One of the best social media marketing campaigns I have come across on the Internet which is for the Indian market. This is exciting as it means that social media marketing is getting it’s due recognition.

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If you spend considerable time on the Internet like me the you can leverage the tool to share interesting content on the Internet with friends, family or the whole world. In the coming days you might see suped up sharing on social media from my send courtesy Marker.

Today I was discussing creation on online video content with one of my clients for whom social media is new and believes that once you have accounts on social media sites you will start generating traffic. Many skeptics who believe that video content generation is not a sound strategy for online marketing.

YouTube’s reach

A post on Silicon Filter “ YouTube in 2011: Over 1,000,000,000,000 Playbacks, 140 Views for Every Person on Earth” gives one an idea of the penetration the content on websites like YouTube has. It also throws some light on what has been popular in 2011 as far as online video content is concerned. From the analysis one can also get ideas about generating viral video content.

What are your thoughts on the type of content that is popular as far as online video is concerned.

Applications

Involver apps integrate robust and powerful audience engagement tools to your social media streams. With over two dozen applications tailored to Facebook, Twitter and the iPhone, we offer a huge range of options for continuous two-way communication that can multiply your fan base and ensure that your brand makes the most of the incredible opportunities on the social web.

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Social Catalog

Leave a trail for your Facebook friends and the element of “I bought it” to your likes and dislikes. A wonderful new way to share the story behind actual purchasing decisions.

Shopping has always been social but social shopping is a wonderful new way to share the story behind actual purchasing decisions with network friends. The Involver Social Catalog App allows you to leave a trail for your Facebook friends and add the element of “I bought it” to your Likes and dislikes.

Turn potential to actual among your customers, and add a profound new level of engagement and understanding to your Fans’ shopping experiences.

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Basic apps are free and completely self-serve. Users are allowed any two Basic applications per Facebook account, which can be switched at any time. To use more than two applications and access additional functionality, please upgrade to the Professional level–learn about our pricing plans here.

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RSS Feed

Syndicate your blog to the news tab on your Facebook page and utilize the power of blogs and updatable content to widen your reach and encourage people to join your conversation.

Blogs can boost traffic and sales, push your site to the top of search rankings, and establish you as an expert in your industry. Now you can utilize the power of blogs and updatable content to widen your reach on Facebook, and encourage people to join your conversation with the Involver RSS App. The Involver RSS App syndicates your blog on Facebook and delivers your message directly to your Fans’ News Feeds.

Strike up conversations with your customers, publish posts automatically to your Wall without even logging into Facebook and transform your page into a lively forum where people comment, like, and share.

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Involver users at the Professional level and up get the added benefit of faster updates, greater content limits, the ability to choose their own color scheme, add a banner and custom tab at the top; comments, sharing, subscription services and being able to publish automatically or manually to their Wall. Contact us for upgrade options.

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Twitter

Stream your Twitter feed directly to Facebook and synergize these social media powerhouses with a customized look and feel that enables fans to easily see and share your feed.

Zealots often point to either Facebook or Twitter as superior, but clearly both are essential marketing tools. The Involver Twitter App enables you to synergize these two social media powerhouses by syndicating your Twitter feed directly to Facebook — and deliver it to the newsfeeds of your Fans. By leveraging the best features of both Twitter and Facebook, the App also instantly widens your audience.

Use the Twitter App to communicate more effectively with both your Twitter followers and your Facebook Fans.

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Involver users at the Professional level and up get the added benefit of faster status updates, greater content limits, the ability to choose their own color scheme, add a banner at the top, comments, sharing, subscription services and being able to publish to their Wall. Contact us for upgrade options.

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YouTube Channel

Deliver video directly to your social networks by incorporating your YouTube channel as a tab on your Facebook page.

YouTube is the preeminent online video sharing service and a powerful direct marketing tool for brands. The Involver YouTube App makes it easy to deliver video directly to your social network by incorporating your YouTube channel as a tab on your Facebook page. The YouTube App also provides an interactive forum where fans can comment, share, and subscribe to all your video content.

