Social Church News 003 - August 2013

Facebook. Twitter, Google Plus, LinkedIN, YouTube. Each of these social networks allow you to tag on a beautiful large cover image, you know, to personalise your account and identify yourself. The trouble is, each of them have strict graphic requirements. Think you'd be able to use the same cover image on Google Plus and Facebook?

Facebook appears to be testing a tweak of the menu that appears when users click the "liked" button on pages they have already liked, and the change affects how users choose to see content from those pages.

Maintaining a Facebook page is no game, but approaching it like one may prove helpful at times, and Facebook application creator ShortStack did just that, choosing Hasbro classic Operation. ShortStack used the body of the patient in Operation to illustrate various ways for page administrators to maintain the health of their pages.

Facebook is testing a "Find Customers" tool in its Ads Manager that allows page administrators to import their email lists from Constant Contact and MailChimp, or to upload their own .CSV files from Excel. Israel-based reader Or Fialkov discovered the Find Customers tool and shared the following descriptions of its functions and screenshots with AllFacebook.

From penning white papers to leveraging social networks, digital marketing strategies abound that can strengthen your brand or business's social clout (and Klout). In the infographic below, digital marketing agency Crawford and O'Brien illustrates 27 marketing strategies to "double traffic in under 30 days" - and while that promise may be an exaggeration, depending on your industry and the size of your audience, the tactics are definitely worth checking out.

Growing up, I was a huge fan of daytime dating talk shows. The Love Connection, The Newlywed Game, The Dating Game...you name it, I watched it. (I'm almost ashamed of this admission, but summers in Iowa were hot and I've always been a hopeless romantic.) There was one show, however, that trumped the rest.