Facebook Friday App Review – My Top Fans

30/03/2012 By

What is it?
My Top Fans helps you identify your most intimate friends on Facebook and award them with fun titles.

How does it work?
The My Top Fans app analyses interactions between you and your friends and calculates which of them share with you the most. Once it’s finished calculating you can filter the results by gender and publish them amongst your friends, however if you don’t want to offend those who haven’t made the cut, you can skip this part. The app also creates a collage of your top friends, which can be shared through your photo albums.

Additionally, the app lets you assign your friends with titles, such as #1 Friend, Funniest Friend, Hottest Friend and so on. There are 18 titles in total to choose from.

Getting started
Setting up My Top Fans is simply a case of going to http://apps.facebook.com/mytopfans/ installing the app and allowing it access to your Facebook account. Facebook ‘page’ owners need to have fans in order to install the app.

Closing Comments
If you have a regular Facebook profile My Top Fans is a fun way to let your friends know how you feel about them. If you’re a company or business with a Facebook ‘page’ it’s a fun way to identify your biggest fans and award them for having engaged with you.

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Facebook Friday App Review – Booshaka

23/03/2012 By

What is it?
Booshaka is a web service that lets you view trending topics on Facebook. The service is made up of both free and paid for facilities. Free facilities include access to a ‘top fans’ leader board. Paid for facilities include analytics, social rewards, advanced insights and custom solutions.

How does it work?
Booshaka uses an algorithm to sort Facebook search results into trending topics based on the number of people talking about the topic, comments made about it and how recently it started gathering momentum.

Booshaka also categorises trends by broader topics such as news, sport, music, deals, gossip and more, handy if you’re not searching for a specific trending topic.

Getting started
Before doing anything you need to make sure your page has a minimum of 30 fans otherwise the tool won’t work. If/When you’re page has met this criteria, simply go to booshaka.com install the tool and ‘allow’ access to your Facebook page.

Closing Comments
Booshaka’s indexing of trending topics makes it an incredibly easy way to keep an eye on what’s hot on Facebook. The abundance of stats it provides also makes it a useful tool in any Facebook marketing strategy.

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Facebook Friday App Review – north social Map It

16/03/2012 By

North Social’s Map It app allows Facebook page owners to add a Google Map of their shop or office location to their Facebook page, making it easy for their fans and customers to find them offline. More than just a simple map, the fully customisable tab also offers a “give me directions” field which lets the user enter their location and then get directions to you.

North Social also have their own content management system which gives you the tools to edit their adds as opposed to waiting for them to do it for you. The instant access allows you to keep on top of what appears on your page and saves time. Via the content management system the app can also be customised including a branded header to improve your brand impression.

See Map It in action here.

Become a fan of North Social and view their apps here.

Other North Social Apps we’ve reviewed:

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Facebook Friday App Review – Schedulicity

09/03/2012 By

Schedulicity allows you to add a customised tab to your facebook fan page enabling your fans to book appointments with you. While helping you connect with existing clients who can book appointments directly from Facebook, Schedulicity also helps new clients find you and spread the word about your business.

One of the great things about Schedulicity is their free trial (which requires no credit card), meaning you can try before you buy and if it doesn’t work for your company you never need to spend a penny. If you decide that Schedulicity is the right fit for your business, prices start from an affordable $19 / month.

Click here to see a demo of Schedulicity in action.

Or click here to find out more.

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Get your Facebook Page ready for Timelines (deadline 30th March 2012)

08/03/2012 By

On March 30th Facebook will automatically change all Pages to the new Timeline format. This will change your Page from:

Facebook Before Page Timelines

Before

Facebook Page After auto Timeline update

After automatic update

So if you don’t do anything…. your Page is not going to look great, in fact it’s going to look a little empty, and sad!

With a little bit of effort though you can quickly get your Page looking great again!

Your Facebook Page Timeline MUST DO Checklist is:

  • Cover Photo
  • Profile Picture (logo)
  • Edit your “Favourites”

You can also do a lot more besides, so to take advantage of the new Timelines you should:

  • Add your company milestones
  • Highlight key posts

So, how do you do all of this?

Well the first step is to click the “Preview” button – from here you can see what your Page will look like in Timeline format and edit it. You can then publish once you’re ready (or if you don’t publish Facebook will publish it for you on March 30th).