Bring YouTube to Facebook and expand your online audience and brand connectivity through viral video.

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Involver users at the Professional level and up get the added benefit of faster updates, greater content limits, the ability to choose their own color scheme, add a banner and custom tab at the top; comments, sharing, subscription services and being able to publish automatically or manually to their Wall. Contact us for upgrade options.

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Flickr

Bring the Flickr phenomenon to Facebook and stream your photos to your Fan Page in a format that adapts to updates and allows you to choose to distribute your entire Flickr stream or just a subset.

Flickr is the most popular photo management and sharing application in the world, which why we created the Involver Flickr App, to enable users to easily bring the Flickr phenomenon to Facebook. The Flickr App automatically streams your Flickr photos to your Fan Page as they are published and allows you to choose to distribute your entire Flickr stream or just a subset. The Flickr App adapts to changes on Facebook, so you don’t have to worry about modifying it.

Start using the Involver Flickr App today and wow your audience with timely and exciting photo updates.

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Involver users at the Professional level and up get the added benefit of faster updates, greater content limits, the ability to choose their own color scheme, add a banner and custom tab at the top; comments, sharing, subscription services and being able to publish automatically or manually to their Wall. Contact us for upgrade options.

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Photo Gallery

Showcase your photos from Flickr on Facebook in a stunning and elegant format, and do it with ease thanks to the Photo Gallery’s efficient and user-friendly interface.

A picture is worth a thousand words. But a picture on Facebook, with its audience of over 500 million, is worth even more. The Involver Photo Gallery enables you to showcase your photos in a stunning and elegant format, adding a unique and professional touch to your Facebook page. Upload the content, pull photos from your Facebook or Flickr albums, and do it with ease thanks to the Photo Gallery’s efficient and user-friendly interface.

Try the Involver Photo Gallery now and maximize the value of your photos on Facebook.

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Involver Pro users get the added benefit of higher content limits, the ability to choose your own color scheme, add a banner and custom tab, sharing, and subscription services. Contact us for upgrade options.

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Scribd

Transform stand-alone documents in a variety of formats, including PDF, XLS, DOC, PPT and more, into Facebook-hosted Web pages. Share information instantaneously with your online audience, including white papers, menus, presentations and other important materials.

The Internet has fundamentally changed the way we gather and publish information. To quickly convey details to audiences that are increasingly inclined to get their information online, Involver created a tool to transform stand-alone documents like PDFs into Facebook-hosted Web pages. Now agencies and brands can now share books, articles, white papers, menus and any other PDF documents directly with their social networks. The PDF App allows a preview of each image before publishing it as a Facebook page, where fans can interact and share.

Share information instantaneously with your online audience at the push of a button with the Involver PDF App.

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Involver users at the Professional level and up get the added benefit of faster status updates, greater content limits, the ability to choose their own color scheme and add a banner at the top, comments, sharing, subscription services and being able to publish to their Wall.

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Static HTML

This new application from Involver offers the easiest way to render HTML in a Facebook iFrame and configure your fan page in just minutes.

With Facebook’s decision to deprecate FBML and transition to iFrames, brands need a simple way to render content to their fan pages. Involver’s Static HTML For Pages application offers the easiest way for users to incorporate their chosen images and content to iFrames and render static HTML code onto fan pages in just minutes.

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Involver users at the Professional level have the ability to fully customize the look and feel of their static HTML content using CSS. Contact us for upgrade options.

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Klout Coupons

The Klout Coupons App from Involver is an innovative way to engage users while targeting your most valuable promotions to your most influential fans. Klout is the leading way to measure online influence based on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn profiles.

The Klout Coupons App is an effective means of gating your most valuable content and promotions on Facebook based on a user’s Klout score. This is the first-ever application to leverage this leading measure of online influence on the Facebook platform. This application allows you to set a threshold of influence and decide just how influential a user has to be in order to receive your most valuable offers.

