If you’re in a hurry, I’ll sum up my experiment with Facebook ads in the words of my brother: EPIC FAIL.
As a part in my endless experiment with the workings of the Internet, I pondered ways to increase the RSS subscribers to Consumer Whore, a little side project I have. Consumer Whore features something cool [...]
Category Archives: Facebook
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Facebook ads: my new nemesis
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SimplyRSS adds RSS imports to Facebook pages
In my “How to leverage Facebook” post I mentioned how to create a Facebook page for your newspaper. I also complained that the lack of RSS support was a problem.
SimplyRSS has solved that problem by adding page functionality, and I am currently using SimplyRSS for The Temple News. I suggest adding your paper’s [...]
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How to use Facebook to leverage your college newspaper
I know what you might be thinking: “If I hear anything more about college and Facebook I’m going to chop my ears off and go into PR.”
Reality is, Facebook is the new beer. Actually that is an understatement. I’m pretty sure that the top two things that would piss my generation off the most [...]
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Does Facebook advertising work? In a word: yes.
In launching broadandcecil.com I mulled over many forms of advertising. And then I slapped my self in the forehead and remembered we are at a college where students live on Facebook.
So we only let the outside world know about the blog by displaying it on the front page of the paper and by running [...]
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Launching TN’s first blog
At Temple-News.com we have come a long way from our humble beginnings, and this semester we finally addressed a long overdue aspect of the site: a blog.
Running on Wordpress and the fabulous PressRow, Broad and Cecil is our catch-all our blog where the staff can post on anything Temple (or Philly) related. The reason [...]