Not sure when this started, but I just noticed this today. Facebook displayed a read receipt after a certain amount of time without interaction. The message: “seen at 10:49″ appears, as you can see below
This has been a week of new features for Facebook, first with Page Management App, then Camera, and while I don’t know when this started, more and more little things seem to be popping up all over Facebook.
Today another brand-new Facebook app hit the App Store for iOS. Following Monday’s Page Management App, today we have Camera, a photo-centric app that allows you to look at Facebook through only images.
While reports seems to suggest that Instagram, which was purchased by Facebook for a whopping $1Billion in April, will be unaffected, one has to assume that they were somehow involved or an inspiration for this release.
Already, the biggest advantage this app has over other photo apps is the fact that pics from foursquare, Path, and other apps are all included in the photo stream, not just Facebook or Instagram. Also, the photo roll from your iPhone is right at the top for the all important, increased “frictionless sharing.”
From the Apple App Store:
Share your photos in a snap with Facebook Camera. Post a bunch of photos to Facebook at once, and see what friends are up to with a feed of nothing but their photos.
– Post multiple photos from your camera roll at a time
– Crop and apply filters to give your photos a new look
– Scroll down a single feed of all your friends’ photos
– Tag your friends, add photo captions and say where you are
– See photos from the different apps your friends use
So far the only disadvantage I find is that you can’t use the volume button to snap a shot, oh and it’s for personal only right now.
First posted on the On Ideas Blog
Finally Facebook Page Management for brands gets it’s own application on iOS, appearing in the App store Monday
afternoon in the US. After connecting with your Facebook profile, any brand pages with admin rights appear in the app’s navigation screen.
From the App Store description
Pages Manager helps admins connect with their audience and keep up with activity on multiple Pages, all in oneplace.
Features:
– Post new updates and photos as your Page
– Get notified about new activity on your Page when it happens, no matter where you are
– Respond, post and comment as your Page while you’re on-the-go
– Manage all your Facebook Pages from one app
– View your latest Page Insights
The navigation functions pretty much as a full menu of options for brands, including sharing status updates and photos plus a snap shot of insights. It is missing the message functionality for pages, but one would imagine that will be added.
As Facebook evolves as a publicly traded company they’re starting to roll out a lot of new features. With new application feed changes, increased sponsored content, and now this iPhone Page Management App, Facebook is definitely looking to increase their value for brands on the site.
Page admins can use the app on the go to post photos from events or in-store quick and easy. Since it’s new, it’s still unknown what this will do for Facebook’s Edgerank. One note, you may want to run off the notifications if you have a high traffic page. Great for posting, not for notification alarms around the clock.
Have you downloaded the app? What are your thoughts if you are a community manager or anyone who manages a Facebook page?
With Facebook set to begin trading publicly on the stock market this week at somewhere between $34-38 per share, a lot of talk has been going around about if they’ll be able to sustain the traffic and momentum necessary to support such a large public offering. Followed up with reports that GM is pulling $10 Million in Facebook ads, and a new report that says “half of Americans think Social Media is a Fad,” if you were Mark Zuckerberg (or his hoodie) you too would be trying to figure out new ways to keep users engaged.
If you check out your personal Facebook page lately, you may have seen quite a few changes. Besides the obvious change to timeline, Facebook has been experimenting with a number of new features designed to make your sharing more intuitive and more personal.
Look at your friend list now, it not only shows their profile photo, but their name as well.
The activity feed, which has always been a personal point of contention against the new Facebook Timeline, is now cleaned up, more streamlined, and truly showcases the activity online.
If you look, the new stream pulls everything from new page likes to foursquare badge checkins to Instagram photos and even activity from new Spotify apps into a compact window with a sample of the content.
I think this is a HUGE upgrade for the user experience, and will allow more content from apps and 3rd party sites using Facebook Connect to be seen.
What do you think about the new change to the Facebook activity stream? Let us know in the comments below!
Have you seen any promoted stories inside the timeline like this before? I found this in my Facebook Jacksonville Smartlist, advertising the Yahoo story about Obama coming out in support of Gay Marriage. This is the first time I’ve seen a story promoted like this on Facebook…regardless of topic.
UPDATE: Found another story on another list. This one a different color and about Twilight stars.
Originally published on the Social Fresh Blog
For something to succeed online, it doesn’t need to just be good, someone has to want to share it, according to June Cohen, Executive Producer of TED Media.
June discussed TED’s evolution from a single conference into a global media platform at Mashable Connect this past Friday morning.
And how, along the way, the key has always been inspiring and innovative ideas.
For TED, they discovered early on that the nature of their content created scores of like minded individuals eager to take on the cause of spreading these ideas themselves. Cohen outlined their strategy towards taking these “ideas worth spreading” and inspiring a community of discovery and change.
