Fortunately, one of the things Facebook excels at is letting you exchange documents painlessly and privately. Note: Privacy, of course, is relative. No free site will ever guard your data as carefully as you would. And the built-in Links application lets you share just about anything else, from audio and video clips to files and documents stored on the Web.
The files you upload have to be in one of these three Internet-friendly formats:. On Facebook, you organize your picture files by grouping them into albums. You can limit access to each album so that only certain team members can see it, and you can even tag individual pictures within the album.
Tagging is a way of associating one or more team members with the picture, which is useful for establishing and tracking accountability. For example, you can tag a picture of a features list so that each list item is associated with the person responsible for developing it.
In addition to your profile picture, Facebook lets you add pictures to groups, events, and notes. On the left side of your Home page, click the Photos link. To get to your home page, click Home at the top of any Facebook screen. On the Photos page that appears, click the Upload Photos button. Whatever you type in for the Album Name, Location, and Description fields will be visible to everyone who can see your album, so keep it professional.
This plug-in option appears automatically and is the right option for you unless the photos you want to upload happen to be. Doing Business on Facebook: The Mini Missing Manual 29 Note: Depending on how you have your computer set up, the first time you upload photos Facebook may ask your permission to install the plug-in it needs to work its magic called the Active X Control.
Happily, Facebook offers a separate plug-in that lets you send images from iPhoto right to Facebook.
Tell Facebook which image files you want to upload. The picture files you choose need to weigh in at less than 5 megabytes each. The Upload Photos page you see depends on the uploader you chose in step 4.
If you went with the plug-in photo upload tool, you can click to browse your computer for picture files and select a bunch of them at once. If you chose the Simple Uploader, the page lets you browse your computer and select files one at a time. After you choose the files you want to upload, click either the Upload or Upload Photos button.
If you need to share more, no problem: Simply create another album. Chances are you want to sort through your photos, add a few captions, and make a few other changes before you let folks peek at your album, so click Skip and then make the adjustments you want, as explained in the next section. Editing Your Album After you create an album, you can change practically anything about it.
First, head to the My Uploads page: On the left side of your Home page, click the Photos link, and then click the My Uploads link that appears below it. From there, find the album you want to edit and click the Edit Album link below it. Click the Add More tab and then, on the Upload Photos page that appears, follow the same steps you used to upload your first batch of picture files explained in the last section.
Then head to the bottom of the page and click the Save Changes button. Tip: To delete a whole album, click the Delete tab on the main Edit Album page. Click the Organize tab and, on the page that appears, either drag the pictures into the order you want them, or click the Reverse Order button which moves pictures A, B, and C so C shows up first, then B, then A. When you finish, click the Save Changes button. On the Edit Photos tab, head to a picture and type your text into the Caption field.
Note: Your caption text pops up when people mouse over a picture in your album. Click the Edit Info tab, make your changes, and then click Save Changes. Click the Edit Info tab and then click the Publish button to let folks see the results of your handiwork. Restricting Access to Your Albums Facebook gives you pretty tight control over who can see your albums. Clicking this option lets you specify particular friends or networks you want to see your album.
In this case, you can either grant viewing access to individual email addresses or a specific friend list. Every time someone looks at your photo album, he sees a list of all the people tagged in that album. Mouse over the picture you want to tag. Your cursor turns into crosshairs. When your cursor is right over the spot you want to tag, click.
Facebook draws a white square on the picture and pops up a box you can use to associate that section of the picture with yourself or anyone on your friend list. To do so: On the left side of your Home page, click the Photos link, and then click the My Uploads link that appears below it. Scroll down and click the album that contains the picture you want to tag, and then click a specific photo. Click it, and then follow step 3 above.
Depending on your privacy settings, the items you post appear in your News Feed as well as on your wall. From your Profile page, click the Wall tab. Tell Facebook where to find the link or other item you want to share.
