Facebook is in a pickle. (That's an Internet term meaning "caught between users and advertisers.") You joined Facebook because it was such an easy way to share your pro-Florida State feelings without your pro-Florida boss finding your secret. (Yes, that's code for something else.) However, Facebook needs your information to lure advertisers. The more you share - 35, Single, Impulsive Buyer -- the better they can direct ads you may fall for, er, enjoy. Now, Facebook will tell you they don't give that information to advertisers. That doesn't mean they don't aggrigate it to better deliver you those ads for dating services. In response to this delimma, Facebook recently made a mess of the privacy settings. Excuse me, they "improved user control." In this short article, I'll point you to two easily set fixes to improve your privacy. After, you'll want to spend some time reading the official Facebook explanation of privacy settings. The Gist: Most Facebook privacy options are now split to three setting Friends, Friends of Friends, Everyone. Each is less private that the one previous. However, that's just the basic options. In many cases you'll find "Custom" is available. Always take a look at that option. "Custom" often allows a much finer control over what you allow to be visible. You can block specific friends or Lists from accessing or sharing parts of your profile. Why bother making your settings more secure? Read an important pop-up from Facebook you might have missed: # Information you choose to share with Everyone is available to everyone on the internet. # When you visit a Facebook-enhanced application, it will be able to access your publicly available information, which includes Name, Profile Photo, Gender, Current City, Networks, Friend List, and Pages. This information is considered visible to Everyone. Let's fix those two privacy settings.... 1) Log into Facebook. In the top bar, next to your name, is the Settings link. Hover over it, then choose Privacy Settings from the drop-down menu. In the resulting screen choose Applications and Websites. Then look at the second option, What your friends can share about you. Click "Edit Settings". Facebook helpfully explains the reason for these options: When your friend visits a Facebook-enhanced application or website, they may want to share certain information to make the experience more social. For example, a greeting card application may use your birthday information to prompt your friend to send a card. If your friend uses an application that you do not use, you can control what types of information the application can access. Please note that applications will always be able to access your publicly available information (Name, Profile Picture, Gender, Current City, Networks, Friend List, and Pages) and information that is visible to Everyone. Uncheck what you don't want shared. Note that any applications you use will ignore these settings for your friends. Even if you disallow Friends from letting applications see your birthday, iIf you let Birthday Card Sender know your birthday, it can access the information when your friend uses it to send you a card. 2) Again, hover over the top bar Settings link, then choose Privacy Settings from the drop-down menu. This time chose the Search option This time Facebook pops up some damage control: Worried about privacy? Your information is safe. There have been misleading rumors recently about Facebook indexing all your information on Google. This is not true. Facebook created public search listings in 2007 to enable people to search for your name and see a link to your Facebook profile. Remember the other Facebook pop-up? "Information you choose to share with Everyone is available to everyone on the internet." Sounds like more than a name and a link to me. There are two Search settings. Internally on the Facebook network, or externally through Bing and Google. Under Facebook Search Results, your only options are: Friends, Friends of Friends, Everyone. If you want to make yourself easily found by other Facebook users, set to Everyone. If you're satisfied with your current 1,154 friends, then set it to Friends. The more important settings is the one below. Public Search Results (Allow search engines to access your publicly available info and any information visible to Everyone) You're either in or out with this setting. It defaults to Enabled, but if you want Facebook to be a private repository of your your love of LOL CATZ pics and Dick Chaney, then you might want to disable Search Engine Indexing. If you don't care who sees knows you collect Hello Kitty figures and AK-47s, then keep Search Engine Indexing enabled.
Regarding the Lettre ouverte à Nicolas Sarkozy Englib's Catherine Lavallee-Welch helped translate the gist of the organizations requests: The three unions ask for legislative reform to recognize the judicial independence of the front-line journalists; that government help not just the publishers or the stockholders, but they add policies that safeguard jobs and information quality; to make sure that public radio and TV receive resources to fulfill their missions; to assure French media outside the country gets what they need to fully continue their mission. Original French: Monsieur le Président, en cette journée européenne pour la défense du journalisme, les trois syndicats français membres de la FEJ vous demandent : d’accéder à leur demande d’une réforme législative qui viserait à reconnaître enfin l’indépendance juridique des équipes rédactionnelles quelles que soient la forme de presse et la taille de l’entreprise médiatique ; de veiller à ce que les aides publiques à la presse ne servent plus seulement à enrichir des actionnaires ni à regarnir provisoirement des trésoreries, mais accompagnent des politiques volontaristes privilégiant la qualité de l’information et la sauvegarde des emplois ; de garantir des ressources pérennes pour que les services publics de radio et de télévision remplissent pleinement l’intégralité de leurs missions ; de confirmer à l’audiovisuel extérieur de la France ses missions dans toute leur plénitude ou leur diversité. As I understand French, "demandent " is best translated as "ask." Catherine gave me the word by word translations and I wrote the gist as I understand the situation. Any errors in translation are therefore my fault.
@aaronjbates http://bit.ly/3OX91o good find! | Still too many on a list for me, but that's a matter of preference. #TwitterList in reply to aaronjbates # @SCMunson I'm not a programmer, but couldn't Adobe add that to AIR & make it available to all the apps? I don't see Tweetdeck, etc doing it in reply [...]
