Top Ten for 2011

It would be the end of the year without another Top Ten list. NCE Social Media is no exception.

Here are the top 10 posts from the past year.

10. Google+
9. Social Media Etiquette
8. 10 Commandments of Posting Online
7. Facebook’s EdgeRank
6. Megaphones
5. Social Media as a Fundraising Tool for 2011
4. Setting Up Facebook Fan Pages
3. New Facebook Groups
2. Share Buttons and Bars
1. Is YouTube Making You Money?

What were your favorites?

Changes to Facebook

This week Facebook launched new changes. You can tag people who you’re with, geographic tagging for your posts, and how to separate posts to your groups.

Here’s a video explaining these changes.

If you’ve begun using the new tools, please share your reaction in the comments section.

New Facebook Groups

This week Facebook rolled out a revised Groups feature. Groups allows you to communicate with people and friends you designate in a group – such as work, home, church, classmates, etc. I wrote about Facebook groups previously. Thanks to consideration of past privacy setting issues, Facebook set the default to closed, i.e. only people in your group can see and post in the group.

Here’s a blog post by Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, explaining why they made the changes and the benefits of the new version. Here’s an alternate view of the new Facebook Groups from the New York Times. Here’s a take on it by John Haydon that explains how these changes might impact a nonprofit on Facebook.

Facebook Groups Logo

With this change how have you adjusted your agency’s groupings? Did you use groups previously? Do you like the changes? Please feel free to discuss.