New Facebook Timeline for Pages

Whether you like it or not, beginning March 30, 2012 your Facebook Page will be changed to the new Timeline layout. Are you ready?

Here are some tips to help get you started:

(download, print, read the entire PDF here)

COVER PHOTO

The new 851x315 pixel cover image will give your Brand more shouting space, but be careful about what you shout about... there are some rules....

Cover photos are 851 pixels wide and 315 pixels tall. If you upload an image that's smaller than these dimensions, it will be stretched to fit. The image you upload must be at least 399 pixels wide.


 COVER PHOTO RULES

Your Page cover photo MAY NOT include: 

A. Price or purchase information, such as “40% off” or “Download it at our website”.

B. Contact information such as a website address, email, mailing address, or information that should go in your Page’s “About” section.

C. References to Facebook features or actions, such as “Like” or “Share” or an arrow pointing from the cover photo to any of these features.

D. Calls to action, such as “Get it now” or “Tell your friends”.

Covers must not be false, deceptive or misleading, and must not infringe on third parties’ intellectual property.

PROFILE PICTURE


Page profile pictures are square and, depending on the size of someone's screen, display at 125x125 or 150x150 pixels. The photo you upload must be at least 180x180 pixels. Uploading a square image of your brand's logo is recommended. Rectangular images will be cropped to fit a square.

Page profile pictures display next to your Page's name around the site, so yours should stand on its own to represent your Page. You can also be creative with how your profile picture and cover photo go together. On your Page's cover, the profile picture displays 23 pixels from the left side and 239 pixels from the top of your cover photo.




Quick Links for more info:
Introduction 
Facebook Pages/ Explore Popular Features
Interacting with Pages
Facebook Pages Video Guide 
Pages vs Groups & my personal account
Facebook Pages community forum




Good Luck!

Mark Zuckerberg and Orrin Hatch

Mark Zuckerberg doesn't speak in public very often, in fact this is his first time on a college campus speaking to a group this large.
I am a Mark Zuckerberg fan. He is a genius.
I had to be there.

 

 The Media Frenzy



Mark joined U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch on Friday March 25th at the BYU Marriott Center to speak about Technology. Naturally, this was posted as an "event" on facebook. Guests had until Thursday to ask Mark questions on the "event wall". Over 450 questions were posted, however only a handful were answered, and brilliantly of course!

 

Some key items that stood out to me: 

- Facebook is diligent in keeping a safe environment

- "We are one of the first platforms that offers people the ability to have their facebook sessions encrypted"- which means that if you are in a public place, you can make it very difficult for people to see any of your information on facebook.

- Extra security with your information. They have invented new security measures. If you login from a different computer, you may be asked specific questions that only YOU would know. No other platform can do this.

- Mark Zuckerberg's dinner conversations with his medical student girlfriend are

1. Facebook 

2. Children and Education

Mark: "Most people have something that they're super passionate about, and I would encourage you all to just go find that thing." 
"People don't get put into roles, they create them for themselves."
Want a job at facebook? You will need passion to get in.




past blog posts:   
Are we obsessed with Facebook?    
giving your Facebook page a Makeover
ordering prints directly from Facebook 

*** VIDEOS ***

Video 1:
Microsoft and AOL wanted to hire Mark in High School. He declined and went to Harvard and built the first version of facebook when he was a sophomore.
Facebook is working toward a billion users. There are only about 2,000 employees who work at Facebook.
Senator Hatch: "Is management or marketing more important in predicting a successful business?"
Mark: Management




Video 2:
Mark: "If you don't completely love what you are doing, it actually ends up being the rational thing to stop doing it, or succumb to some of the challenges, because there will be huge challenges that you face. Any normal person would not want to go and build a company."





Video 3:
Extreme privacy controls & a safe environment
Mark: "We are really focused on children's safety at facebook and take extra precautions for them."
Facebook bought the FamilyOnlineSafetyInstitute.org
Encrypted Service






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