7+ Facebook Applications You Must Use
This is a guest post by Adesoji Adegbulu of AdesojiAdegbulu.com
It is no news that Facebook is for too Social Media addicts like me. If you are not on Facebook, your online business still has a long way to get into people’s mind. One of the best way to make money online is to be a smart blogger and a web savvy.
Being a smart blogger and a web savvy involves social networking. Your network determines your net-worth. It is through a social networking site, like Facebook, that you get to learn some very vital stuffs you need.
Facebook is huge and it is taking the world by storm already. Funny enough, you can get lost in it if you are not too careful. I am almost got lost too when I was making the necessary research before I did this post.
You can find a lot of Facebook Applications to use. For brevity sake, I will be telling you 7+ Facebook Applications You Must Use. I will list the ones I know and you will help me, yourself and other readers by listing the ones you know. That is why the “+” is part of the title of this post.
1. Facebook Marketplace
Facebook Marketplace lets you sell, give away, buy, ask, or search for anything you want. You can also support charities by selling for a cause. Marketplace makes it easy to see what your friends have posted and what is available in your area.
It has the following categories you can make use of:
- Items for Sale
- Housing
- Vehicles
- Jobs
2. Social RSS
Social RSS (formerly known as RSS-Connect) promotes your blog and/or business within Facebook using RSS Feeds. It supports all major versions of RSS and ATOM.
Social RSS has the following features you can use:
- Add your blog or any RSS feeds to your wall/boxes tab or create a new RSS/Blog tab dedicated to your feeds.
- Add RSS feeds to your Facebook Fan/Business Pages.
- Feeds update automatically. (Please note that due to the large number of RSS feeds, it cannot guarantee a refreshing rate with their free service. If your Page requires a more rapid refreshing rate, please consider their subscription service at $2/month. (Please email socialrss (at) hotmail.com for details)
- Your latest article will be automatically posted to your wall, and to your fans home pages selectively by Facebook.
- It helps businesses to promote their brand further. This includes the development of branded apps and bespoke Fan/Business Pages to your specific requirements.
3. Professional Profile: Business Networking
This application allows you to:
- Control Your Professional Identity
- Separate professional information to a separate tab on your profile.
- Tag Contacts
- Use tags to organize your contacts and browse your network.
- View Companies You Know
- Quickly browse companies that you have access to based on your contacts facebook information.
4. Memorable Web Addresses for Profile, Page and Group
This application allows you to create a short, easy to remember personalized web address for your Facebook profile, group or page. You can share the link with other people, post it on forums, show it on your myspace page or print it on your business cards.
This application shortens long web addresses on Facebook to something like this:
Profile: http://profile.to/AnyNameYouChoose/ OR www.profile.to/AnyNameYouChoose
Group: http://groups.to/GroupName
For Pages: have a choice of domain names such as companies.to, band.to, politician.to, facebook.dj, or artist.to
5. Profile Box
This application allows you to place anything you want in a profile box. Make a miniature web page, show your latest blog entry, even embed your favorite YouTube video, embed a free e-book and other stuffs for your friends to make use of. Anyone can use it, but if you want things to look really snazzy you’ll need to know how to use HTML.
6. Twitter
This application integrates Twitter with Facebook. It allows you to update your twitter status without leaving Facebook. You can also see the tweets from the people you follow by using this application. With this application, you see what you and your friends are up to on Twitter and update your Twitter status, right from Facebook!
7. Selective Twitter Status
This is one of the cool applications I have seen on Facebook lately. For as many of us that use the No. 6 application, we get to annoy our Facebook friends who are not on twitter. Sometimes they see status updates which they do not understand. If you have had complaints from your Facebook friends or you do not want them to complain, you need to use this application. This application allows you to choose when to update your Facebook status from Twitter by ending your tweet with #fb
These are the 7 Facebook Applications I advise you to use. Now over to you. Is there any other cool Facebook Application you know that needs to be mentioned here?
You are free to add to the above list. Together we achieve more on Facebook. Stay tuned to smartbloggerz.com as we give you more tips to make your adventure on Facebook a wonderful experience.
Stay S.M.A.R.T as a blogger and as a Social Media User!
Article written by Adesoji Adegbulu
I am a consultant and internet entrepreneur who teaches at MakeMoneyOnlineNg. You can get more updates by following me on Twitter @adesojiadegbuluAdesoji Adegbulu has written 5 superb article(s) on this blog
September 10, 2009
10:18 pm
nice list…
i liked the Memorable Web Addresses for Profile, Page and Group
Profile Box
I am gonna use it on my facebook…….
vinoth´s last blog ..Mouth to Mouth
September 11, 2009
4:14 pm
Yes, you should. That is the essence of getting to know these applications
September 10, 2009
11:03 pm
Indeed very great apps. Well so far. i have only used one application out of the 7 you’ve mentioned which is the social RSS. Lucky for me because the blogging platform i use automatically do all the work for me whenever i publish a post. Like, my post gets automatically posted on my wall. So I don’t really have to worry about having great apps. But of course, i consider the plus factor. My motto in blogging is to do all options available. But of course excluding the dirty ones.