Calculate a score from a user’s profile information and Facebook wall. Users with existing Klout scores, based on their Twitter of LinkedIn profiles, can combine this with their newly-derived Facebook score. —>

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Involver users at the Professional level have the ability to create unique, trackable coupon codes to restrict sharing of the most exclusive offers. Users at the Business level and above can use SML to leverage our Klout tag to gate any fan page content, opening or limiting access depending on their influence across Facebook and Twitter. Contact us for upgrade options.

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Coupons

Introduce coupons to your Facebook Wall or in a tab, drive engagement and sales, and inject a viral element to your brand’s campaign.

Coupons are a favorite with bargain-hunters, and a tried and true tool for brands to build their customer base. The Involver Coupon App brings coupons to Facebook, an exciting way to gain new Fans and reward existing ones. Add coupons to your Facebook Wall or in a tab to drive engagement and sales. Alluring, interactive and printable, coupons stand out as a token of your appreciation, and inevitably translate into awareness and loyalty for your brand.

Inject a viral element to your brand’s campaign and drive fan-growth by gating and giving access to Fans only.

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Involver users at the Professional level have the ability to create unique, trackable coupon codes to restrict sharing of the most exclusive offers. Contact us for upgrade options.

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Professional level apps require a subscription with Involver–learn about our pricing plans here. This account level also includes access to the entire Basic application set, with more advanced functionality, as well as access to Involver’s Audience Management Platform, which you can learn more about here.

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Signup

A flexible and easy to use form application that supports everything from e-mail marketing to sweepstakes. Plus, the Salesforce integration makes it easy to collect and track leads.

The Signup application is a flexible and easy to use form application that supports lead generation as well as promotional campaigns. Configuring the app takes just minutes and offers field customization to collect consumer information in a safe and reliable way. Data can be collected for download as a .csv file or pushed directly into Salesforce using any Salesforce object.

At the Business level and above it’s possible to use the Signup functionality with involver’s Social Markup Language (SML), to create fully branded form experiences.

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Poll

Engage your audience and enhance marketing research objectives with amusing polls that encourage fan response and content sharing with Facebook friends.

Polls allow brands to track fan satisfaction and preferences, and provide a channel for interaction that can lead to valuable audience insights. The Involver Poll App is simple to set up, can be hosted on a Tab and/or published to your Facebook Wall, and allows for easy and instant viral sharing. Involver Polls will enhance all your marketing objectives, from market research to your Fans’ choice of a favorite Twilight character.

Deploy polls strategically, as a fan-gated landing page, and encourage visitors to become share their thoughts.

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Welcome Tab

Make a great first impression with an attractive and easy-to-deploy branded splash page on Facebook that welcomes new visitors, builds brand loyalty and drives fans to desired destinations.

When it comes to audience building, the first three seconds on a site are critical, which is why the Involver Welcome App is a great way for brands to customize what people see when they land on their Facebook page. The Welcome App sets your brand apart and welcomes new visitors with an attractive, branded splash page that invites them to become Fans.

Utilize this page to expand your following, promote new products, call attention to deals, or direct users to your web site or other Tabs on your Facebook Page.

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Promotion Gallery

Create a gallery of Facebook pages and content (any open graph node) to cross-promote your content with like-minded brands; drive audiences across your online presence and strengthen your brand’s reputation.

Sophisticated brand marketers use cross-promotion as a way to draw new customers by promoting other products to their fan-base. Involver’s Promotion Gallery App provides a space in your Facebook Tab for links to promote additional products and services and extends the functionality of Partner Pages to Facebook.

Channel page traffic, add link backs, and make the most of these exciting new ways to partner and multiply your collective fan bases.

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Get Satisfaction

Give customers a place to ask questions, report problems, share ideas, and give praise. Lower support costs, identify customer champions, and build better customer relationships by integrating Get Satisfaction with your Facebook fan page. Note, Get Satisfaction subscription required.

