Tune in every Monday at 7:30pm Australian EST for our Facebook Live Mentoring Monday sessions. We cover social media topics centred around building your online reputation and brand, from organic reach on facebook to avoiding scams! Join us! Episode One: Don't be Scammed Episode Two: Legally Blindsided: Talking about defamation, copyright and reputation Episode Three: Organic is Good … [Read more...]
Scam Alert – Beware of IQ Quiz it might cost you
Beware of Facebook IQ Test Scam A few of our lovely community have let us know about a scam which is currently doing the rounds on Facebook. In this case the scam is in the form of an IQ Test which then requests your mobile number in order to send you the results. DO NOT give such quizzes your phone number. Once you give the number you have no control over what they will do with it. You … [Read more...]
Facebook viruses – stop the spread
Every so often a spate of viral videos and posts will start going around Facebook. Some of them may be relatively harmless, albeit annoying, whilst others may be infected with malware and other nasties. Often these have "clickbait" headlines to entice you ("you wont believe what she does next") or they may be sexual or graphic in nature, designed to make you curious. It's important we all … [Read more...]
Control your Facebook News Feed!
Good news for iPhone users initially, but Android and desktop to come. Last week Facebook gave back some control over who we see first in our Facebook News Feed via the Facebook app. As I mentioned, at this stage its iPhone first, but the rest wont be far behind. Your News Feed is built up as a personalised stream from the Pages and people you connect to on Facebook. The idea is that you … [Read more...]
Protecting your facebook presence
(or How not to get shutdown on Facebook) Many small business operators create a Facebook presence to help in the marketing and advertising of their business, but they often fail to seek expert advice when doing so. Unfortunately not understanding the complexity of Facebook rules has led to some businesses having their business pages shut down, or worse still even losing their personal profiles … [Read more...]
