working day then you will definitely find this idea of listing the most awkward and funny fan pages and as one of the most hilarious ones because Facebook social network is not just for communication and sharing content but it was also created for having fun and the next bunch of strange and is the best example of this approach of understanding Facebook as entertaining online social community.

Here we go, the list of the most awkward and funny and still popular Facebook fan pages:

Grass Fan Page

If you have thoughts about some drugs addicts and their huge reunion within Facebook social network forget about this because we are talking about real grass which grows near your house and office and about which people usually do not think a lot unless it deals with cutting. Being the fan of this awkward page on Facebook you will have to save grass from such severe treatment and learn to respect its right to grow on the planet Earth. It sound ridiculous and probably more than 20 thousands of fans who have already added this groups as one of the favorite ones will agree with you. Join and feel the power of grass.

I Hate It When My Home Is Raided By Homicidal Lawn Gnomes at 3 AM

There are only few people who really like these horrible garden gnomes because they are simply creepy and ugly. Only few people however actually hate them and think about them at 3 AM precisely you may think. Wrong! Visiting this group on page to find about why people hate garden gnomes so much and why they are homicidal ones at 3 AM. Very funny fan page having more than 5 thousand members.

Zombies Fans

This page is kind of popular if you are a zombie fan but what is actually this means. Within this group they discuss how good to be a zombie (and the talk is not about movies or comics along with games) and eat other people’s brain. A lot of fun and humor is obvious factor if this page’s success. Come and join this group on Facebook because it is really awesome for true zombie fans.

What’s your pimp name?

Do you actually have it? What a stupid name for a group on Facebook, most of you will thin and come to visit to see it with your own eyes. Add some glitter to your pimp’s cup and create one of the most original pimp names to discuss it within this hilarious fan page on Facebook. “Big Daddy” is far from extraordinary titles these guys create for each other within this funny group.

What kind of sandal are you?

Stupid apps and silly groups are filling Facebook like mushrooms after the rain because seriously who thinks about such stuff in real life. Does a normal person know there are few types of sandals exist and to which of these types he or she belong spiritually? Pure nonsense makes this fan page even more hilarious than its title. Test yourself and communicate with not numerous fans of this strange group on Facebook.

No matter from what point of view you will use and browse the next applications on as a doctor or a pharmaceutist or simple as a patient who desperately needs to get a specific pro medicine – you will find the following list if not complete but at least rather helpful in different life situations. Developed as web 2.0 supporting apps and as simply third party fan applications they can serve and assist a lot when it comes to your health issues. Do not forget about their existence when you need medical assistance. Use to protect yourself and your family members in the risky medical situations and simply to get required knowledge concerning medical issues.

Medline Publications App

By means of this application on Facebook you can add your own list of Medline – listed publications via your Facebook profile and view what your FB friends have listed.

Med Tracker FB Application

Share your own ratings of your doctor’s prescriptions and over the counter medicines and drugs.

Healia Health Challenge Quiz for Facebook Users

Test your health condition and knowledge by means of this interactive and funny health quiz application for Facebook account owners. Challenge your friends to find out who knows more about the first aid and other important health issues motivating tem in such way to learn more about possible ways to solve numerous health problems and be aware of the most obvious symptoms of the most widespread diseases. You will get a certain medical degree within this game and can become whether a Pre-Med, Medical Student or Chief of Medicine participant.

Support the Red Cross Group

Each time you will click on the Donate button within this group located on the special Red Cross toolbar FrozenBear organization will donate money to the Red Cross. They donate one USD for every 200 clicks users on Facebook made so click more often.

Health tips of the day Application

By means of this cool pro medicine application you can get the health tip of the day which is provided by experts from the popular online resource RevolutionHealth.Com where you can get a lot of such advices for free from the best specialists.

Mobile Health Coach App on Facebook

Add to your Facebook page a sort of a mobile health coach center to get health tips letting you life become better and happier life.

Awareness Ribbons App

Wear different awareness ribbons by means of your Facebook profile choosing among more than 300 reasons and concerns to wear one of such ribbons in real life. Every ribbon cause will transfer you to Wikipedia where you can read more about certain disease or a health problem.

Quit Smoking Community

Smoking is the bad habit which is hard to avoid and quit especially if you don’t have any support from surrounding people. Set up your own quit smoking program in order to prevent development of cancer and other diseases you may get as a result of smoking. Reward yourself and help other people to stick to their programs. Make this app as your way to freedom from smoking addiction.

Be an organ donor

If you really want to and can help people on Facebook become an active promoter or maybe even a donor within this group where hundreds of people wait for those who can help them to save their lives or the lives of the closes relatives and friends. Fill in a form online to become a donor organ if you are a resident of the USA.

If you have the latest iPhone 3G version and support then you can boldly read further because we will give a chance to review the best available especially for you and people who have iPhones with supported service of Facebook connect. You can for sure build your own applications which will be highly customizable and fitting for all who browse Facebook via their smartphones or use free and premium complete apps made by other developers to make your online social life easier:

PhoneBook (for free)

There is the common situation when you have a lot of Facebook and iPhone contacts and you wish to make them overlapping and to achieve this is easier than you think by means of PhoneBook. This absolutely free application developed by Somo Enterprises allows syncing your Facebook profile with your iPhone address books by creating a sort of visual phonebook of all your FB friends and applying your Facebook friends’ photos. This makes it enable whenever you need to call or text a message to your friends on Facebook then you can just load this app and click on the picture of your FB friend.

