Jeff Korhan - New Media and Small Business Marketing Home About Me Working With Me Speaking Favorites Trends Subscribe « Facebook Applications Dashboard | Main | Stop Following Instructions and Explore » October 10, 2010 Facebook Groups Simplified Last week Facebook launched three new enhancements.  You can now Back-up Your Faceboo k Information, monitor your applications from the New Applications Dashboard , and create New Groups with enhanced functionality. Communicate to the group via a unique email. Chat with the collective group. MORE >>

about what the difference is between “community manager&# and “social media manager?&# know I am – and I am both a community manager and a social media manager! But there seems to be a lot of cofusion both on the part of employers and job candidates, and a lot of jobs that actually entail managing a company’s social media marketing efforts are being billed as community management positions. Likewise, a lot of job seekers who want to “do&# social media for a company are thinking that they want to go into community management. MORE >>

Facebook is constantly updating their settings and lately they have started focusing more and more on visual content. Facebook is overloaded with information and different types of content, so it’s important that your content is easily digestible. They have a very youthful image on Facebook and plays around with quotes and photos of bottles in unusual and unexpected places. Your wall photos will be cropped on your page if you upload photos with other dimensions than what Facebook has specified. Know your target group. Send a clear message. Keep it simple. MORE >>

We’re very excited to be kicking off a regular series of Open Community case studies, in which intrepid association blogger and freelance writer  Deirdre Reid will be digging into associations (and other kinds of organizations when relevant) who are living and breathing their open communities in the ways we describe in the book. Community: Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina. Nurture small niche groups. On their Facebook page and Twitter account they aim to increase awareness of what they’re doing and what others are doing on their behalf. MORE >>

The following post is part of the  Mindjumpers Network  series and written by our Community Manager, Sara Hansson. Mindjumpers Network is a global network of local country community managers enabling international companies to execute and maintain brand communities in a structured, quality assured and cost effective way across markets with the aim of creating effect and value. According to  the Facebook IQ 2012 report , 41% of international brands maintain at least one local country page. The Performance of 100 Icon Brands on Facebook [report]. MORE >>