TechTuesday #8 was a quick foray into tweaking your Facebook Fan Page to look better and be more functional! You can watch the Livestream version of the show right here (with all the Google Ads and low quality) and the show notes will follow:
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Show Notes:
To get your YouTube videos put on a tab and quickly implemented on your Fan Page go visit Involver. This is the easiest way to give your Fan Page something special without having to do much and it looks great! If you are a beginner in the online world you may want to put this one in place and let that be it.
If you are ready to take it up a level then you are going to want to go out to http://developers.facebook.com and get started on your customization. You are then going to check out the Wiki for Facebook Developers found at http://wiki.developers.facebook.com and click on FBML.
Here are the code examples from the show that you can just copy and paste:
<fb:request-form action=”http://facebook.com/QuestioningSuccess” method=”POST” invite=”true” type=”QuestioningSuccess” content=”Share QuestioningSuccess with your friends so they too can enjoy the trainings.” <fb:req-choice url=’http://www.facebook.com/login.php?api_key=<c:out value=’${apiKey}’ />’ label=’Check out this network!’ />
It really takes some testing and a couple hours to get things on your page. If you don’t have the time, hire a great professional to do it for you, someone like Jarrett Gucci with Dynasty Web Solutions, check out his Fan Page seriously his Fan Page is FANPAGEMAKER.
TechTuesday #6 “Video/Audio Quality” does it really matter? As we talk about in the show, the quality of your video and your audio can vary in huge measure depending upon your audience and your content. You can do it RAW on the fly, smooth in controlled environment or even super edited for professional results. One of the RAW type of guys that always just does it in one take is Gary Vaynerchuk or WineLibraryTV.com. He shows that as long as you are good at what you do and have passion for whatever you are speaking about IT DOESN’T REALLY MATTER!
But some of us, like to have little more polish, and this week’s TechTuesday show will give you the how’s and why’s…
Today I had some insulation put in my attic in my home. The company that came and did the work is Kelly’s Insulation and they offer a great service: add more insulation to your attic and file all the paperwork to get the rebates from the local power and gas company. Thus their service really became FREE to me, but they will be paid $922 from the utility companies and I am not out anything.
Making a SALE is great right?
Of course it is, turning that sale into MANY SALES is what makes a small business money. So I asked the nice guy, Kenny, if they had a Facebook Fan Page for their business. He said he didn’t even know. I went and looked them up and sure enough they did, I became a Fan and now I am bragging them up!!! Can people who use your business Brag You Up?
Based on the response that I have received on my Facebook post about creating my “Video Email Follow-up System” that I will be using for QuestioningSuccess (over 40 people said that they wanted to get a copy of the training) I am decided to do it as this week’s TechTuesday LIVE!
Watch the recording from Livestream here…
Or better yet become a member of the QuestioningSuccess Community and you can download the HD version of the show.
Here are the show notes:
The 10 Steps-
Record your video using a camera, webcam, FlipVideo or camcorder. (View quality samples here.)
Edit your video (or use it raw, which could be better in this case.)
Convert your video to .FLV (using a program like ffmpegX for Mac or a PC equivalent.)
Upload video to your hosting account. (I recommend using HostMonster!)
I suspect that the most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention. And especially if it’s given from the heart. When people are talking, there’s no need to do anything but receive them. Just take them in. Listen to what they’re saying. Care about it. Most times caring about it is even more important than understanding it. Most of us don’t value ourselves or our love enough to know this. It has taken me a long time to believe in the power of simply saying, “I’m so sorry,” when someone is in pain. And meaning it.
One of my patients told me that when she tried to tell her story people often interrupted to tell her that they once had something just like that happen to them. Subtly her pain became a story about themselves. Eventually she stopped talking to most people. It was just too lonely. We connect through listening. When we interrupt what someone is saying to let them know that we understand, we move the focus of attention to ourselves. When we listen, they know we care. Many people with cancer can talk about the relief of having someone just listen.
I have even learned to respond to someone crying by just listening. In the old days I used to reach for the tissues, until I realized that passing a person a tissue may be just another way to shut them down, to take them out of their experience of sadness and grief. Now I just listen. When they have cried all they need to cry, they find me there with them.
This simple thing has not been that easy to learn. It certainly went against everything I had been taught since I was very young. I thought people listened only because they were too timid to speak or did not know the answer. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well intentioned words.
- Rachel Naomi Remen. M.D.
In this new year, 2010, choose to make a daily effort to LISTEN more than you speak.
TechTuesday #3 “Google Apps: Setup, Using & Powerful Tweaks” is a perfect introduction to the world of Google Apps. If you have been considering a switch in email providers, or a resource for shared calendaring across your company, or just want a free solution for your small business to take care of all that GO FOR GOOGLE APPS! (In other words, do you want GMAIL for your own .com?)
