Tag Archives: Groups

Experimenting with BuddyPress for the SMUGgle Community

BuddyPress is plug-in for WordPress blogs that enables social networking. You will see some changes here on SMUG as I experiment with the BuddyPress functionality. For instance, you will now see tabs for Activity, Members, Groups and Forums. And yes, I realize that the tab structure is a little out-of-whack, but I’m working on that. [...]
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Facebook 240: 5 Steps to Customizing Your Facebook Page

In my post last Friday from the Facebook for Business seminar, I reported some recommendations from Alan De Keyrel, a friend from Rochester who was the keynote speaker. Among Alan’s suggestions was that organizations with Facebook pages should create a custom landing tab for their visitors, so that you don’t “just dump them on your [...]
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Facebook 125: Creating Community in Your Facebook Group

A Facebook group is like a garden, to borrow an analogy from Chance, the Peter Sellers character in Being There. It will not grow properly without cultivation. Because a group is so easy to create, billions have been formed. Facebook currently has 400 million active users, and the average user is a member of 13 [...]
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Facebook 104: Intro to Facebook Groups

Facebook Groups are a great way to gather people with a common interest, and have a common space for them to interact. There are three basic kinds of groups in Facebook: Open Groups – Anyone can join these, and they can form on a whim. In fact, as you are categorizing you group, one of [...]
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Yammer 107: Avoiding Yammer Email Overload

A couple of colleagues have mentioned that with the recent upgrade to Yammer they have been getting many more emails than they had previously. This post is intended to show them how to prevent the overload, and how to be sure they get the emails they want. By default, the new Yammer has you subscribe [...]
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