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How To Edit Facebook Comments

Have you ever typed a comment on someone’s Facebook profile or business page only to realize after you hit the enter button that you made a huge typo? Who hasn’t!

In the past your only option to fix it was to delete and start again.
Well Facebook has finally addressed that problem by giving us the ability to edit our comments rather than rewriting them.

In this video I’ll show you how to edit a comment on Facebook without having to type the entire thing over again.

How To Schedule Facebook Status Updates Without a Third Party App

Here’s a cool little tip that I wanted to share with you.

Did you know you can schedule Facebook Page updates directly in Facebook without the need for a third party app?

1. Simply click in the Status Update dialog box and type your message, add a link, photo, or video as normal.

2.  In the lower left of the window you will see a gray clock face, click it and the scheduler will appear.

3. Select your Year, Month, Day, Hour and even Minute then click Schedule. Read More→

InstaCC Photo Challenges and Calendar View are Winners!

By now everyone has heard the news that Facebook has purchased Instagram for a cool billion dollars. While I have not heeded the call of the Facebook sirens (al a Homer’s Odyssey), I have slurped the cool sugary nectar that is Instagram. Okay, I am piling it on a bit thick, but that’s only because I am paid by the word (or not).

Back on topic. I do enjoy Instagram. Where else can you vicariously live the life of a complete stranger through a series of photos the size of a… Well, the size of a 1 and 7/8 inch square. Okay, you can’t really live their life, but you can look at photos of what they are having for dinner and see what the wing of the airplane they are on looks like out the window. Yes, we have ALL taken that picture.

So now that we have taken the picture of the wing of our plane or what we are having for dinner, what do we do with it? I have reviewed dozens of great apps for making your iPhone photos look even cooler than ever before. But InstaCC is a bit unique as it displays your photos in a camera view and prompts you to participate in photo challenges daily.

Here’s how it works. You log in with your Instagram username and password and allow InstaCC to have access to Instagram. You can post photos using the built in camera feature in the app. If you are working through a photo challenge, you will be given a choice whether to take a snapshot or to take a photo for the photo challenge. If you take the photo challenge your photo will be automatically hashtagged, which is important when you start to look at challenges. Read More→

Photoforce App for iPhone and iPad Allows You to View Your Facebook Photo Stream

Okay, so I don’t use Facebook. Yes, your great grandmother and I are the two who are not on Facebook…But I know that lots of you are on Facebook. So when I saw Photoforce, I knew I needed to review it.

No app could be simpler. Once you download and sign in on Photoforce using your Facebook account, you are able to view the photos that your friends post on Facebook. That’s all. So if you want to see your friends’ photos in an attractive filmstrip format, check this one out. It’s free and easy to use.

So let’s cover how it works again. Download. Sign in. Enjoy.

Go forth and do likewise.

All the best…Mike

Marketing Campaigns for Photographers – The Fabulous Five

Your blog is undoubtedly the most powerful online marketing tool you have at your disposal but if you think that you can rely on SEO and cleverly written post titles to drive traffic your way then think again.

Your blog coupled with the right amount of social media sharing is an effective marketing combination. The question I am often asked is what social networks are best to promote your business and ultimately get more work.

There’s no real answer to that other than there isn’t just one. There isn’t really a typical client for every type of business but there are a few generalisations which can help you.

This marketing campaign is titled The Fabulous Five because it is about identifying at least 5 different social networks where you can drive traffic and potential clients to your site.

Why 5?
Well if you have the time to share on 10 different platforms then don’t let me stop you! Using 5 different social media platforms should be manageable enough and it also gives you a varied enough spread.

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Marketing Campaigns for Photographers – Instagram

As a professional photographer you might scoff at the idea of using an app like Instagram to market your business. Or perhaps the fact that you’ll be using a camera phone to take and share images might chill you to the bone. But the fact of the matter is that Instagram is popular, very popular indeed so why wouldn’t you be embracing a popular photography community?

To be honest becoming a heavily followed and liked photographer in the Instagram community isn’t the target of this campaign but if that happens then it’s certainly a bonus.

The fact of the matter is that this campaign can be done on any number of photo sharing applications or networks, it’s just that Instagram ticks lots of the boxes that I need.

Using Instagram as a tool to promote your business.

There are several recommendations when it comes to the frequency of sharing on sites like Facebook, Tumblr or Twitter but there is an overwhelming agreement that daily sharing is essential to keep fans and followers engaged. The problem is that creating good daily content isn’t the easiest thing to do and it can be quite time consuming. Read More→