The Degree of Difficulty: for the first two, Easy. And those tasks, about posting photos to a Fan page, ahem, took hours. So Bransford increases the difficulty degree? He's an advanced tech-y also. That's okay. Although I'll likely require hundreds of millions of yards of time/leeway.
Facebook for Authors
Optimize Your Blog or Website for the New "Like" Button
I don't know how you spent your weekend, but I went through and adjusted all of my Facebook "Like" buttons on my blog and added Facebook meta tags for optimal sharing. Yeah, it was pretty rock and roll.
Facebook recently introduced a new version of Like buttons that make them more prominent in someone's News Feed.
They went from this:
To this:
They just got much more important. Now, adding Like buttons to your blog is not the easiest of endeavors by any means. It involves some coding, especially if you want to change the image and text in the share box. And if you want to give people an opportunity to comment when they "Like" the post you have to use the XFBML version of the Like buttons, which is a bit more complicated.
As I was figuring all this out, I found this post to be a really helpful resource. Please note, however, that it's geared toward WordPress blogs and if you have a Blogger-based blog like I do you'll need to find a separate post that explains how to do it. I drew upon this post for some Blogger-specific wrinkles.
But hey, after adding some code I managed to add new Like buttons and didn't even break the blog! Try them out!
Degree of Difficulty: Tricky
When to do this: Yesterday
Stick Like Buttons Everywhere
If your eyes glazed over when faced with the earlier task, never fear, there are easier things you can tackle.
For instance, it's easy to add a Like Box to your blog like this one:
Just go to this page, adjust the style according to your preferences, and then copy the code into a blog widget or post.
And when you have Pages you can put Like buttons everywhere, including posts! Creating a basic Like button is really easy. Just go tothis page, enter the URL for the page you want the button to share, adjust the style, and then voila, you have code.
Then you can put them wherever you want!
Here's a Like button for my page:
Here's a Like button for corndogs:
It gets addicting.
Degree of Difficulty: Moderate
When to do this: When you create your author page
In future posts: what to do with all these pages and Like buttons and widgets! On The Facebook!
Meanwhile, anyone have any other tips for getting yourself started?
Facebook for Authors
Optimize Your Blog or Website for the New "Like" Button
I don't know how you spent your weekend, but I went through and adjusted all of my Facebook "Like" buttons on my blog and added Facebook meta tags for optimal sharing. Yeah, it was pretty rock and roll.
Facebook recently introduced a new version of Like buttons that make them more prominent in someone's News Feed.
They went from this:
They just got much more important. Now, adding Like buttons to your blog is not the easiest of endeavors by any means. It involves some coding, especially if you want to change the image and text in the share box. And if you want to give people an opportunity to comment when they "Like" the post you have to use the XFBML version of the Like buttons, which is a bit more complicated.
As I was figuring all this out, I found this post to be a really helpful resource. Please note, however, that it's geared toward WordPress blogs and if you have a Blogger-based blog like I do you'll need to find a separate post that explains how to do it. I drew upon this post for some Blogger-specific wrinkles.
But hey, after adding some code I managed to add new Like buttons and didn't even break the blog! Try them out!
Degree of Difficulty: Tricky
When to do this: Yesterday
Stick Like Buttons Everywhere
If your eyes glazed over when faced with the earlier task, never fear, there are easier things you can tackle.
For instance, it's easy to add a Like Box to your blog like this one:
Just go to this page, adjust the style according to your preferences, and then copy the code into a blog widget or post.
And when you have Pages you can put Like buttons everywhere, including posts! Creating a basic Like button is really easy. Just go tothis page, enter the URL for the page you want the button to share, adjust the style, and then voila, you have code.
Then you can put them wherever you want!
Here's a Like button for my page:
Here's a Like button for corndogs:
It gets addicting.
Degree of Difficulty: Moderate
When to do this: When you create your author page
In future posts: what to do with all these pages and Like buttons and widgets! On The Facebook!
Meanwhile, anyone have any other tips for getting yourself started?
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