Showing posts with label Thursday Tutorials. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thursday Tutorials. Show all posts

Thursday, September 17, 2015

Thursday Tutorial: How to create a Twitter list

I've mentioned several times about creating lists on Twitter. Twitter lists help people to get seen but also help others to see people you follow. Lists can help you sort people into categories based on their type of posts. I have lists for authors, book promoters, social media marketing, gaming and a few other categories. You can promote your lists as part of your tweets as well.

Don't know how to create a list? Well that's what this tutorial is here for.

Login to your Twitter account then look at the top right next to the Tweet button where your Avatar is. Click on your avatar to generate a drop down menu. Click on Lists. This will take you to a Lists page that looks like this:


On the lower right hand side, click on create new list. It will generate a pop-up menu that looks like this:


Fill out the name of the list. The description is optional, but could be handy if you have multiple lists that are similar and want to differentiate them a bit. From there you can chose whether others can see the list you created (public) or if only you can see the list (private). Once done, click "save list" and it will load a page like this:


You can add people to this list by searching for people. The other option is to go back to your profile and go to your Following page, which looks like this:


From here, you can select the little gear icon on anyone you want to add to a list. The gear icon will pop up with these options:

Click on "Add or remove from lists" and the following pop-up window will appear:


Simply put a check mark in the boxes of the lists you want to add them to - yes you can add them to more than one list - and then click on the X and you're done.

However, if you want to create a new list, just click on Create a list. The same image from above for create a list will pop up, complete it and it will return you to this page. You will still have to check mark what lists you want and close out.

Pretty simple!

Enjoy your list making!

Thursday Tutorials are a series of tutorials designed to help people who may not be as Facebook savvy as other people. Some tutorials will be targeted towards newbies to the social media world, others will include tutorials for more advanced users. Thursday Tutorials are written for the layman and are designed with everyone in mind. You can find all the Thursday Tutorials by clicking on the Thursday Tutorials tag below.

Thursday, July 30, 2015

Thursday Tutorial: UPDATED: How to Find the Activity Log


More than a year ago, we posted a Tutorial on how to Find the Activity Log within Facebook. Just like a few other tutorials we had to update due to changes with Facebook, this one also has been updated.

The you can view and edit your pending posts, schedule posts, expire posts, view drafts and more from the "Publishing Tools" menu found at the top of your page, as seen below.


When you click on "Publishing Tools," this page will load.


If you have drafts, a post scheduled or posts expiring, you will see a number to the far right of those terms showing you how many posts you have waiting.

If you click on any of those terms and they are empty, it will simply load the appropriate page while telling you that there are no pending posts.

If you have a pending post, you'll see this:


If you click on the post, a screen will pop up like this:


You can edit the post, or chose other options from the drop down menu, including remove scheduled post, post now, etc.

So if you haven't used the new Publishing Tools option, you might want to check it out.

Thursday Tutorials are a series of tutorials designed to help people who may not be as Facebook savvy as other people.  Some tutorials will be targeted towards newbies to the social media world, others will include tutorials for more advanced users.  Thursday Tutorials are written for the layman and are designed with everyone in mind.  You can find all the Thursday Tutorials by clicking on the Thursday Tutorials tag below.

Thursday, July 23, 2015

Thursday Tutorials: Exporting Facebook Insights

Looking at Facebook statistics can be a little overwhelming and sometimes a little distracting (especially if you have people messaging you a lot). If you want to look at your statistics off of Facebook, you can easily do this with the EXPORT option found within the Insights area of your Facebook page.

To do this, simply load the page you want Insights from and click on the Insights option. At the right hand side of the Insights area is the word "Export" Click on that.


When you click on Export, this box will pop up and grey out the screen behind it.  Note: if you click anywhere but in the box to get the data, the box will disappear. Just click on export again to start over.


Figure out what you want stats for and the range of dates and the file format then click Export Data. Note, if you want information for each file type, you will have to go into Export and select a different file type and export it to see all the stats.

Once you export you'll see this pop up. It's not up for long and vanishes really quick, restoring the page to Insights.


The file will automatically download. If you use Chrome, it will appear in your downloaded files bar at the bottom of your browser.

