How to Show an April Fool’s Day Message on Facebook Using FBML
Facebook has a piece of FBML code that can be used on a custom tab and will show a special message only on April Fool’s Day.
While it isn’t April Fool’s Day yet, I thought I would write about it now so you had time to prepare. ;-)
This tag is wrapped around whatever content you want to display on April Fool’s Day and will only appear on April 1st.
How to Edit and Delete a List on Facebook
Last week I wrote about a way to filter the Facebook news stream by pagesby creating lists. It isn’t an elegant solution, but since Facebook made their last round of changes their isn’t another way to do this. It’s a shame because it used to work great. I think that Facebook needs to learn that “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. And if it is broke, please listen to your users and at least attempt to fix it.
Anyway, in the comments, Ajith asked how to delete the lists that had already been created. This, too, had been moved in Facebook’s last update and the settings were not obvious.
(Anti) Social Facebook Portfolio
I’ve been writing about Facebook more than I used to and I’ve been creating custom Facebook tabs for clients.
After tediously emailing potential clients the links to Facebook pages I’ve worked on, I finally took some screenshots and made a portfolio of them using NextGen Gallery. I’m always working on other sites and rarely stop to update my own.
(Anti) Social Lists 3/14/10
This week I have passive aggressive notes from children, outlaw cookies, recession sharks, a funny video of my very own cat and more.
Have the Confidence of a 7 Year Old
Last week my daughter was in the school talent show and she sang My Favorite Things from The Sound of Music without any music.
I encouraged her to be in it because her teacher was the organizer for it but I wasn’t going to force her to if she really didn’t want to. I was surprised when she agreed and went through the tryouts and rehearsals.
It wasn’t that I expected her to quit but when things are going on in her life I often think about how I felt at the same age and use my own experiences to help me understand hers.
How to Filter the Facebook News Stream by Fan Pages
Since the last Facebook update, I have been unable to locate a simple way to filter my news stream by pages or pages that I am fan of.
This is annoying because I follow a variety of topics on Facebook and filtering news in this way was a quick way way to get information.
Earlier, I had made lists, such as Activism, WordPress and Philly. Since I already have those lists, I can filter by those topics but there isn’t a way to filter by all pages.
The best way, that I have found, to manage this is to create a list that includes all of your pages or at least the ones you are most interested in.
International Women’s Day: The Women of Congo
Today is International Women’s Day (wow, Thomson Reuters seems a bit heavy handed with their sponsorship) and in the United States March is also Women’s History Month.
There are so many issues to be covered and discussed that I didn’t know where to start.
The situation for women in the Congo has not received very much attention outside of Africa so I decided to discuss that even though it is incredibly painful to research and think about.
