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fix your facebook profile now : [chrisbrogan.com] a conversation with a community about digital relationships login xhtml [chrisbrogan.com] home about rockstars speaking subscribe subscribe rss/xml chris brogan is a social media and social networks expert, dedicated to show businesses, organizations, and individuals how to build relationships using these tools. contact me blog at chrisbrogan.com 631-612-8945 aim: cbrogandotcom recent stuff why i love gary commute as podcamp evolves cowgirl 400 bucks can change the world moving on help amanda gravel ikea hell hello from travel bye vegas reading list never miss a post! enter your email (never spam):delivered by feedburner lijit search upcoming.org events more of chrisbrogan's events categories announcement article off-topic podcast promotion uncategorized videoblog archives november 2007 october 2007 september 2007 august 2007 july 2007 june 2007 may 2007 april 2007 march 2007 february 2007 january 2007 december 2006 november 2006 october 2006 september 2006 august 2006 july 2006 june 2006 may 2006 april 2006 march 2006 february 2006 january 2006 december 2005 october 2005 september 2005 august 2005 july 2005 june 2005 may 2005 april 2005 march 2005 february 2005 january 2005 december 2004 november 2004 october 2004 september 2004 august 2004 july 2004 june 2004 may 2004 april 2004 march 2004 admin login wordpress xhtml sep 13 fix your facebook profile now filed under article unless you’ve decided to make facebook your home entirely, where you want everyone to go and find you, the only place that people can have a meaningful conversation, i recommend you swing by your profile and give it a hard look-see from the perspective of someone who wants to know more about your social media presence. you might discover what i did: that many people have turned facebook into a cul de sac instead of a expressway. make sure you have a picture every time i see a ? for your face, i think that you’re probably not there, so i shouldn’t engage you. take the 30 seconds it might take to find a reasonable picture of you. oh, and a note: don’t use those weird professional shots if you can help it. just use something that shows me who you are. save your pro pic for your official bio. make information the top facebook allows you to shift around various elements of your profile. make sure your information about you module is as high up as it can be, and make sure that has at least your website url links, and hopefully also an email address (maybe even a phone number). if blogging, install blog friends use the blog friends application to draw attention to your blog and blogs of your friends (upon inviting other friends to use the app, of course). this draws even more eyes and attention to your media. i hadn’t thought much about this until steve rubel dropped me a message in facebook and said he hadn’t seen my blog before until he discovered it through facebook. make the wall the top comment app sure, you like the fun wall, super wall, monkey wall whatever. but the minute i try to comment and it says, “install the app yourself,” i cancel out of the thing altogether. i don’t want another wall. i like the built in one. what that means to you is that if other people are doing what i’m doing, you’re missing comments. why would you want to miss conversations? pick apps that enrich your message this is how i use it, but not how you have to use it. in my case, i use blog friends, google reader shared items and flickr to give people a sense of what matters to me. this encourages potential conversations, and gives them a sense of what interests you. your choice of groups also does this, should you belong to any groups. (by the way, i’ve learned that leaving groups often prompts messages by people who see it in their news feed. so, if you quit your friend’s group, be ready for the email.) why this matters facebook is a channel to build conversations, enhance relationships, and connect with people and their interests. it’s a rich exchange (or can be) of likes and interests that promotes further conversations. but if you’re looking to engage people in ways other than on facebook, you have to make sure people know how to reach out to you. if you’re promoting your other activities, make sure people can find them. it doesn’t take a lot of effort to think about this, but you should give it as much time as you want people to take you seriously. what about you? how are you using your profile? what would your facebook profile tell me about you? and if you’re enjoying this blog, please consider subscribing for free. photo credit roadside pictures article, communication, community, facebook, social, socialmedia, socialnetworks article, communication, community, facebook, social, socialmedia, socialnetworkssocial bookmarking comments 22 responses to “fix your facebook profile now” marti on september 13th, 2007 8:13 am i saw a couple of guys debating on cable news yesterday about facebook opening up their profiles to google search. one was all up in arms about it and it struck me as terribly odd to be on a social network and not want to be social - lol thanks for the great tips - hope you have a wonderful day! connie reece on september 13th, 2007 8:39 am chris, under your privacy settings, you can turn off certain news feed items — including leave group. that way you can tiptoe out quietly. :) give your facebook profile a checkup on september 13th, 2007 8:46 am […] brogan has some good basic tips for auditing and tweaking your own profile in fix your facebook profile now. filed under social media by […] stephen collins on september 13th, 2007 8:50 am a great piece of advice for us professional users of facebook. nice work, chris. chris webb on september 13th, 2007 8:50 am thanks for a little guidance on this. i see so many people just sort of wondering aimlessly around facebook… jon in michigan on september 13th, 2007 8:52 am ha! facebook suspended me for not using my real name. the only reason they noticed was because i asked a question in their help section. i should tell them my real name is chris brogan. :) connie bensen on september 13th, 2007 9:00 am great points chris! thanks for pointing out that i should update my profile, now if i can get facebook convinced to take my changes! grrr i