Get Satisfaction is a simple way to build online communities that enable productive conversations between companies and their customers. Companies of all sizes, from P&G to Eventbrite, use this app to drive better business results through their Facebook fan page. Here’s why: this app captures and archives all fan posts in your community for faster resolution and a better customer experience. Content in the app is searchable and indexed outside of Facebook, increasing the value of this user generated content and leveraging SEO benefits. Note, a subscription with Get Satisfaction is required to use this app.

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Business level clients get the added benefit of being able to use Get Satisfaction functionality in mashup tabs to bring together the support experience with other apps such as YouTube, RSS, or Twitter. In addition, the Wall-to-GetSat functionality let’s users monitor content on their wall and respond on Facebook and Get Satisfaction simultaneously.

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Business level apps require a subscription with Involver–learn about our pricing plans here. This account level also includes all of the above apps and access to the Audience Management Platform. Apps at this level and above require a Social Markup Language (SML) license or setup fee. Learn more about SML here.

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Badges

Inject a visual and viral element to campaigns by inviting your customers to represent your brand in the choices they make.

Badges are a clear way to signify roles and allegiance to things that matter in our lives. They tell the World who we are and what we’re prepared to do about it. The Involver Badge App invites users earn a badge you created by showing their commitment to your brand.

Inject a powerful visual element to campaigns let your customers to represent your brand in the choices they make with the Involver Badge App today.

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Gifts

Share virtual gifts with friends, family, colleagues, and just about anyone in your Facebook stream at the push of a button.

There is no better way to show you care than with a gift. The Involver Gift App brings the fun, whimsical element of virtual gifts to your Facebook community. Respond in the moment with a modest token of your appreciation, from “Happy Birthday” to “Congrats” to “I really miss you…” Add a birthday alert and set up sending in advance, and don’t forget the holidays.

Spread gift-giving joy with friends, family, colleagues, and just about anyone in your Facebook stream at the push of a button with the Involver Gift App.

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Social Catalog

Leave a trail for your Facebook friends and the element of “I bought it” to your likes and dislikes. A wonderful new way to share the story behind actual purchasing decisions.

Shopping has always been social but social shopping is a wonderful new way to share the story behind actual purchasing decisions with network friends. The Involver Social Catalog App allows you to leave a trail for your Facebook friends and add the element of “I bought it” to your Likes and dislikes.

Turn potential to actual among your customers, and add a profound new level of engagement and understanding to your Fans’ shopping experiences.

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Enterprise level apps require a subscription with Involver–learn about our pricing plans here. This account level also includes all of the above apps and access to the Audience Management Platform. Apps at this level require a Social Markup Language (SML) license or setup fee. Learn more about SML here.

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Social Quiz

Use quizzes to align audience attributes and allow anyone to share their responses on their friends’ News Feeds.

Quizzes are the perfect engagement tool for jumpstarting Page growth, combining brand engagement with the ability to gather valuable data. The Involver Social Quiz App helps you align audience attributes and allows anyone to share their responses on their friends’ News Feeds.

Delight your Fans and discover new ones with a pop quiz installed on your Facebook Page courtesy of Involver.

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Contest

Celebrate your brand, inspire fans and generate video, photo and text-based content with the Involver Contest App.

Contests are a powerful way to multiply brand awareness by showcasing a multitude of user experiences. Involver’s Contest App includes video, photo and text options and makes it easy for brands to inspire Fans and gather authentic content that promotes their product across a range of media. A clear simple interface allows you to post guidelines and our Audience Management Platform makes it simple to track entries and post them as they come in then designate winners.

Celebrate your brand and leverage your fan base in three different ways with the Involver Contest App.

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Music Player

Insert unlimited music tracks to your Facebook profile and allow your fans to share them to their followers’ and friends’ News Feeds.

The ability to share and promote music is one the most transformative aspects of the Internet and a critical driver for fan-building on Facebook. Involver’s Music Player App enables users to implement a robust music interface to their Facebook Pages. Add unlimited new tracks to your profile and allow your Fans to share them to their followers’ and friends’ News Feeds. The Music Player App makes it simple to stream playlists, add tour dates, and compile discographies.

