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28 Jul
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Posted by Greg Nicholl
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Bloggers and people who are hoping to promote their businesses are on the lookout for good ways to advertise. RSS Graffiti is a Facebook App that may help with some free advertisement. With RSS Graffiti you can show your blog's RSS feed on your Facebook wall. Several valuable options make RSS Graffiti a useful way to get your name out via Facebook.
Setting up RSS Graffiti was not a difficult project. You are given the option to post a micro version which is similar to a Twitter post or to use a full post which .jpg)
shows the first few lines of your blog post. Any graphic that is in the beginning of your blog post will also show in your RSS Graffiti feed. A link to your blog is posted at the end of the feed. If you have a Facebook Group you can feed your blog RSS to the Group as well as your Wall. You can feed more than one blog by using RSS Graffiti. At the current time I have two blogs set up to feed in Facebook using this App. I have them set up to feed to my Group – Illinois Valley Website Consultation, as well as my Wall. Options are available as to how often RSS Graffiti checks your RSS Feed and how soon the post will be shown on your Wall.
You may wonder if this RSS feed will work out well with our Facebook friends. People use Facebook for various reasons and some may become irritated if they think they are being given frequent advertisements. I have a lot of friends who are there mainly for political affiliation and I do not know them personally. Many of them may soon be looking for services that I offer. I doubt that many of them will mind seeing my Blog posts come down their wall. Also, given the possibility that I am offering some sort of valuable information I do not believe that many people will mind. I have not had any complaints and I prefer to believe that my posts are offering valuable free information that will help people.
The RSS Graffiti works well and I and my friends see the tasteful Blog feed posts come by as often as I post to my blog. I will recommend RSS Graffiti as a good Facebook App and I like it a lot more than the constant flood of silly, time-wasting Apps that come to me every week
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| Category: RSS Feeds | Tag: Blog, Facebook, RSS feed, RSS Grafiti |
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9 Feb
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Posted by Greg Nicholl
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Someone Important Was Hacked On Facebook
We have all heard the horror stories about Internet security lapses, hackers and the like. It appears that the CEO and founder of Facebook had his profile hacked last week. This news might be the true justification for the man I met in the store this week who claimed that he would never have a computer. Most of us will never go that far, but we are all interested in have some real assurances of security online.
Mark Zuckerberg Takes Steps to Insure Facebook Security
The weakest point of security which allows a hacker is to gain access to an account is through capturing traffic on an insecure network, like a public Wi-Fi hotspot. This means that on an open public Wi-Fi network (such as at Starbucks or other cafes). In such situations it is possible for a hacker to gain access to your data as it moves through the network. Doing things that involve passwords and credit card transactions is risky in these settings.
Facebook has introduced a new security feature that all users can access. The new feature will cause your access to Facebook to be over a secure "https" connection such as you would encounter on a secure online shopping cart (notice padlock on lower right corner). To enable this feature click on Account in the upper right corner and select Account Settings. On that page click on Account Security. The first option at the top will be Secure Browsing (https). Click that, then hit the blue Save button just below it. Now you will be using Facebook over a secure connection.
The secure "https" connection is much more secure than an ordinary connection. This is good news for Facebook members who want to use their accounts on a public, unsecured network.. The wisest course of action would be to avoid doing any credit card transactions on a public network regardless of having a secure "https" connection through the site. And it is probably not necessary to use this secure option if you are at home on your own network (the use of it may slow down your browsing experience).
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