{"id":637,"date":"2010-07-05T11:33:28","date_gmt":"2010-07-05T07:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/?p=637"},"modified":"2010-07-05T11:34:30","modified_gmt":"2010-07-05T07:34:30","slug":"connect-to-the-world-with-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/connect-to-the-world-with-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"CONNECT to the world with Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Here&rsquo;s &lsquo;The Opportunity&rsquo;<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber-gear.com\/flash\/images\/are-you-on-facebook.gif\" alt=\"CONNECT to the world with Facebook\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you are an organisation looking for new business, Facebook can help you connect with existing clients and generate new sales prospects with unparalleled results.<\/p>\n<p>Consider the following stats:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Over 400 million global users are active on Facebook every month<\/li>\n<li>People spend over 500 billion minutes per month on Facebook<\/li>\n<li>More than 20 million people become fans of Pages each day<\/li>\n<li>More than 5 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) are shared each week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here is a 2 minute guide to getting started on Facebook (i.e. if you still have to do so!)<\/p>\n<p>Build a Presence \u00e2\u20ac\u201c They will come<\/p>\n<p>Connect with your audience, share your story and participate in real-time conversations quickly and easily. Facebook provides many interesting tools for you to reach and engage your audience.<\/p>\n<p>Check these out:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use Publisher to keep your users updated on new content.<\/li>\n<li>Write or import Notes (even on-the-go) and share them with your audience.<\/li>\n<li>Post Photos and Videos of your events.<\/li>\n<li>Add Applications that enhance your Page experience. <\/li>\n<li>Create Discussion Boards to solicit user feedback and generate brainstorms. <\/li>\n<li>Create Groups to help people with similar interests connect with one another<\/li>\n<li>Set up Events and have your fans RSVP<\/li>\n<li>Check out Facebook Platform to see how you can customize your presence on Facebook. More than one million websites have integrated with Facebook Platform!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The following applications and &lsquo;Plug-Ins&rsquo; help you reach out to a wider audience.<\/p>\n<p>1.\tGet instant access to your audience and their friends when you update your Page through News Feed and send targeted updates.<\/p>\n<p>2.\tImplement Facebook Connect on your site so users can log-in with their Facebook ID and can easily share and distribute their activities on your site with their Facebook friends. <\/p>\n<p>3.\tAdd Facebook Share to your site and make it easy for your audience to spread content to their friends on Facebook. <\/p>\n<p>4.\tWith Comment Box, Facebook users on your site can comment on your content, post those comments to their profiles, and share them with their friends on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>5.\tThe Like Box enables users to like your Facebook Page and view its stream directly from your website. <\/p>\n<p>6.\tPromote your Facebook page on your site or through customer emails with our &#8220;Find us on Facebook&#8221; Badge.<\/p>\n<p>7.\tBuild a mobile interface. There are more than 200 mobile operators in 60 countries working to deploy and promote Facebook mobile products.<\/p>\n<p>Send your comments\/questions to <a href=\"mailto:sharad@cyber-gear.com\">sharad@cyber-gear.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  For more articles, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharadagarwal.com\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"www.sharadagarwal.com\">www.sharadagarwal.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&rsquo;s &lsquo;The Opportunity&rsquo; If you are an organisation looking for new business, Facebook can help you connect with existing clients and generate new sales prospects with unparalleled results. Consider the following stats: Over 400 million global users are active on Facebook every month People spend over 500 billion minutes per month on Facebook More than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}