Add the Involver Music Player App today to provide a truly immersive experience for your Fans.

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Flash Embed

Put Flash capability on your Facebook page and turn it into a richer, more immersive showcase for all your media content.

Flash delivers an unparalleled viewing experience for animation, video, and interactive web elements. It can enliven your Facebook Page and allow for a richer, more immersive viewing experience. Involver’s Flash Embed App makes it simple to integrate your existing Flash files on Facebook in one simple step, without ever having to think about it again.

Install this app now and turn Facebook into a dynamic, compelling showcase for all your media content.

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Hybrid Applications

Combine the functionality of two or more Involver Apps on a single tab to create your own unique form of audience engagement. This application is only available to Involver Premium users.

As powerful as our Apps can be, sometimes one is not enough, which is why the Involver Hybrid App allows you to combine the functionality of two or more Involver apps on a single tab. Add video functionality to stories, a badge for contest winners, and numerous other combinations. “”Mash up” your favorite Involver-powered apps to ensure a content combination that is right for your campaign.

Build your own unique format for audience engagement with the Involver Hybrid App. This application is only available to Involver Premium users.

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Custom Tab

If you’re comfortable with simple HTML, use this app to take complete control over the look and feel of your content.

One of the early building blocks of the web, HTML continues to power a majority of web pages, and remains the default mode for numerous brands. If you’re comfortable with simple HTML, and want to quickly add content to Facebook, the Involver Custom App allows you complete control over the look and feel of your content and greater brand consistency across your web and social media streams.

If HTML is still your go to system, but you also use Facebook, our Custom Tab Appwill get you the exact look and feel you want with a minimum of fuss. This application is only available to Involver Premium users.

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GetSatisfaction Support Tab

Get the most from Facebook conversations between your customers and generate a public storehouse of actionable social data from the questions, feedback, concerns, and praise that arises from your fan base. This application is only available to Involver Premium users.

GetSatisfaction is a powerful tool that gathers Fan Page discussions to a central platform to be used and responded to on behalf our your customers. Now you can engage with the questions, feedback, concerns, and praise that arise from your fan base thanks to a special partnership between Involver and GetSatisfaction. The Involver GetSatisfaction support tab ensures you won’t miss out on crucial feedback to enhance product development, relationship marketing, brand management, public relations, and customer service goals.

Get the most from the conversations between your customers and generate a public storehouse of actionable social data by deploying this powerful app. This application is only available to Involver Premium users.

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Stories

Encourage users to share their stories with the World on their Facebook page and interact with others who’ve done the same.

When Facebook announced its Stories feature to enable 500 million users to share their stories with the World, they asked Involver to customize its Stories App for them. Now you can follow Facebook and invite your own Fan base to connect with one another by sharing their stories and commenting on those of others. The Involver Stories App makes it easy for users share their stories on their Facebook Page and interact with others who’ve done the same.

Share your inspiration with the World and in turn be inspired when you use Involver’s Story app.

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Leaderboard

Track Facebook Fan support, growth and rankings, and provide a place for supporters to Like their favorite teams and display their banners or national flags.

Sports fans love to track their favorite teams and share their passions with fellow fans online, which is why Involver’s Leaderboard App on Facebook is such a massive success with national and world sporting events like the 2010 World Cup. The Involver Leaderboard displays teams with their banners or national flags, the number of Internet users in a category, and the number of likes each team has on Facebook, as Fans support their favorite teams.

Bring the thrill of competition to your social network with the Involver Leaderboard.

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Ratings & Reviews

Get reliable input from your Facebook community at the point-of-purchase with the Ratings & Recommendations App. Note, Bazaarvoice subscription required.

When it comes to purchasing decisions, reliable input from real people is extremely valuable though not always readily available. The Ratings & Reviews Application provides access to conversations around point-of-purchase to ensure your purchasers make informed decisions.