Thursday Tutorials are a series of tutorials designed to help people who may not be as Facebook savvy as other people.  Some tutorials will be targeted towards newbies to the social media world, others will include tutorials for more advanced users.  Thursday Tutorials are written for the layman and are designed with everyone in mind.  You can find all the Thursday Tutorials by clicking on the Thursday Tutorials tag below.

Thursday, July 9, 2015

Thursday Tutorials: Creating a Collection with Google+


Google+ Pages now have an interesting new way to help you group posts together to better promote your brand. I came across this today and decided that since I hadn't tried out Collections yet, this would be the time to do a tutorial on it.

You can access "Collections" by loading the page you want to create a collection on. Below your cover image, you have several menu choices, as seen below.

Click on "Collections." Since you haven't created a collection yet, you'll see a page like this:

Scroll down to the bottom and click on the blue "Create Collection Button." When you click on it a popup like this will appear with everything behind it greyed out.


So figure out what you want one of your collections to be about and fill out the information in the boxes. For this one, I want to create a collection for featured homes on the site.


Once completed, hit create. That will take you to a page that looks like this which you can customize to how you want it to look.


In this area is where you create posts that you want under the collection. I was hoping I could group old posts into the collection, but that apparently isn't available (yet).

This page is completely customizable and you can even share just the collection with others.

If you go back to your main page and click on "Collections", you will now see the following:


This will allow you to add posts to your already created collection as well as create a new collection in the future.

This seems like a really neat feature that has been released by Google+ and I look forward to playing with it more.

Thursday Tutorials are a series of tutorials designed to help people who may not be as Facebook savvy as other people.  Some tutorials will be targeted towards newbies to the social media world, others will include tutorials for more advanced users.  Thursday Tutorials are written for the layman and are designed with everyone in mind.  You can find all the Thursday Tutorials by clicking on the Thursday Tutorials tag below.

Thursday, July 2, 2015

Thursday Tutorials: How to Pin a Google+ Post


We continue in the theme of the previous few weeks of pinning posts on social media. Since we already covered how to pin a post with Twitter and Facebook, today we're going to look at pinning a post with Google+. And believe it or not, it's almost easier than the other two.

So, to get this started, you need to be on a page that you own on the account that owns it. You can chose a post you recently posted or write a post and post it. Scroll down to that post (or the recent post you want to pin.


When you mouse over the post, a drop down carrot will appear in the right corner.  Click on this carrot to create this menu:


Click on the top "Pin post" option. Once clicked the menu disappears and after a second, this message appears.


Click on the blue "refresh to view" and it will refresh the page. Your pinned post will look like the following post looks:


To reverse it, click on the carrot again and simply click "Unpin post." Pretty easy!

Thursday Tutorials are a series of tutorials designed to help people who may not be as Facebook savvy as other people.  Some tutorials will be targeted towards newbies to the social media world, others will include tutorials for more advanced users.  Thursday Tutorials are written for the layman and are designed with everyone in mind.  You can find all the Thursday Tutorials by clicking on the Thursday Tutorials tag below.

Thursday, June 25, 2015

Thursday Tutorials: UPDATED: How to Schedule Posts via Facebook


Today's Thursday Tutorial is a guide showing how to Schedule Posts within Facebook. This has changed since the original tutorial posted in February 2014, found here. It's even easier to schedule posts than previously.

For this guide, I'm using one of my fanpages for UO Home Decor, to demonstrate scheduling a post.

Access the page you wish to schedule a post for.  At the top right corner of the status update box, insure that it's set to post as that page, as seen below.


Once verified, click in the status update area. This will generate the box where you can add text as well as the "Publish" button and the drop down button to the right of it. If you click on the down arrow you get a menu like this: 


Note: if you click on "Schedule" at this point and you put the date in and click Save it will error out because there is no text in the status field. So don't try to schedule the post till you have text in the field.

Once you've posted your status for the future, click on Schedule. This window will pop up where you can schedule a date and time.


Fill out the time and date you want and hit schedule.

If you accidentally forget to change the date and hit schedule, the following error message will pop up.


Once you've successfully scheduled the post, the pop-up boxes will disappear and a message like this will appear beneath the status box.


And that's it.