If your Twitter account is sending DM spam, take the following steps: 1) Close Tweetdeck, Seesmic, Hootsuite or any cell apps that check your Twitter account. 2) Log into Twitter directly on the Web at http://twitter.com 3) Open "Settings" (It is on the top menu.) 4) See if you have a tab labeled "Connections." If so, click it and deauthorize everything you find there. If you want, note and reauthorize later. 5) Go to the "Password" tab and change your password. Make it longer and stronger. 6) Clear your Browser cache and exit. 7) Restart the browser and log back into Twitter. Make sure you no longer have a "Connections" tab under settings. If you do, go back to step 3 and repeat. 8] If you use Tweetdeck, Hootsuite, Seesmic or other such third-party apps, you will need to give them the new password. I recommend you not do so for 24 hours. The fewer sites that have your password during this problem the better. If someone you know is sending out Twitter spam, send them to this article.
@DEADn Maybe a philosophy, but it doesn't seem to fit my definition of a religion. YMMV in reply to DEADn # @aaronjbates I have lists, but they're not public. I'm giving it a tougher test this weekend. Still wish for those missing options. in reply to aaronjbates # @askheidi I'll admit my system isn't taxed by TD, [...]
RT @lakelandlocal: "Two qualify in Yates commission race: Preston Studstill & Patrick Jones. More info to come.." # RT @sitesmith: When to Use Twitter instead of Email: http://bit.ly/2cke7J [MacWorld] # At #FSC two helicopters in air (probably TV) but construction workers have not been evacuated from building on Lake Hollingsworth Dr. & MS # Geocites will be razed [...]
Make Unlimited Free Calls on Your Cellphone with Google Voice [Lifehacker] http://ow.ly/uHSf | Works with certain plans & carriers # RT @SebastienPage: TweetDeck Adds New Notification System and New Follower Column http://tinyurl.com/yjmmgqu # @lauradavis I don't know. I think many who start wrong can find the right track. in reply to lauradavis # @jayrosen_nyu mindcasting features best utilize [...]
@Ruabel Have you looked to see if someone would like a short term commitment & take over the contract for her? in reply to Ruabel # #RTFollow @jallenbentley A man who's earned a J.D. from the #1 law school while graduating SCL has nothing helpful to give to our children? # Strong editorial from The Ledger: "Lakeland [...]
I just spied my first lkld zombie of the night. Who knew they liked the Chop Shop? The zombie,TokyoHell, says Time Warp at 7, Thriller 7:30. # Pack Smarter, Tastier Lunches for Kids (or Yourself) [Food] http://ow.ly/sh0T # Reading about body language. Now I understand why I was holding my head the way I did at a [...]
@monoyoung Your last tweet was one of the best straight lines I've ever been offered. But, I must pass. It's too late & you're too nice. in reply to monoyoung # @ruabel Parts of each state in ET or CT + some areas that didn't subscribe to Daylight Savings time. Had to be extra careful setting [...]
Silk Escape Maps Concealed in Monopoly Game Boards Helped WWII Prisoners http://bit.ly/1XV1T & http://bit.ly/N5Jg2 # @bif Address change is ok & your tech can forward old addresses. @askheidi at least one escaped into the wild. | Will Polk Voice change? # @bif @askheidi You're so sly. Using Wordpress to power your blogs. Welcome to the dark side. [...]
If you read but one review of the Beatles Remastered, read "Chuck Klosterman Repeats The Beatles." http://bit.ly/1gESMC # @PFHall Not a mistake. The Past Masters singles aren't held in wide esteem as are the original albums. Same $ at Amazon & Best Buy online. in reply to PFHall # @TamaraSakagawa You can watch the budget workshop [...]
On CNN today, there is an interview with Shel Israel, author of "Twitterville: How Businesses Can Thrive in the New Global Neighborhoods." According to CNN, "the book shows how Twitter flattens geographical boundaries and helps people connect with others around the world who share their interests." Exactly the point I make when I speak to Central Florida businesses and not-for-profit helping organizations. Not only geographical boundaries, but those artificially created boundaries we erect around race, class, and culture. Israel also makes a great point about our communication turning from the one-to-many broadcast environment to a many-to-many conversational environment. We're going [away] from the broadcast era -- that's when content is sandwiched by messages to pay for the experience, and those messages are in the form of advertising or PR or other marketing tactics. And most people don't like them anymore, and we use our Tivo and our spam filters to avoid as many of these messages as possible. Israel also speaks to those organizations rushing to ban employees from using social media: Whenever something new comes into the marketplace, there are companies that are really in love with the way it's always been done. When you start banning things, you're showing a natural distrust of your employees, which is, even in tough times, not an intelligent way to treat your employees. And the second thing is they're banishing the state-of-the-art communications tool. If you'd like to stay on the cutting edge of social media, one of those you should follow on Twitter is Shel Israel at http://twitter.com/shelIsrael.
In what turned out to be a flat day*, I spoke to the United Way of Central Florida Agency Directors' Retreat Wednesday afternoon. The topic was Social Media as it relates to not-for-profits. I won't detail the presentation here, but I promised to list some of the links I mentioned: Information site: FrogLoop.com - "A nonprofit online marketing blog" Make sure you catch the posts: 10 Things Every Nonprofit Should Know About Social Media and Online Communications and How Sticky is Facebook? Also my own 20 Thoughts on Using Twitter and Other Social Media Tools: Twitter.com Hootsuite.com - Twitter management tool for multiple users and multiple accounts Bit.ly - URL shortener that tracks clicks, traffic sources, and other data TweetDeck - A Twitter management tool that greatly improves your ability to track your organizations tweets and Twitter friends If your not-for-profit has any questions about on Twitter and Facebook or needs help getting started, please write me at : nfp (at) chuckwelch.com • * - I had two flat tires within an hour after the presentation.
Later this morning, I'm speaking to the regional Association of Fundraising Professionals. Of course, the topic is Social Media. This entry will grow after the program. I'll add information I consider relevant to the questions they have during and after. You can follow me on Twitter @chuckwelch or email me any questions AFP@chuckwelch.com.