Arm your shoppers with trusted info from friends and followers with the Ratings & Recommendations App.

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Involver the facebook specialists have apps which can add a lot of glitz and content to your Facebook pages.

There are different plans offered by involver and the basic plan is free. The free plan is sufficient for individuals and small businesses and I do not see a reason why an enterprise customer would not subscribe to the premium plans.

Since the acceptance of email as a mode of communication personal email signatures have been in demand. With the growth of social media the demand for unique personal signatures has sky rocketed as unique branding is something every account on social network is aspiring for. Unfortunately there are not many options available.

What is My Live Signature

My Live Singature is a free personal signature service that allows you to create customized personal signatures. You can create a signature by

You can use the wizard to create your signature

You can draw your own signature

You can upload a scanned image of your signature.

Based on the option you exercise a unique personal signature is created for you which is hosted on the My Live Signature

How to use My Live Signature

There are two ways to use the signature you have created and they are

You can download an image of the signature that you have created.

You can generate HTML code which can be added to wherever you want to include the signature.

An animated unique personal signature

You also have the option of using a Personal animated signature but this is available in the paid version of My Live Signature. You can also order some signature art products that are available (though I did not find information on the type of art products that are being offered).

Here is a personal signature of mine that I created.
Best regards,

A specimen of my signature

On the whole it is an interesting service which can be used to create unique branding of yourself or your business as they say an image is worth a thousand words.

With social networks mushrooming your profile picture is the first impression you make on people whom you have not met personally or rarely meet. Therefore it is important to have a perfect profile picture. Ideally you should get a good camera to create a profile picture though most of the high end phones have excellent cameras these days. If you do not believe a phone camera can do the job check the photos on the Hipstamatic group on Flickr.

Rules to follow while taking profile pictures

Close up shots should be preferred.

Smiling shots are always better (check the slideshow above for some unfriendly profile photos.

If you are thinking about using a illustration ensure that is done by a professional and or you should be very good with one of the vector drawing software. Cartoons is a big no no. Very few people are able to get away with cartoon type illustrations without be chided.

Shoot multiple photos at different angles.

Use photo editing software like Photoshop but keep the usage to a bare minimum. There is an interesting video on youtube about creating and using photo editing software for profile pictures.

Do you have a good profile picture? Please share it in the comments below.

With competition a reality now the engineers at Facebook have been very busy rolling out updates in the last few days.

Major changes at Facebook in 2011

Some of the major changes are

Adding the subscribe button to all the profiles. Users can now subscribe to other Facebook users public feed without knowing them. This seems cool and would have bearing on how SEO is practiced on Facebook. Read more about the subscribe feature and a getting started guide

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View Shares

allows the original poster to Facebook to see how many people have shared or reposted the message. Read more about it here.

Get a Vanity (customized) URL without having 25 likes. Read more about this here. However, I feel that are Facebook fanpages now worth it. PC magazine has a good post debating the same.

Design changes have been made to the Navigation Bar. The navigation bar is frozen even if you scroll to the bottom of the page. Does it remind of you of another social application which was launched recently? ;=). Read more about it here.

Less noise in your inbox. Facebook is testing a new email notification system where summary of the activity would be sent to the user instead of sending notifications for different events.
http://www.insidefacebook.com/2011/09/12/summary-email-notifications/
title=”new email notification system being tested on Facebook” target=”_blank”>Read more

about the new email notification testing.

Facebook has changed Friend’s lists as well allowing you to lump your friends into groups. For full details go the post on the facebook blog

I have highlighted the major changes made in Facebook. There are more details to it. To read more about the changes please see this

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Please share your thoughts on what you think about the changes and specially their effect on SEO best practices and Facebook marketing.

Here are some explanations of tools on how to find them quoted from outside articles:By Contentious

• Twitter Search is the easiest way to track hastags. Tagref is a searchable glossary of hashtags that gets built directly via Twitter. To add a hashtag to this glossary, send a tweet to @tagref Twitter account in this format: @tagref #hashtag is definition.