Thanks for this one Free blogger. You’ve made me even more free by having less work with the use of these 7 great apps. Great job!
Home affiliate´s last blog ..Good Content and Traffic Makes A Blog Make Money
September 11, 2009
4:18 pm
I like Social RSS too. It makes blogging kind of automatic. Blogging alone is not self sufficient. You need to market your blog from a business perspective. That is why other apps mentioned above are relevant.
Freeblogger´s last blog ..Mind Your Language
September 11, 2009
12:58 am
This post might be my biggest stress reliever of the week, that profile box is something I want to use for my Facebook Fan page accounts for business so I can display the pages I am a fan of with a link or maybe some code to those fan pages.
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September 11, 2009
4:21 pm
Cool…I like relieving stress. Get your links and codes live on Facebook.
September 11, 2009
2:42 am
Thanks for the post I will try a few of these facebook applications!
sbunting108´s last blog ..Digital Masters: B&W Printing Book Review
September 11, 2009
3:30 am
“Selective Twitter Status” – that’s pretty cool, I had no idea that even existed, so now you don’t have to use an app that will allow you to update both twitter and the same time, just end the tweet with #fb.
Thanks for the tip.
Klaus @ TechPatio´s last blog ..I Finally Managed To Screw Up My Mac – Snow Leopard Guest Account Erased My Files
September 11, 2009
4:23 pm
Selective Twitter Status is as simply as that.
Thanks
September 11, 2009
6:55 am
thanks for this.. i have look up for this item long time ago.. i was thinking to optimize my facebook , since facebook have been one of the biggest social networking site
September 11, 2009
10:08 am
Thanks for the appz…I only used to use Twitter on my facebook…Never looked at it from this way..
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September 11, 2009
12:38 pm
Nice post, yes the secret to be success in online marketing also lies in social networking, correctly applying the use of Facebook and Twitter, making your tweets to show up on my facebook statues.
Facebook groups are a must for any online marketer!
Online shop hosting´s last blog ..F.A.Q
September 11, 2009
4:37 pm
Twitter one is best as we can operate both sites from one place…nd overall all applications are great…nice post….
September 12, 2009
7:27 am
Interesting to see FB starting to move into an area where it can compete with Craigslist for some the local sales of merchandise. I think it is a wise move and could provide some revenue for them in the short term.
September 12, 2009
8:43 am
Using RSS feeds with facebook seems like a good idea. I never done it, but surely I wanna try it.
September 12, 2009
1:30 pm
I didn’t know more than half of the tips. I never thought they existed. Will check on oit and use those I think I need to use starting with selctive Twitter status updates.
MichaelR@VoIP and Tech Blog´s last blog ..All About the V Thing
September 12, 2009
9:33 pm
These are some awesome apps for Facebook. Never thought that they could be useful for my needs.
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September 13, 2009
7:40 am
Wow!
Thanks for the awesome advice, I’ll make sure to check those applications…
And I’ll come back to this blog for sure,
Stay frosty,
Wilbur Woods
September 13, 2009
6:59 pm
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I emailed you for link exchanging, I hope you recieved it. I am a professional blogger, just like you, but my blog is quite new, because it is my second blog, I just built it in July.
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clarky´s last blog ..How to Attract Attention to Your Blog
September 17, 2009
8:21 pm
Hi Freeblogger
,
This Article is very informative, especially the combination of APP 6 and APP 7.
I Like it.
Thanks Dude
Tonny
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September 19, 2009
5:58 pm
Freeblogger your article speaks more about your experience and provides first hand information and knowhow.I did’nt knew Facebook had these features as well,am going to checking them out
October 14, 2009
3:43 pm
it’s a great list of facebook applications, i want to thank you for collecting and posting them in here. thanks
Facebook Applications´s last blog ..Facebook Applications Development Company
November 29, 2009
11:58 am
I tried the Free Version of Social RSS and Believe me it takes too much time to fetch the latest feeds from Blog.
BTW Nice list, I’ll try out Twitter Apps
Thanks and Wishes
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December 9, 2009
6:43 pm
I thought for sure some smart-aleck would’ve said “Farmville” or “Mafia Wars.” Glad to see you keep things professional around here.
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December 13, 2009
4:19 pm
twitter and social rss feed is the best in this. And i am using those in my facebook application. Facebook fanpage will be helpful for promoting our blog.
Deepika´s last blog ..I Drive You To The Next Generation: Regards, XML
June 7, 2010
9:43 am
Okay, is it a marketing thing. I still can’t get to using the facebook thing and I don’t have a desire to. I hear a lot of people talking about using Facebook, but I guess with all the other stuff out there to generate leads, I’m not in the quickest rush to use it. I can’t see using it on a personal level, and I think it’s a waste of time to sit up there and say you’re going to the bathroom, or going to the store and all that other stuff….it’s just me, sorry
July 4, 2010
12:21 am
Really nice list..I also suggest RSS graffiti application…
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