Say Goodbye to Facebook Reviews & Discussion Tabs

Facebook has announced as of October 31st, Reviews and Discussions tabs will be removed from Facebook Pages.


What is the reason for this?

Facebook explains this change is a way to make Facebook Pages better. This is their attempt to aid in making the management of your Page as effective as possible.

Additional details from Facebook include:

“We've found that the best way to encourage conversation and feedback is through posts and comments on your Wall. We've removed these tabs for now as we work on tools to help you moderate and filter content. Our goal is to help you manage everything from one powerful place. Stay tuned.”

I think this change is aligned with plans for Facebook Timeline for brands…

What are your thoughts on this change? Will this affect your Facebook community strategy?

Free Resources: New Facebook for Business Site

Today I’m stepping away from Google+ (although not for very long) to take a look at what Facebook for Business has been up to. Facebook recently released the Facebook for Business site which Mashable reports, “provides step-by-step guidance for how to best use Facebook’s marketing tools,” a Facebook company rep says.


Although the site is geared more for those starting out with their Facebook for Business strategy, the site does offer free resources that are worth a read even if just to brush up on best practices for Facebook Pages and Ads.

Below are a handful of resources I collected from the website:

Best Practices Guide: Marketing on Facebook

Building Your Business with Facebook Pages

Sponsored Stories for Premium and Marketplace

Did you find these resources or the website helpful?

InternetMarketingClub.org Presents Live Facebook Page Analysis: Optimizing Your Facebook Page for Engagement

Join Margie Schneider, VP Operations and Stuart Smith, Strategic Director, of Interactive Marketing Consultancy Firm TenGoldenRules.com, as they present, “Live Facebook Page Analysis: Optimizing Your Facebook Page for Engagement.” This Wednesday Webinar provides the opportunity to submit your Facebook Page for a live analysis.

This presentation will explain the following topics:

• How to develop an effective Facebook content strategy to promote engagement
• Best practices for developing custom iFrames for Facebook
• Tips to efficiently utilize Facebook navigation links
• Understanding the various ways to implement a Facebook Page image

Want us to review how your Facebook Page measures up? Submit your Page for a Live Analysis! To submit your Facebook Page, please join the Facebook Page Analysis Webinar Group, and post your Facebook Page submission within the group. Visit the group here: http://bit.ly/FacebookPageAnalysis

Margie Schneider has been involved with the interactive medium since 1994. She has participated in everything the Internet has to offer: developing, designing and delivering web sites; online advertising and promotion; search engine marketing: SEO and PPC and community and electronic communication. Her specialties include: social media, search engine optimization SEO, PPC management, online reputation management, project management, personnel management, strategizing web development and design solutions; as well as experience marketing across all media types.

Stuart Smith has been involved with online marketing since 1998. He has participated in everything online marketing has to offer including: SEO, PPC, email marketing, social media, web design, and landing page design. His specialties include Facebook, social media, PPC management, search engine optimization (SEO), and new emerging technologies.

This free webinar will take place Wednesday, June 29, 2011 12:30pmEDT – 1:30pmEDT. To register and for more information please visit: Live Facebook Page Analysis: Optimizing Your Facebook Page for Engagement

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Simple Tips to Kick-Start Facebook Page Engagement

With more than 500 million active users, more and more businesses are starting to establish themselves on Facebook or build out their existing Facebook presence. Did you know that 50% of Facebook’s active users log on to Facebook in any given day spending over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook? So you have to ask yourself – what is your business’s Facebook strategy?

Whether your business is beginning to establish itself on Facebook or if you are just trying to liven up your Facebook stream, below are a few simple Facebook tips you can implement right away:

• Showcase Your Customers
Show your customers how important they are and how much you appreciate them.

• Entertain
Make your fans laugh, show them something interesting, provide a “break” from the norm.

• Educate
Provide your fans with information, add value, teach them something, inform and share.

• Ask Questions & Engage
Encourage interaction (i.e. using Facebook Questions), ask fans to post photos, ask for comments, encourage the community to share and interact with YOU and each other.

• Take Us Behind the Curtain
Provide a glimpse to what goes on behind the scenes at your Company to engage your fans further.

Facebook Pages Doing It Right
Are you looking for a couple examples of Facebook pages that are doing it right? Although I’m not personally a fan of Oreos, the Oreo Facebook Page does a great job engaging with its fans. They not only entertain and engage fans; they do it in a down-to-earth, fun and relatable way.

The Restaurant.com Facebook Page also does a fantastic job connecting with its fans. The Page provides informational tidbits to its fans, asks questions (asking questions both in status updates and using Facebook Questions) to encourage interaction and uses a bit of humor to brighten up the fans’ day.

Depending on your business, you should also test the Facebook Deals and Facebook Places features to engage your fans further and continue to grow your fanbase.

Do you have other Facebook Page examples that are doing it right? Any other tips you would like to add to the list?

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New Changes in Store for Facebook Pages

Facebook has been rapidly advancing in the past year. After recently changing their messaging system, and launching a Profile redesign, today you will see new features to the Pages.

The new Facebook Pages layout is quite similar to the new Facebook Profiles. Facebook Pages have a nice layer of photos at the top of their page, as well as the navigation below their "profile photo". Some new features are:

• Left-hand information box below the profile photo is now removed
• Page admins can now add their information about their brand directly below the main title
• The right menu highlights the page admins (if you choose to display their profiles)
• The right menu also has a section that shows how many mutual friends have "liked" that page
• Page admins can also "login as a Page", which gives them the ability to interact within Facebook as the Page itself
• Pages cannot post on a user's wall or comment on their status, rather they can post on another page as the brand
• Filters can be applied to bring the most relevant posts from the page's community to the forefront
• The new Facebook Pages can also filter out posts that are not in the language that you speak!

Check out an example from Mashable.com on the new Facebook Pages:























For more information on the new Facebook Pages, visit Mashable.com. What are your thoughts on the new layout?