By Search Engine Journal

• Twemes.com is another useful resource for discovering new hashtags and tracking those you are interested in. It has a hashtag cloud and also offers RSS subscription to any hashtag stream.

By Mashable

• What the Trend?: This useful little service makes it really easy to learn about trending hashtags. When something starts trending, What the Trend? will provide a quick blurb on what’s going on.
• Twubs: Twubs, uses a wiki system to help disseminate information on a hashtag. It aggregates tweets and imports pictures to help illuminate the topics being discussed.
• Hashtags.org: While not the best at helping you understand the meaning behind a tag, Hashtags.org is good at showing you its use over time and recent tweets, which oftentimes is enough to figure out the meaning behind the tag. It provides graphs and hour-by-hour information on top hashtags.
• If you’re trying to track tweets from a hashtag in real-time, Monitter and Twitterfall are good choices. If you need to track a less popular Twitter hashtag, try setting up a Twilert to get a daily email of the use of a specific hashtag.

So there you are 10 tools to help track a hashtag:

1. Trends from your homepage
2. Twitter Search
3. Tagref
4. Twemes
5. What the Trend?
6. Twubs
7. Hashtags.org
8. Monitter
9. Twitterfall
10. Twilert

4) What types of Hashtags are Faith Based Conversations using?
I found What the Trend very helpful when looking for these.

What else do you think should be added to this list?5) Hashtag Rules:The primary one to remember: don’t overuse them. If every one of your tweets IS a hashtag, you dilute the usefulness of them by fragmenting the conversation. In addition, many people will shy away from you because it seems spammy (Mashable).

1. Try not to use them too often because this is often viewed by other followers as spam and also makes the conversation difficult to decipher.
2. (When making a new hashtag) Explain the subject matter of your hashtag in your tweets so people understand what it means.
3. Make certain the hashtag provides significance for you and your followers by using them specifically for organizing your information. (Twitter Tip Central)

I hope this helps you as you jump into the faith-based conversations on Twitter!

If you want to start using Twitter for business and you do not know what hashtags it is time you learnt about them. Head over to the link above to learn about hashtags and how to use them.

Two men have been sentenced to four years in jail for attempting to use Facebook to “organize and orchestrate” disorder.

Twenty-year-old Jordan Blackshaw and 22-year-old Perry Sutcliffe-Keenan (pictured) were sentenced at Chester Crown Court on Tuesday. The two were arrested last week following days of rioting in London and surrounding areas, beginning August 6.

According to the Guardian, Blackshaw created a Facebook event called Smash Down Northwich Town. Sutcliffe-Keenan also set up a page encouraging rioting in Warrington. Neither post appears to have resulted in an actual disturbance, however.

“The sentences passed down today recognize how technology can be abused to incite criminal activity, and send a strong message to potential troublemakers about the extent to which ordinary people value safety and order in their lives and their communities,” Assistant Chief Constable Phil Thompson warned. “Anyone who seeks to undermine that will face the full force of the law.”

Approximately 3,000 people have been arrested and 1,200 people have appeared in court for riot-related offenses thus far, says the Toronto Star. Sentences have been harsh: One Londoner was sentenced for six months for stealing a $5 case of water from a local supermarket, and a woman from Manchester who did not take part in the riots received a five-month sentence for wearing a pair of stolen shorts her roommate gave her.

On Monday, one man was arrested for planning a water gun fight on Facebook.

Last week, UK Prime Minister David Cameron alarmed free speech activists when he told Parliament that the government is examining whether it is possible to prevent suspected criminals from sending messages via social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook.

Home Secretary Theresa May and other UK officials are set to meet with representatives from Facebook and BlackBerry maker Research in Motion to discuss “whether it would be right to stop people communicating via these websites and services when we know they are plotting violence, disorder and criminality,” says Cameron. Twitter has not confirmed whether it will be joining the talks.

[via The Guardian]

For me this is first arrest that I have come across where a person has been sentenced because they used a social media website.