Author: Toni

A digital content consumer with a love for social media. Also a self-confessed geek, doggies fan, Harry Potter fan, and a tourist in her own city.

Facebook Chat Heads – don’t miss a conversation

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Facebook released an update to its iPhone and iPad app last week, bringing new features to the system that will allow you to continue Facebook message conversations while still checking your News Feed or on your Profile page, all without having to switch screens.

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Turning it on
To turn it on, update your iphone or ipad to the latest 6.1.3 operating system, (Settings/Software Update), and ensure your Facebook app is updated, (App Store/updates).

When you are messaging someone, and then click away from the conversation to navigate the rest of Facebook, the ‘Head’ of the person you were having a conversation with, appears at the top of the screen. You can move it around, or remove it by dragging to the bottom of your screen.

Why do we need it?

-Saves time switching between screens
-Easier group messaging
-Easier to perform lookups ie need to lookup a Facebook event without leaving the messenger conversation? Facebook Heads will make that easier without switching screens.

Have you used Facebook Heads? What do you think?

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A sense of community – Bulldogs guest post

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The Canterbury Bankstown Bulldogs, or known as the doggies or Bulldogs to fans, is a team in the National Rugby League (NRL) Competition in Australia.

I have been a Bulldogs member for the last five years and have enjoyed the atmosphere at the home games. I first started following the Bulldogs when I was in primary school in the mid 80’s (Yes I am that old) and remember my school replacing the Austalian flag on the flag pole with the Bulldogs jersey as they had made it through to the grand final. Since that time, and because the team colours included my favourite colour blue, I have been a fan.

Chuffed to have had my post published on the Bulldogs rugby league club site.

Bulldogs fan blog 26.3.13 by Antonina Cocilovo

To Tweet or not to Tweet – Getting started on Twitter

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Want to know more about Twitter and what all the fuss is about? Best thing to do, is just sign up and listen. Or in this case, read. By reading like minded people’s tweets you will soon find out if it is something you want to add to your daily social media consumption.

Sign up here. Choose a username, this represents your Twitter Handle which is what comes after the @ symbol and what others can look up to find and follow you. Mine is @antoninac

Twitter now contains a step by step walk through to get you started. Find people to follow by typing in names of your friends, Twitter handles if you know them or even brands that you love. News channels are also great to follow as often news stories break on Twitter BEFORE the TV news programs pick them up. Following celebrities is a popular thing to do on Twitter. Justin Bieber has more than 36 million followers. If you are a Believer of the Biebe, go for it. A host of other celebrities are on Twitter and you can preview a sample of their tweets before you choose to hit the golden Follow button.

Choose a profile picture that represents you or your brand. This will appear next to all your tweets so make sure it is easy to identify and in good taste.

Once you finish step by step set up visit your feed. This lists all the posts/tweets made by the people you follow. If you would like to share one, it is called a retweet. You can do this by hitting the Reweet button:

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This automatically adds a RT at the start of your message and adds the persons Twitter handle so you are crediting that persons work. After all you can’t take credit for someone else’s tweet!

When you are ready to share a thought with the world you can post your own tweet.

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Hash tags are used to group similar tweets together by topic. Click on. Hash tag and a feed of all tweets will pop up. Add a hash tag which you can create simply by typing in #addyourtopic at the end of your tweet. Or look at trending topics on the left side bar of your Twitter page or under the ‘Discover’ section of the Twitter iphone app.