In addition to this cool app of PhoneBook can tell you accurately how many minutes you have spent on phone calls and how many text messages were sent by during the current month so you could control you calling plan. Well, the only drawback is that this app for now works only with AT&T phone calls provider customers and within the USA territory.

iFightU (per 0.99$)

Being in fact very innovative iPhone program but not because of its gameplay (yes, the talk is about application available for all iPhone users having the support of Facebook Connect) due to the fact its plot all about classic side-scroller fighting (like popular Street Fighter) but its peculiarity is about involving your friends into this game making it more interactive like any other game app on Facebook. This is a serious step from iPhone game application developers so do not miss the chance to play this new and awesome game.

Scramble (for free)

We offer for your consideration another popular game app developed by Zynga especially for Facebook users and from now available for iPhone users as well. Being very common to classic board game known as Boggle where you were to look for words in a grid of various letters, but in this new version it much easier and interesting to provide this function by means of touch screen of iPhone. Try this game and you will definitely like it. Besides your friends from Facebook social network can take part into it as well.

Top Friends (for free)

This free app from the Slide’s developers lets Facebook users to divide all their friends into top and non top listed friends (just like in MySpace) still stands as one of the most popular applications within Facebook community having more than 12 millions assigned users. Allowing connecting by means of this free edition of iPhone smartphone straight to FB Top Friends and then visit the interactive map and apply some other apps for having fun with your friends like SuperPoke can do.

At last gave a birth to its new “baby” named as Facebook Places which means that from now numerous members of this social network platform can point out and share their location with their and check in such way location of their buddies as well in order to meet if they are nearby. Right now this feature is available exclusively for the U.S members of this social network but developers persuade that soon this long-expected option will be available for all registered all over the world.

Besides this platform standing for mobile software is quite limited not only because of its geography issues but also because of the narrow group of users who can actually apply this service at the moment. Only owners of iPhones with the latest installed Facebook mobile application and visitors of the website – touch.facebook.com – via the mobile phone browser supporting HTML5 and geolocation services can reach this option in an easy way. However, FB Places developers promise to fix this and very soon.

How to use this service?

In order to check whether his FB friends nearby or not one should choose the option “Check In” while this FB application is running to view the list of places nearby his own location. You can whether to choose a required place you want to check or to type a place’s name manually in order to find your friends. All these check in places you choose are restored and reflected in our News Feed’s Recent Activity section on your personal FB page.

In addition to this a FB user gets a chance to tag his friends who he checks-in as well as he can do this when tagging a FB friend in a photo or a status update. Everything is quite habitual and simple from this point. Numerous group checks-in actions are also included. Plus Facebook Places Application allows you to view other users who are checked in towards your location at a certain place by choosing the section “People Here Now”. As many other options on Facebook “People Here Now” has a number of available privacy settings you can select to make this section visible only for few friends or for a certain group of your FB buddies. In addition to this you can arrange and manage whether your location is reflected in this section or not by setting the privacy options of this application.

What do officials say about Facebook Places?

According to the official sources, Facebook Places let any user control everything he shares and what people share with him. By choosing to check in location of your friends and finding them you have a chance to tag them and arrange their usernames as you wish. In case your friends or a stranger tag you in such way you will get a notification.

Many members who have tested this app in practice admit the best feature of Facebook Places is that your friends and other people can check you in as well. Tagging through the Places app is an easy thing to do and notification system is very convenient to use. All this mutual check-in stuff will definitely become another bond that will connect you and your friends.

Sometimes it is very hard to follow the Facebook chat’s conversation and trace all important contacts you want to save and can’t remember by yourself because you have too many . Being social is cool and you just need to learn how you can save your chat’s history in order to retrieve any forgotten or lost e-mail address or just need to quote precisely piece of texted conversation for your chat with a friend.

There are many situations when you just need to have at your fingertips . And you can easily do this if stick to the tips given below.

Someone may say that keeping all your chat conversations is a bit paranoid but sometimes such precautions can be vey helpful if you need to prove something or to point at some key phrases of your previous conversation with a Facebook friend. Besides, an idea that you can recall anytime any part of your conversation with friends or beloved people is also too tempting to refuse from it.

Unfortunately Facebook doesn’t allow in an official and automatic way to save chat’s history and many users find such disability as a serious lack due to the above mentioned reasons. But is doesn’t mean that you can break this rule and successfully save all necessary chat’s conversations.

As well as any other IM agent Facebook chat tool remembers only few last phrases of the last conversation between you and your virtual interlocutor, these short snippets can be noticed between sign-offs and shown only at 1 page. In such way you can use these snippets to follow the last few thoughts of your virtual conversation. Surely such order of things many members find not satisfying.

To save your Facebook chat’s history completely you need to use alternative ways like your integrated browser’s extensions.

Apply a special Firefox Add-On or Extension of Google Chrome

Some people say that all these extensions and fan-made add-ons have a number of lacks because they were made by non-professionals but such statements are quite childish because even official extensions and applications they offer at Facebook also have certain drawbacks and bugs. So don’t be too strict and enjoy features which are not quite available at the moment in an official way. Recovering all these lacks won’t be unnecessary if you use simple add-ons created especially for providing you with one certain feature like saving your Facebook chat’s history.

There are two variants of the commonly used add-on whether for users for Firefox or Google Chrome. Choose what version is more suitable for your needs and browse in order to find it (for Firefox users – select ToolsàFbCHM àGet Facebook ID and for Google Chrome users – WindowàExtensions TabàFbCHM Options). It is called Facebook Chat History manager (FbCHM) and according to many reviews it works without too obvious bugs and runs smoothly.

Create account from Facebook Chat History Manager using your new Facebook Chat ID this extension gave you. Remember that your passwords to this ID and to your account on Facebook should not be the same to make your chat logs more protected from breaking. After your login onto this Facebook Chat account via the FbCHM you can be sure that all your chats are traced and recorded into special logs you can use whenever you like.

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.