In addition to links, you can also share photos, events, music clips, and video clips, although you might have to click More to see all the choices. In the fields that appear, type in the information Facebook requests. Click in the comment field at the top and type a note explaining why you want your team to see this item. From the URL you specify, Facebook automatically pulls in the title of the item, a description, and any pictures the web page contains.
Then flip through the thumbnail pictures Facebook copied from the site you linked to and either choose an image you want to appear next to your posted link or turn on the No Thumbnail checkbox. Tip: To share something only with your team members and not clutter your own wall , click the padlock icon next to the Share button and choose Customize, then—from the Make Visible drop-down list—choose Specific People. Click Share. The item appears on your wall unless you clicked the Options link and told Facebook otherwise.
Keeping Up-to-Date with Feeds One of the best arguments for using Facebook on the job is notifications, messages telling you that something involving you happened on the site. For example, when one of your team members updates a report, you get a notification; when another one weighs in on a discussion, you get a notification, and so on. And you can customize these automated messages to an amazing degree. To change your settings, at the top right of any Facebook page, click Account, then Privacy Settings.
Finally, to ensure consistent notifications among team members, tell your team members how to adjust their settings. Tell Facebook which team members you want to keep the closest eye on. Facebook has the last word on which stories newsy tidbits appear in the News Feed section of your Home page, but you can influence its selections. Then scroll down to the bottom of the feed and click the Edit Options link.
Tell Facebook which activities involving you you want to be notified about. Facebook can keep track of just about anything anybody does on the site that involves you. At the top of any Facebook page, click Account, then Account Settings, and then click the Notifications tab and make any tweaks you want.
But now that the site is open to the public and has a few hundred million members, things have changed. These days, big companies with big ad budgets are placing ads on Facebook. Facebook Pages: Profiles for Bands, Brands, and More The unfortunately named Pages could the Facebook design team have possibly come up with a more generic name? Your Page automatically comes with the standard discussion board, wall, and photo album features. Pages can have an unlimited number of fans. Scroll to the bottom of any Facebook screen and click the Advertising link.
Then, near the top of the left of the Facebook Advertising page that appears, click the Pages link. Anton Spraul breaks down the ways that programmers solve problems …. Develop a winning business proposal Plan and use a repeatable proposal process Use tools and templates …. Perry, Mark J. Faruque Sarker. Power up your network applications with Python programming Key Features Master Python skills to develop powerful …. Skip to main content.
On the left side of the page that appears, click the Edit Details link. Then turn off the Enable checkboxes to the right of Event Options.
Doing so helps prevent confusion and avoid the more serious threat of breached confidentiality in cases where, for example, you want to make sure nobody uploads private company documents. To get started creating a group for your company, click the Groups link on the left side of your Home page you may need to click the More link to see it.
On the page that appears, click the Create a New Group button and fill in the info Facebook asks for. Creating and Subscribing to Notes Facebook notes are basically blog entries people can subscribe to.
You could use plain old email to send your team multimedia docu- ments like project milestones, ongoing customer service requests, or meeting minutes. Finally, on the page that appears, they need to click Subscribe Now. Brochures, diagrams, attendee lists, action items, reports, recommendations, flow charts—the list goes on and on. Fortunately, one of the things Facebook excels at is letting you exchange documents painlessly and privately.
Note: Privacy, of course, is relative. No free site will ever guard your data as carefully as you would. And the built-in Links application lets you share just about anything else, from audio and video clips to files and documents stored on the Web. The files you upload have to be in one of these three Internet-friendly formats:.
On Facebook, you organize your picture files by grouping them into albums. You can limit access to each album so that only certain team members can see it, and you can even tag individual pictures within the album.
Tagging is a way of associating one or more team members with the picture, which is useful for establishing and tracking accountability.
For example, you can tag a picture of a features list so that each list item is associated with the person responsible for developing it. In addition to your profile picture, Facebook lets you add pictures to groups, events, and notes. On the left side of your Home page, click the Photos link.
