Last night I was working and decided to take a break and check my email.  As I go through, I saw an email newsletter from a friend and fellow colleague and thought that I could read it real quick.  As I am going through it I am thinking, “hmmm, I wonder how her social media icons look in here”, so I am scrolling and then I think “where are they?”, she must have forgotten to put them in.  So I message her and as we are talking she says this to me “it never occurred to me to put them in there”.  I felt like a ton of bricks hit me…then I got the building thrown on me “you didn’t tell me to put them in there”.  I didn’t? Was I supposed to have?  Should I have to?  I then asked, they are in your email right?”  I was deeply wounded to know that “no, I didn’t know to” was the answer.  OUCH…how are you going to get found if you don’t tell others where to find you? 

Lesson learned for me and her!  Social media is EVERYWHERE…where should you be posting your social media sites? EVERYWHERE!!  Put them in your newsletters, your email signatures, business cards, your resource boxes or author’s boxes in your articles, OTHER social media sites you belong to.  How do you expect to get found if you don’t tell everyone everywhere you go how to find you?

So for those that think I have never told you:  Your Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, etc. should be posted EVERYWHERE if you want to be found there.

I was looking around the web and I ran into a cool and fun tool that I have used on occasion with my updates on my Facebook Profile. Below are 2 of them.

It is the Flip My Text site.  This site will flip what you write so it is upside down, reversed, and a host of other ways.  Check out the sample below:

The other one are the symbols.  The symbols can be done by (make sure your num lock key is pressed) pressing “alt” and a number on the numlock pad and letting go.  You will get a wide range of stuff.  Below I have some examples that you can just copy and paste from, if you don’t want to make your own.

and there are a HOST of others.  You can spend hours at your keyboard typing them out.  You can also search the internet and find a HOST of websites that have them up there, so you can just copy and paste.  You can even download these in a PDF from here if you like.  (I will be updating the PDF to include more during the week.) Just bookmark this blog for easy reference.

Recently, I was asked “How do you share a video you found on YouTube on your Facbook”.

The steps are easy.

1.  When you find a YouTube video you want to share on your wall you do the following:

2. You will see the above picture BELOW the video you are watching on YouTube.  You click the “Share” button and the following box will show (if it is not already):

3. Once you click on the Facebook button, the Publish box in Facebook pops up:

I hope this helps…let me know if you have issues with it.

On occasion you may want to move people from one list to another.  There is a really simple way of doing this.  Go to on the right top and click on “Account”. You will see a drop down box like the one below.

You then want to click on “Edit Friends”, which should be the first option. You will get a page that when you look on the left side, has “Search Friends”, “All Connections”, etc.  If you look down to the next section it is called “Lists”.  Click on the option called “Friends” (should be the first option), shown below.

This will bring up all your friends and on the right (in the middle of the screen, sort of), you can see where you can click on the words “Add to List” or if you have people into lists already, it will tell you how many lists they are in.  You can either click on the one with the check to remove them from that list and click on a list name to add them to another list.  As you can see in the box on the right, you can also create new lists here, too.

This is just a really quick (not proofed for grammar) tip to show you how to manage your friend lists on Facebook.  If you have other questions or comments, leave a comment below!

As with new features added to the social networking world, comes new add-ins to make it easier to add them.  Over the last couple of weeks, Facebook has been hinting and rolling out new “additions” to not only their site but to make the world of web 2.0 more “social”.  They changed the “Become a Fan” to “People who Like this Page” and they are changing the privacy controls and partnering with other Brands (Microsoft and others) to enhance the Facebook Brand.

If you wanted to add the “Like” button to your site you had to add in some coding which is not difficult and takes about a second to do whether you know how to code or not.  It was a matter of opening up your WP and clicking on “Editor” in your Appearance section and then going to “Single Post”  and finding the spot you want it.  When you find the spot (normally at the top or under your content) you just add in this line of code:

<?php echo ‘<iframe src=”http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=‘,urlencode(get_permalink()),’&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light” scrolling=”no” frameborder=”0″ allowTransparency=”true” style=”border:none; overflow:hidden; width:300px; height:25px”></iframe>’; ?>

Now the plug-ins have come out for the adding the “Like” button to your site.  You can add in the plug-ins but remember with plug-ins come more work, slower download speed of your site (the more plug-ins you have the slower your site loads) and the more issues you are likely to have with your site.  It is best to keep plug-ins to a minimum number.

Here is how you add the button in the coding, Nathan does a really good job at showing you how in his video.

If you want some plug-ins:

http://blog.gunnjerkens.com/2010/04/facebook-like-plugin-for-wordpress/

http://buzzknow.com/2010/04/24/facebook-like-button-simple-wordpress-plugin/

and you can search inside wordpress in your plug-in area for more.