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Your Complete Guide to Facebook Apps

stmedia on May 14, 2014

Check out a great article featuring the best Facebook apps available. Original article posted by Panorama

One of the easiest ways to use your Facebook page to its fullest potential for social media marketing is to employ third-party Facebook applications.

Doing so makes your page significantly more appealing to your audience and improves user experience. You should also look into chances for people to be able to engage with real time messaging, as people love the ability to interact directly with someone online. This usually then translates to more visitors who interact with and share your content, which then appears in their activity streams and is more virally discoverable. Facebook page customization can dramatically increase your visibility, improve your branding, and create more leads and sales.

There are thousands of social media marketing tools for Facebook that assist brands with managing and enhancing their Facebook marketing activities. Here are 37 of the top Facebook apps on the market, ranging from design and customization to creating engagement with polls to blogging and video integration. Start using some of them to take your Facebook page to the next level!

Facebook App Suites

1. Ripe Social

Ripe Social offers 10 apps that increase brand awareness, promote client interaction, drive website traffic, cultivate repeat business, generate sales leads, and ignite viral marketing. Check out the Ripe Social blog.

2. AgoraPlus

AgoraPlus is an all-in-one platform to manage your Facebook page. Its 10 Facebook page applications give you everything you need to attract fans, engage them, and offer exclusive content on your Facebook page, mobile devices, and your own website. Check out the AgoraPlus blog.

3. Heyo

Heyo’s easy-to-use editor and templates enable you to use contests, promotions, and deals to drive traffic, leads, and sales. Drag and drop widgets make it simple to create a custom campaign from scratch without writing a single line of code, giving you complete creative control. Check out the Heyo blog.

4. North Social

North Social offers 19 Facebook applications that allow you to create great pages and fan experiences to increase engagement and promote your brand. Check out the North Social blog.

5. FanAppz

FanAppz gives you everything you need to grow, engage, learn about, and ultimately convert your social audiences into customers and turn good customers into great ones. It’s easy to turn brand assets into high-impact social experiences that leverage your fans’ “amplifier affect” and help you capture emails, likes, interests, and demographics. Check out the FanAppz blog.

Facebook Tab Apps

6. Tabfusion

Tabfusion lets you create your own custom Tab with virtually any content. Be sure to check out their numerous apps for photos, videos, blogs, and more.

7. Static HTML

Static HTML makes it easy to create powerful custom iframe tabs.

8. Tabsite

Tabsite helps you build Facebook tabs for deals, sweepstakes, reviews, contests, and more. Check out the Tabsite blog.

9. Contact Tab

Content Tab lets you easily add a tab to show your contact information and business location through Bing or Google Maps.

10. SocialAppsHQ

SocialAppsHQ offers 26 apps that are easy to set up, multilingual, and easy to set up. Check out the SocialAppsHQ blog.

Facebook E-Commerce Apps

11. LunarMods

LunarMods makes it quick, easy, and secure to embed eCommerce in your Facebook Page.

12. Ecwid

Ecwid is a shopping cart app that seamlessly integrates with your page and can be mirrored on many other sites at the same time. Check out the Ecwid blog.

Facebook Posting and Scheduling Apps

13. HootSuite

HootSuite simplifies posting and scheduling Facebook updates, adding images, monitoring feeds, and more. Teams can manage complex campaigns – including Profiles, Pages, Events, Groups, and Search. Check out the HootSuite blog.

14. Post Planner

Post Planner schedules posts, helps you find content ideas, and brand your Facebook posts across all of your pages and groups. Check out the Post Planner blog.

15. SocialOomph

SocialOomph enables you to schedule Facebook status and wall updates, group updates, and photo uploads.

16. Status Shuffle

Status Shuffle has the largest collection of Facebook status messages to choose from when you’re stuck for inspiration.

Facebook Contests and Promotions Apps

17. ShortStack

ShortStack has many features to help you get the most from your Facebook pages, including contests, polls, data collection, and analytics. Check out the ShortStack blog.

18. Top Tab

Top Tab makes it easy to create and implement an interactive contest on Facebook.

19. EazyContest

EazyContest creates photo and video contests, custom banners, buttons, CSS, custom menu tabs, custom entry forms, and reveal pages that pop. Check out the EazyContest blog.

20. SnapApp

SnapApp sets up custom branded Facebook competitions that help you improve engagement, increase conversions, and drive sales. Check out the SnapApp blog.

21. Antavo

Antavo enables you to run contests, sweepstakes, and giveaways on Facebook, the Web, and mobile devices. Check out the Antavo blog.

Facebook Blog Apps

22. NetworkedBlogs

NetworkedBlogs automatically publishes your blog posts to Facebook, so you get found and generate more traffic.

23. RSS Tab

RSS Tab lets you publish up to five different blogs on your Facebook page.

24. RSS Graffiti

RSS Graffiti automatically publishes your blog RSS feeds on your Facebook Page. Check out the RSS Graffiti blog.

Facebook Video Apps

25. YouTube for Fan Pages

YouTube for Fan Pages syncs your YouTube channel directly to a custom tab on your Facebook Fan Page so your viewers can spend more time with your brand.

26. Livestream

Livestream for Facebook enables you to add an existing Livestream channel to your Facebook Page and share a live broadcast or from their on-demand library.

Facebook Page Design and Customization Apps

27. GroSocial

GroSocial lets you start from scratch or use one of many great-looking professionally-designed templates to create Facebook tabs, timeline covers, and more. Check out the GroSocial blog.

28. SOCI

SOCI brings your Facebook page to life with branded business pages. You can craft custom timeline cover images with in-line editing, host micro websites on Facebook, and more.