Remember, scheduling posts ahead of time is a great way to keep your Facebook page current and active.

Thursday Tutorials are a series of tutorials designed to help people who may not be as Facebook savvy as other people.  Some tutorials will be targeted towards newbies to the social media world, others will include tutorials for more advanced users.  Thursday Tutorials are written for the layman and are designed with everyone in mind.  You can find all the Thursday Tutorials by clicking on the Thursday Tutorials tag below.

Thursday, June 18, 2015

Thursday Tutorials: How to pin a post on Facebook

Last week we showed you how to pin a post on Twitter. Today, we will be showing you how to pin a post on a Facebook page - which is almost as easy as pinning a post on Twitter.

To start, go to your Facebook page that you want to pin a post to. Keep in mind, when pinning a post it should be something significant, like a current promotion or a popular tip or something like that that will change from time to time.

Scroll down to the post you want to pin. On the right hand side there is a carrot (or down arrow whatever you want to call it as it looks like this: v.  Click on it to get a drop down menu like this:

Click on Pin to Top. Once selected the page will reload and the post will have a little gold ribbon it above the drop down menu option, as seen below:


To unpin a post, just click on the drop down menu button again and click on Unpin from top.

Pretty easy!

Good luck!

Thursday Tutorials are a series of tutorials designed to help people who may not be as Facebook savvy as other people. Some tutorials will be targeted towards newbies to the social media world, others will include tutorials for more advanced users. Thursday Tutorials are written for the layman and are designed with everyone in mind. You can find all the Thursday Tutorials by clicking on the Thursday Tutorials tag below.

Thursday, June 11, 2015

Thursday Tutorials: How to Pin a Post on Twitter

Thursday Tutorials returns with a fairly simple tutorial. A few weeks ago in Tuesday Tips, we suggested to pin a post in Twitter. Today, we go through the steps to learn how to pin and unpin a post on Twitter.

First, Login to Twitter. 

Once logged in, click on your profile image either on the left or at the top right. If you click the left image, it will just take you to your profile page. If you click the top image you will have to choose to visit profile. That should take you to your profile which shows all your posts. 

Find the post that you want to pin and click on the ... (more) option on that post to create the drop down menu seen below.


Select "Pin to your profile page" to pin that post. Once you do that the following message will pop up on your screen.


Click Pin and that message will disappear and the following message will appear.


Click on view now to see your pinned post.


You can tell when you have a pinned post by the "Pinned Tweet" and thumbtack icon that's shown in the red rectangle above.

If you want to unpin the posts, you follow steps much similar to pinning the post. Click on the ... (more) button to bring up the options.


Select Unpin from profile page. Just like last time, a confirmation window will appear, similar to below.


If you are sure that you want to unpin the post, simply click unpin.  Just like before the confirmation message will pop up like below:


And with that, you're done. Pretty simple like I said.

Keep your eyes open for other tutorials.

Thursday Tutorials are a series of tutorials designed to help people who may not be as Facebook savvy as other people. Some tutorials will be targeted towards newbies to the social media world, others will include tutorials for more advanced users. Thursday Tutorials are written for the layman and are designed with everyone in mind. You can find all the Thursday Tutorials by clicking on the Thursday Tutorials tag below.

Monday, February 9, 2015

Monday Funday: January in Review

The first Friday of each month, I do a quick article reviewing topics from the previous month, including links to the articles, breaking it down by platform and theme as well as providing a link to read the full article.  Unfortunately, while I started the article on Friday, I didn't get to finish it till Sunday night, so it's not going up till Monday. A wee bit late.

As always, I'm glad to answer questions folks have and look forward to more questions coming my way.

The Monday Search - These are the job listings I posted each week.
Tuesday Tips: All
  • Jan. 20: Tuesday Tips: Don't Give Up - A brief discussion about not giving up on social media even if it seems like what you are doing isn't working. Remember it takes time to build a brand, build followers and build followers who engage and interact. Give it time.
  • Jan. 27: Tuesday Tips: Watch and learn - Another quick tip, which relates to all social media platforms, is sometimes to sit back, watch and learn how the platforms work and what engages people the most. Sometimes watching and learning is your best bet to learn as you go.
Tuesday Tips: Facebook
Wednesday Words: All
Wednesday Words: Google+
Wednesday Words: Twitter
Thursday Tutorials: Facebook
Other Posts

Thanks for reading!  Posts will continue to roll out this month and on-going.  Please leave any comments, questions, etc. in the comment section below!

