Tuesday Tips: Articles Explaining Facebook's Changes

Last week I mentioned that for this week's tips, I would provide links to articles outside of my blog which explain, in detail, what the changes mean - or at least their interpretations of them.  Normally I avoid linking to outside sites during my weekly posts unless it's for Friday Facts or Saturday Shares, but as I am uncertain on the changes and other social media experts seem pretty certain, I'll leave them to do the explaining.

The first article "5 Trends That Will Change How You Use Social Media in 2015" is from Hootsuite and talks about shopping coming to social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook as well as how changes in followship are affecting choices.  It also discusses the changes in Facebook's Privacy Policy and things related to it.

The next article is "Facebook Changes You Need to Know for 2015" on Business 2 Community.  This article provides changes to pages, including the fact Facebook no longer wants "Promotional (Sales-y) Updates/Posts" as well as getting rid of the "Like Gate".  The article also covers a new "call to action" button that will be available to pages this year.

Kim Komando's site also offers an article titled "3 big Facebook changes coming in 2015" which covers the fact (similar to above) that promotion posts won't show up in fan's feeds, the updated Facebook SEO as well as the "Like Gate" removal covered in the above article.

Finally, one of my favorite sites, Social Media Examiner, has a few articles to look at, including "New Facebook Terms: What Marketers Need to Know" and "New Facebook Terms: What Marketers Need to Know". Both of these articles are extremely insightful to the new changes coming (or already here) on Facebook.

If I see any other articles before next Tuesday, or down the road, I will use Tuesday Tips to link to them to help social media marketers read as much as they can about the upcoming changes.

If you know of any articles that may be useful, feel free to send them to me via private message on Facebook on our Facebook page or leave them as a reply in the comment section.

Tuesday Tips are a series of tips released on Tuesday each week regarding a hint or tip to help you manage and market your Facebook presence better.  You can find all the Tuesday Tips by clicking on the Tuesday Tips tag below.