29. PageModo

PageModo helps you set up a professional Facebook page for your business or organization. Customize your page with a stunning cover photo, custom welcome tab, and more in just a few minutes. Check out the PageModo blog.

Facebook Fan and Friend Apps

30. SelectrMe

SelectrMe manages your your Facebook fans and friend lists.

31. Fan of the Week

Fan of the Week enables fans to apply to become “fan of the week”. Other fans can then peer-to-peer vote for who should be selected – you can choose the winner manually or let the raw votes decide.

32. LiveChat

LiveChat helps you actively engage your Facebook fans and provide them with friendly customer support. Check out the LiveChat blog.

33. ooVoo

ooVoo facilitates video chats with up to 12 people on Facebook. You can also send video messages and record videos for your YouTube channel.

Facebook Survey and Poll Apps

34. Polldaddy

Polldaddy easily creates surveys, polls, quizzes, and rating systems. Check out the Polldaddy blog.

35. Poll

Poll creates polls for your Facebook pages and improves fan engagement.

36. Polls for Facebook

Polls for Facebook sets up polls that are multiple choice or composed of freeform questions. Check out the Polls for Facebook blog.

37. Cupli

Cupli creates standard polls and surveys, and also has functionality for private interviews and different question formats . You can target by age, gender, marital status, and education, and sort respondents into groups.
Read more: https://www.pamorama.net/2013/11/11/37-best-facebook-page-apps-marketing/#ixzz31hFufFTq

A few things you didn’t know about Google Drive

stmedia on May 12, 2014

This is a great article originally from Mashable. Easily one of my favorite sites.
Google Drive is here to make your life easy, but we’re here to make it even easier.
The multifaceted feature that allows you to create documents, photos, spreadsheets, drawings and more has boundless abilities. However, with Drive’s constant updates and added hacks, we’re only scratching the surface of what it can really do. You can learn how to improve your workflow with Google Drive, I bet you didn’t know that!

Here are eight tip and tricks to maximize your Google usage.

1. Crop photos

There are several kinds of photo cropping options in Google Drive. Aside from the typical square or rectangle, you can also crop your pics into different shapes, such as hearts and smiley faces.
Open an image, then click on it and select the Crop icon in the toolbar to mess around with the feature.

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2. Experiment with add-ons

For documents and spreadsheets, try out one of the many available add-ons. They include EasyBib (which creates a quick bibliography), Twitter curator (which lets you search and save tweets to your doc) or Translate (which translates text into other languages).
You can find add-ons in the toolbar when you open a doc or spreadsheet.

VIDEO: YOUTUBE, GOOGLE
3. Check out your Drive activity

Want to track all of the changes you or someone else has made to your Drive? Open Drive and click on the small “i” icon in the righthand corner. All of your activity will pop up.

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4. Look at your revision history

Speaking of activity, here’s a tip that’s hiding in plain sight. You can see up to 100 revisions made on any of your documents by clicking “File” and “See revision history.”

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5. Use spreadsheets offline

If you’re a spreadsheet fanatic, this feature is going to change your life. It received a number of upgrades last December, such as new functions like averageif (which gives you the average of specified cells), and unlimited cells, formulas and columns.
You can also use it without an Internet connection. Any spreadsheet you edit while you’re offline will simply update once you’re connected to the web.

VIDEO: YOUTUBE, GOOGLE
6. Shortcut to keyboard shortcuts

There are loads of keyboard shortcuts that I use all the time to make life easier. For example, “CTRL-Shift-T” to bring back a tab you accidentally close or “F11” to view your program in full screen mode. Want to know all the keyboard shortcuts for super fast access to everything? Hit “shift” and “?” and Drive will pull up a list of all keyboard shortcuts – a shortcut for your shortcuts.

IMAGE: GOOGLE
7. Customize who sees what

If you’re sharing something on Drive with someone else, you can customize the settings for what type of access each person gets. For example, you can allow or forbid someone from making comments or edits.

VIDEO: YOUTUBE, GOOGLE HELP
8. Make your email life easier

Gmail limits the size of email attachments to 25MB, but you can bypass that by sending an attachment via your Drive. When you compose an email, click on the small Drive icon, and from there pick what you want to add.
When someone sends you any attachment via email, you can save it straight to your Drive. Hover over the attachment and you’ll see the Drive icon. Click on it and place it where you like.

How to Mass Invite your Friends to a Facebook Event

stmedia on May 6, 2014

Updated June 22, 2015

It’s with a little hesitation that I put this up because it’s the #1 most annoying thing on Facebook that clogs up people’s notification boxes, but I also feel like if you have something you need to tell people it’s the most effective way to reach them outside of a text message. So here goes…
I’ve been updating this page for 3 years now and while Facebook keeps cracking down on mass invites someone always finds a way around it. The most recent (and easiest to use) mass invite tool is Facebook Invite All Google chrome plugin. Click the link below and watch the short video (also posted below) on the screen that pops up. Keep it mind that Facebook is still limiting the number of people that you can invite to an event, it hasn’t allowed me to invite over 1,200.
As usual, if you have any questions or comments post them below and I’ll try to help out.
Chrome Extension Link

Cavanaugh’s Headhouse Whiskey Passport

stmedia on April 9, 2014

Our client, Cavanaugh’s Headhouse, was trying to find a way to attract more regulars to their business. Through multiple meetings and conversations we collectively came up with the Whiskey Passport, a loyalty program that rewards customers for trying something new each time they visit. We started going back and forth with our designer on a process that seemed like an eternity but we finally nailed it and the Whiskey Passports are now safely behind the bar at Cavanuagh’s Headhouse.

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