People want to be a part of something bigger. For TED, the desire to scale to a global level was enabled by an empowered community, who were ready and willing to translate talks into different languages.
To date, TED Talks have been translated into 86 languages through all-volunteer efforts.
There are 1200 TED Talks now online that have been viewed collectively more than 800,000,000 times.
Cohen explained that the increasing widespread use of social media naturally played a part in this process, but more importantly using the tools of the web in the best possible way to increase the sharability of content.
“Online users are exquisitely vulnerable to distraction” said Cohen.
With a rise in mobile, TED embraced the trends of their community and purposely designed their online talks to be optimized for small screen, cut long intros and started the videos strong.
TED also made sure videos are framed close to the speaker’s face. So on a mobile phone, viewers can see the emotion of what is being communicated.
And TED videos can be watched through many devices, embedded, downloaded as free podcast, etc. By embracing open (free) models they aim to reduce the barriers between the ideas and their intended audience.
Your users will usually be the ones to give you your best ideas. They’re the ones interacting within the space in ways a brand may not have ever imagined unless they actually listen.
“We don’t have a monopoly on good ideas,” said Cohen; tapping into that empowered community for global research and development.
Many of the best ideas for TED and their expansion has come from how they listen to requests from their community.
Ask yourself, what do you really need for your company? What do your users want?
How are you engaging your community beyond a piece of content online?
The success of TED talks fueled a demand by individuals to start having their own TED talks and bring the positive message to their part of the world. Instead of allowing it to happen on its own, TED embraced this desire and created the TEDx platform.
This TEDx umbrella gives individual communities this power to come together and host their own TED-like events. For TED, it’s ability to ensure that their message continued to flourish in the way they intended.
At the heart of great media are great stories.
Compelling and diverse content presented in a variety of interesting ways keeps people engaged. What are you creating for your brand’s audience? Is it providing some value that warrants their time?
Cohen cited presentations from Wael Ghonim and Hans Rosling as a sampling of these truly moving presentations that strike a chord and spark conversations in all parts of the world.
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Image source: TED
In one week I’ll be heading to Mashable Connect in Orlando Florida. I went to leave a comment on the Mashable Facebook page and I received this message (posted below) before posting a comment. I have never seen this before. Now there are about three things that come to mind when I see this. 1. Why did this appear for me? 2. Why does it do it over and over? 3. How do I make it go away?
Lately I’ve been working a lot with anti-bullying movements. I spoke on two news broadcasts about the issue, and in these interviews I told students they should not be afraid to flag posts for content etc. Maybe someone is flagging me?
Facebook is tightening up their filters and trying to keep only relevant posts and comments in play?
Mashable is a preferred Facebook partner, so they’re getting special treatment? I tried this on Luigi’s Italian Ice and the rapper Freeway’s page with no message. I tried on my clients Miami Subs and Winn-Dixies pages and nothing.
Isn’t that interesting?
The 2012 Jacksonville Jaguars Draft Party was held at the St. John’s Town Center in Jacksonville, FL. As the team traded up to the 5th pick from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to draft Oklahoma State WR Justin Blackmon, the crowd went wild. This NFL season promises to be something Duval County won’t soon forget! Khan You Dig It?!?
If you’re a Jaguars fan you need to join the Bold City Brigade, a great fan organization for the Jacksonville Jaguars. Check their Facebook page for all the info: https://www.facebook.com/BoldCityBrigade
Both the Khan You Dig It and Bold City Brigade Tees are printed by Minor Threads Clothing, check them out as well! https://www.facebook.com/MinorThreadClothing
Always finding her way in the thick of the action, @TheMissRuiz grabs some shots of the crowd.
Thanks to Pepsi, PRI Productions, the Jacksonville Jaguars, Cox Media who had live remotes, BlackFinn Grill for the tasty Calamari before the party, and of course Anheuser Busch for all the tasty Buds. Here we go!
My good friend Minor Threads Clothing need your help. It’s time for them to scale up production and they’re raising money using Kickstarter. They were such a huge help in creating the famed Khan You Dig It tees nd it’s time we gave back for all the laughs they have given Jacksonville Jaguars fans!
foursquare Day is held every year on April 16th. A grass roots event started by Tampa fans of foursquare in 2010, it quickly spread to communities all over the world. foursquare Day is celebrated differently in each community. Some people have parties, some have lectures, and some simply check in.
Social Media Club Jacksonville hosted a great event at Fionn MacCool’s in the Jacksonville Landing. The weather was perfect, not too hot not too cold, and we were signing up a lot of people for foursquare right there! In order to welcome the newbies, and give a little local flair to the day, I created a badge guide that details how to unlock certain foursquare bases here around Jacksonville. While we had intended this to be a limited edition kind of thing, the response has been overwhelming and we’re releasing the guide as a PDF. Nothing fancy here, just a great guide of some fun places to get out and explore in Jacksonville!