Facebook Page Timeline Update Warning

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Facebook Friday App Review – FaqPage

02/03/2012 By

FaqPage is a very simple app which does a very useful job. FaqPage allows you to recreate your website’s frequently asked questions (FAQs) on your Facebook page. With a large amount of the UK customer base turning to Facebook for customer service a simple Faq page can save you customers time, reassure them that you are the company they want to trade with and also save you money.

FaqPage is free to add to your page and takes no time at all to set up.

You can see an example of FAQ Page in action here.

Or add it to your page here.

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Facebook Friday App Review – Social RSS

24/02/2012 By

Social RSS allows you to add a blog or a favourite RSS feed to your Facebook page, automatically keeping your fans up to date with your company or organisation’s latest news without you having to post everything in two places. Your readers can even subscribe to the feed through the application.

During the set up of Social RSS you can add up to 5 separate feeds to your profile or page. Tabs are fully customisable allowing you to add a 500 character introduction and a link to your website as well as a whole host of other options. Social RSS also supports different timezones and can include share buttons on your content.

Social RSS is free, while upgrading to the paid version allows you to share more feeds on more profiles and pages.

You can add Social RSS here: apps.facebook.com/social-rss

 

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Facebook Friday App Review – LiveChat

17/02/2012 By

LiveChat for Facebook fan pages offers your fans or customers a portal to converse directly with you through a tab on your Facebook page. Many companies are already using Facebook as their preferred customer service centre and the LiveChat app makes it even easier for fans to reach you, as well as significantly improving your customer service.

Added to your page with just a few clicks, LiveChat enables visitors to log in using their Facebook account making the chat even more accessible – a visitor can be chatting with you or your operators after just 3 clicks. LiveChat is also the preferred software of global companies such as Adobe, Salomon & Netgear.

LiveChat offer a 30 day – no credit card required – free trial, offering you the opportunity to try before you buy and with no immediate expense. If you like what you see and decide LiveChat is the software for you, prices start at $36 / month and rise from there depending on how many operator seats (the amount of people you have available to chat) you require.

 

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Facebook Friday App Review – Flickr Tab

10/02/2012 By

There are many photo displaying apps available to Facebook page owners, and Tabfusion’s Flickr Tab is one of the most popular with over 30,000 monthly active users. Designed for use with Flickr, one of the world’s most popular online photo sharing websites, the Flickr Tab integrates effortlessly with your Flickr account.

Yahoo! own Flickr and in 2011 reported they had 51 million registered members and more than 80 million unique visitors. As of August 2011 the site was hosting over 6 billion photos.

Once added to your Facebook page, all you need to do is login to your Flickr account and your images are displayed to your fans. Your fans can then browse your galleries. The below image shows the default view for Flickr Tab, and there are three more settings meaning your fans can customise how they see your content.

Flickr also has an official app for the iPhone, Windows Phones and the Android platform meaning you can update your fans whilst on the move.

You can install Flickr Tab here…

…see it in action here…

…and join Flickr here.

 

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Facebook Friday App Review – Twitterfeed

03/02/2012 By

What is it?
Twitterfeed automatically updates your Facebook status with data supplied by your website.

How does it work?
It looks for an XML/RSS file on your site and then posts any new information to Facebook, on your behalf. It’s very much a “set and forget” type tool, so once you’re up and running you don’t need to do anything besides update your website.

Getting Started
Before you do anything you’ll need to get your website to generate an XML file when it updates or set up an RSS feed. Once you’ve done this you can set up your Twitterfeed account, which is completely free and simply a case of entering an email address and password. Once your account is set up you can log-in and start adding feeds.

To add a feed you need to enter a name and a link to your RSS feed. You can then select the content you would like to be posted to Facebook e.g. title & description, links etc. For URL shortening there’s a plethora of options including bit.ly, TinyURL, and SnipURL. Certain URL shorteners, such as bit.ly give you stats on how many people have clicked your link, which is handy.

Twitterfeed also allows you to the set how frequently it should check for new post and how many new updates it should post at a time.

Once you’ve carried all of the above simply save your changes and Twitterfeed will begin working its magic.

Closing Comments
All-in-all Twitterfeed is a great way to drive traffic to your website and streamline your activity.

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