Your Profile Page is where the important stuff happens. You’ll recall that your Home Page is where you interact with others. Your Profile Page, starting with the Wall, is where people interact with you. And there are a lot of trick actions that you can initiate on your Profile Page.
When you first get your page set up, there’ll be a couple of default Tabs: Wall, and Info. You populated the Info page when you first established your Facebook presence. You can add more data whenever you want; just click on “Edit Information” in the upper right to open the Info page for editing. Don’t forget to go to Settings to set whatever access limits you deem appropriate for Friends and visitors.
I discussed the Wall in the last post: it’s where all your visitors land. When somebody comes to visit, by default, they go to your Wall. But they aren’t limited to just your Wall and Info pages. Oh, no. See the tab with the “+”? Click on it, and you’ll see some of the fun options available for your Profile Page. My fave is Notes.
You can do goofy stuff on the Notes page. Several months ago, I posted “26 Wildly Careening Random Tidbits”, a list of things that most people don’t know about me. It was fun and got some interesting comments. But more to the point of what we’re doing here, you can pull your blog posts (yes, we’ll get to Blogs!!) into your Notes. When I post this blog to WordPress, it is imported to my Notes page, is posted as a Status Update on my minified on both my Home Page and Profile, and posts on my Friends’ news feeds (Home Page). Part of my 15 minutes of Fame, I guess. But! My Friends’ Friends could see the post on the Friends’ feed, and click on the link to read my blog post. See, the viral thing at work again. There are lots of opportunities in Facebook for this.
When you open the Notes tab, there’ll be a box to the right that reminds you that you aren’t importing a blog. If you want your blog to post to your Notes page, just follow the instructions. It seems that you can import only one blog, as these instructions don’t show up on my Notes page (inferring that they go away once used), but they are on the Notes page of Back Room Wines, as I don’t yet import Dan’s blog posts. Blogs don’t always import cleanly, as my social bookmarking string is vertical, not horizontal; who knows why that is. If you aren’t blogging yet, you can write up some interesting stuff about your winery, new wines, and similar, and post that to your Notes page. All sorts of opportunities here.
Whatever you post in Notes will be listed chronologically in the box on the right. If Friends really like your content, they are given the opportunity to subscribe to your Notes page via RSS feed.
You’ll see that there is a Photo tab in the Profile (at the “+” tab), to which you can upload photos; I surprised a lot of my Friends, who didn’t know that I motocrossed in high school, with a couple of action photos. You can create photo albums for upload, and there’s also a spot for “mobile uploads”, where photos that are uploaded from smart phones will end up. I posted several photos from the barrel auction at Auction Napa Valley this past June, which was fun. No, I don’t have money to bid on those lots; my wife and I were volunteers. There’ll also be a spot where you’ll find photos by others in which you are “tagged”. Tagging is an interesting concept in which you mention a Friend in a photo or post, and that sends the photo or post to their Page. My wife tagged me in a backyard photo, and Barry Martin tagged me in a photo taken at Back Room Wines; both are in the “Photos of John” section of my Photo page. You’ll see available tag options come up when you are uploading or posting.
By now you are getting the drift of the Profile section of your page, where you can use a number of applications to enhance your interactions with your Friends. Other available applications are Videos and Events; you can search Applications, at the bottom left of any page, to see what else might work. Some people do some pretty custom stuff, but I tend to think that the hardworking applications should be on your Fan Page.
Your Facebook Personal Home Page/Profile should be in pretty good shape now, and hopefully you’ve started to accumulate some Friends. What should we do next? Twitter, FB Fan Page, Blog? Any thoughts? Could be dangerous leaving this all up to me.
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