Thursday, February 5, 2015

Thursday Tutorial: How to Audit Your Facebook Page

In this week's Tuesday Tips, we advised readers to routinely audit their Facebook page and promised that we would show them how to do this in this week's Thursday Tutorial.  Well it's Thursday, so here's the tutorial!

To update/change your profile or cover image, see these tutorials:

There are several places you should verify data and settings at.  The first place is your About page.

The first is to visit your About tab on your page.  To do this, load the page you want to audit.



Then click on the About tab.  That will load a page similar to this:


As you can see, some areas are active links to click on to update.  Other areas, if you mouse over them, an edit button will appear on the right hand side.  If you click that, you can update the info for that area.

The next place to audit is your settings tab, which is located at the very top of your page.  Click on settings, then review the settings for the "General," "Page Roles," "Suggested Edits," and "Features" tabs.

When you are doing your audit, it is a good time to check your admins (which is the Page Roles tab) to make sure people who should have access do and those who should not, do not.

Audits shouldn't take long to do but are a good way to make sure your page is current and stays that way.

Thursday Tutorials are a series of tutorials designed to help people who may not be as Facebook savvy as other people. Some tutorials will be targeted towards newbies to the social media world, others will include tutorials for more advanced users. Thursday Tutorials are written for the layman and are designed with everyone in mind. You can find all the Thursday Tutorials by clicking on the Thursday Tutorials tag below.

Thursday, January 29, 2015

Thursday Tutorials: Changing Order of Tabs on Your Facebook Page

One of the most common questions I get for clients is "Can we change the order of tabs/apps on my Facebook page?"  The answer is "Yes.  Absolutely."  

Much like last week's tutorial, Changing the Order of Sections on Your Page's Timeline, this week's tutorial shows it is pretty easy to make changes to your page yourself.

Click on the "More" Button in your Tabs area.  This should open up a drop down menu that looks similar to this:

Click on Manage Tabs.

This will open up a pop-up menu similar to last week's window, but with your tabs instead of your sidebar.

Drag and drop them into whatever order you want them to appear in, as seen below:

Click Save.  Just like last week, it will force the page to reload and you'll see the tabs reordered, just like below:

It's that easy. 

Thursday Tutorials are a series of tutorials designed to help people who may not be as Facebook savvy as other people. Some tutorials will be targeted towards newbies to the social media world, others will include tutorials for more advanced users. Thursday Tutorials are written for the layman and are designed with everyone in mind. You can find all the Thursday Tutorials by clicking on the Thursday Tutorials tag below.

Thursday, January 22, 2015

Thursday Tutorial: Changing the Order of Sections on Your Page's Timeline

Have you ever wanted to change the layout of your page, but wasn't sure how to? Perhaps you weren't sure what you could change about your page. Today we'll talk about changing the order of the sections on the left column of your page - which is extremely simple to do.

To start, load the page you want to re-arrange the sections on. Mouse over the title of any of the sections. On the right hand side a pencil (editing) icon should appear. If you mouse over that it will say "Manage" as seen in the image below.


When you click on "Manage" the pop-up window will appear, as seen below. If you have Javascript or pop-ups turned off, you may wish to temporarily turn these on while editing the page.


From here, it is as simple as dragging the bars into whatever order you want to drag them. Note: You cannot move People or About. Those are locked in place by Facebook. but the other ones are moveable by you. Once you have them moved to where you want them, click save.


Once moved and saved, the popup will disappear and the page will automatically refresh. your changes should be visible in the refreshed window, like mine is below.


It's that easy. Check it out on your page and figure out where you want things to appear when your viewers use your page.

Enjoy!

Thursday Tutorials are a series of tutorials designed to help people who may not be as Facebook savvy as other people. Some tutorials will be targeted towards newbies to the social media world, others will include tutorials for more advanced users. Thursday Tutorials are written for the layman and are designed with everyone in mind. You can find all the Thursday Tutorials by clicking on the Thursday Tutorials tag below.