To get to your home page, click Home at the top of any Facebook screen. On the Photos page that appears, click the Upload Photos button. What- ever you type in for the Album Name, Location, and Descrip- tion fields will be visible to everyone who can see your album, so keep it professional. This plug-in option appears automatically and is the right op- tion for you unless the photos you want to upload happen to be. Happily, Facebook offers a separate plug-in that lets you send images from iPhoto right to Facebook.
Tell Facebook which image files you want to upload. The picture files you choose need to weigh in at less than 5 mega- bytes each. The Upload Photos page you see depends on the uploader you chose in step 4. If you went with the plug-in photo upload tool, you can click to browse your computer for picture files and se- lect a bunch of them at once. If you chose the Simple Uploader, the page lets you browse your computer and select files one at a time. After you choose the files you want to upload, click either the Upload or Upload Photos button.
If you need to share more, no problem: Simply create another album. Chances are you want to sort through your photos, add a few captions, and make a few other changes before you let folks peek at your album, so click Skip and then make the adjustments you want, as explained in the next section.
Editing Your Album After you create an album, you can change practically anything about it. First, head to the My Uploads page: On the left side of your Home page, click the Photos link, and then click the My Uploads link that appears below it.
From there, find the album you want to edit and click the Edit Album link below it. Click the Add More tab and then, on the Upload Photos page that appears, follow the same steps you used to upload your first batch of picture files explained in the last section. Then head to the bottom of the page and click the Save Changes button. Tip: To delete a whole album, click the Delete tab on the main Edit Album page. Click the Organize tab and, on the page that appears, either drag the pictures into the order you want them, or click the Reverse Order button which moves pictures A, B, and C so C shows up first, then B, then A.
When you finish, click the Save Changes button. On the Edit Photos tab, head to a picture and type your text into the Caption field. Note: Your caption text pops up when people mouse over a picture in your album.
Click the Edit Info tab, make your changes, and then click Save Changes. Click the Edit Info tab and then click the Publish button to let folks see the results of your handiwork. Restricting Access to Your Albums Facebook gives you pretty tight control over who can see your albums. Clicking this option lets you specify particular friends or networks you want to see your album. In this case, you can either grant viewing access to individual email addresses or a specific friend list.
Every time someone looks at your photo album, he sees a list of all the people tagged in that album. Mouse over the picture you want to tag. Your cursor turns into crosshairs.
When your cursor is right over the spot you want to tag, click. Facebook draws a white square on the picture and pops up a box you can use to associate that section of the picture with yourself or anyone on your friend list. To do so: On the left side of your Home page, click the Photos link, and then click the My Uploads link that appears below it. Scroll down and click the album that contains the picture you want to tag, and then click a specific photo. Click it, and then follow step 3 above.
Depending on your privacy settings, the items you post appear in your News Feed as well as on your wall. From your Profile page, click the Wall tab. Tell Facebook where to find the link or other item you want to share. In addition to links, you can also share photos, events, music clips, and video clips, although you might have to click More to see all the choices. In the fields that appear, type in the information Facebook requests. Click in the comment field at the top and type a note explaining why you want your team to see this item.
From the URL you specify, Facebook automatically pulls in the title of the item, a description, and any pictures the web page contains. Then flip through the thumbnail pictures Facebook copied from the site you linked to and either choose an image you want to appear next to your posted link or turn on the No Thumbnail checkbox.
Tip: To share something only with your team members and not clutter your own wall , click the padlock icon next to the Share button and choose Customize, then—from the Make Visible drop-down list—choose Specific People.
Click Share. The item appears on your wall unless you clicked the Options link and told Facebook otherwise. Keeping Up-to-Date with Feeds One of the best arguments for using Facebook on the job is notifi- cations, messages telling you that something involving you hap- pened on the site. For example, when one of your team members updates a report, you get a notification; when another one weighs in on a discussion, you get a notification, and so on. And you can cus- tomize these automated messages to an amazing degree.
To change your settings, at the top right of any Facebook page, click Account, then Privacy Settings. Finally, to ensure consistent notifications among team members, tell your team members how to adjust their settings.
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