tried to update last night & it wouldn’t. scoble pointed out that their interface isn’t intuitive. here are some great tips that i plan to blog with screenshots on to do it for my readers at http://www.digiscrapinfo.com/wordpress/ jason preston started with his ideas & i added some specifics. http://webcommunityforum.com/2007/09/collapsing-and-re-organizing-your-facebook-profile/ chrisbrogan on september 13th, 2007 9:48 am wow! that connie bensen. she’s got some great stuff to share. she launched her own blog by the way recently at conniebensen.com. swing by and see it. thanks for the tip, connie reece. you’ve just doome about 20 groups. : ) and i’m curious how you use your profiles. what are you doing on facebook? besides scrabulous. connie reece on september 13th, 2007 10:02 am chris, i have added the profile web address app, which adds my name to the url rather than an id number. now you can link directly to my facebook profile at http://profile.to/conniereece i’ve also added the my card app, which lets me create a business card and attach it to messages i send inside facebook. i use the drop-and-drag feature to rearrange my profile layout so that the most important items i want people to see are “above the fold” (in print terms). i update my status several times a day, and i subscribe to the rss feed for all my friends’ status updates. that allows me to keep up with them and sometimes prompts me to pay a visit to their fb site and comment. and now — shameless self-promotion here — for more information you’ll have to attend my “making connections” session at blogorlando. (http://blogorlando.com/sessions/index.php#reece) after the conference i’ll send you a link with my session pdf so you can share with your readers. mark on september 13th, 2007 10:26 am the one thing i wish facebook would fix is the way these “applications” get spread. i don’t want fun wall or superwall or any other kind of wall other than the one that comes by default and, yet, i am constantly pestered by my friends (who probably don’t know that this is happening, or how to prevent it) trying to enrol me in the apps. facebook: please please please keep it simple and elegant - it’s what brought millions of people to you. connie reece on september 13th, 2007 10:32 am mark, i agree about the annoyance of the way fb apps are spread. one thing i do whenever adding any app and the list of all my friends pops up — i immediately click on select none so that i don’t accidentally spam all my friends. sometimes it’s easy to continue adding the app without inviting any friends; sometimes not. i think it has to do with the way the developer, not fb, sets up the app. jof arnold on september 13th, 2007 10:34 am thanks for the second mention of blog friends, chris - glad you’re still enjoying our app ;) in case anyone reading this is having problems installing blog friends and/or changing settings, it’s due to facebook: they broke “fake ajax” last night during a routine update. :os we’re trying some work-arounds, but hope they’ll fix it soon; in the meantime, feel free to check the blog friends facebook forum for developments. jof arnold (blog friends) chris hambly on september 13th, 2007 11:31 am phewwwww no fixes to make, we are on the same page… i think, check for me? http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=517858845 rachel luxemburg on september 13th, 2007 11:41 am nice advice, chris. the only thing i hadn’t already done was to add blog friends. jane quigley on september 13th, 2007 12:13 pm i’m always adjusting my profile - i do think i have too much on it and need to condense. @conniereece - tnx for the hints. i’m going to add those today (while editing others…) neenz: "infinity pro" on september 13th, 2007 1:54 pm either i’m becoming much more aware of maximizing the different sns or you’re reading my mind! worked on the facebook profile well ahead of the others. aloha. neenz. kamilah on september 13th, 2007 5:49 pm i thought i was the only one who found multiple walls with the non-facebook wall on top annoying! links for 2007-09-14 on september 14th, 2007 1:37 am […] fix your facebook profile now : [chrisbrogan.com] some good basic tips on how make sure your facebook profile is presenting and networking you well. (tags: facebook profile socialmedia socialnetworks) […] lester on september 15th, 2007 10:49 am hey how come my applications on facebook dont work. the only thing that shows is my wall mari smith on september 16th, 2007 12:00 am excellent points you make, chris. halleluiah!! if someone’s profile page takes too long to load due to a ton of frivolous apps with images etc… i’m afraid i have to *next* them. i liked your point about the more natural profile pic too… mine is the prof headshot… i’m off to dig up something different. ;) to give people a better sense of my interests/focus, i’ve joined a ton of different groups - they’re more like some kind of identity badge than places with tons of interaction. (for more on this, see the group “psychology of facebook with dr. bj fogg”). i also like to strategically pick books for the books iread app to show my interests… and, for the most part, my status updates are strategic too. cheers, mari (feel free to friend me: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=566610867) marshal sandler on september 16th, 2007 11:32 am chris , i think face book bio pages need an index ! i am ok with corrections , and find my bio page is overloaded [ my fault] ! the bio could be set up like a blog roll each app having a link to it,s page ! most of their apps i find useless but then i am 71 years old and can critsize with gusto ! words without order become semantic jazz ! for the socialset of the net. » social network rule 104 : let your friends do all the talking, then take the credit on september 16th, 2007 12:34 pm […] , removing all those terrible drunken party pictures ( or not ) and take chris brogans advice on fix your facebook now. did i take the advice, well kinda but trust me i will , honestly i am going to update it real soon […] leave a reply name (required) email address(required) website notify me of followup comments via e-mail creative commons 3.0 attribution / non commercial / share-alike 2007 [chrisbrogan.com] • using nightlife theme created by performancing

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