I suppose it had to happen – I’ve finally gotten serious about building my Facebook business network.
You can join my network on Facebook HERE!
And of course, it wouldn’t be a Barbara Ling post if I didn’t scout about for super-nifty Facebook resources to help you really benefit from the site:
General Facebook Marketing Resources:
- 12 Ways to Use Facebook Professionally
- 13 Marketing Points on Facebook
- A Facebook App for Every Occasion
- Agarwalla Brothers Relaunch Scrabulous as Wordscraper
- Another Tiny Facebook Hack
- Are Facebook Apps The New Brand Wasteland?
- Big brands on Facebook: What doesn’t work
- Can Higher Ed Marketing Be Divided Between Those Who Use Facebook
- Facebook as an Effective Marketing Medium
- Facebook – best branded social network option
- Facebook Connects Your Brand Across the Social Web
- Facebook Email Etiquette
- Facebook For Business Basic Philosophy
- Facebook Marketing: Articles and Resources
- Facebook more popular than porn
- Facebook: New Rules, Less Virality
- Facebook security and conspiracy
- Facebook Vs LinkedIn – And The Winner Is
- How Associations can use Facebook
- How Do I Make Money On Facebook? – Is The Wrong Question
- How higher ed is using Facebook Pages
- How Not to Use Facebook for Marketing
- How To Develop A Successful Facebook Group
- Marketing Red Rover with a Facebook Note
- Marketing Your Small Business With Facebook
- Our Facebook Marketing Campaign Yields Exceptional ROI
- Overview: Integrating Facebook Connect With Your Website
- Social Network Marketing Tool Tag Biz Adds Facebook Applications
- Three tips for marketing on Facebook
- Using Facebook to Drive Traffic to Your Website
- Using Facebook Pages to Promote Your Blog
- Using Facebook for Social Marketing
- Why Facebook? Social Networking for Fun and Profits!
- Why Facebook sucks to manage communities
Next, as masters of social networking, you’re probably interested in:
Facebook and Twitter and Friendfeed:
- Am I Done with Facebook? Twitter FTW!
- Crossposting On Twitter, Facebook, Google
- Facebook the Walled Garden, Twitter Anything But
- Facebook tries to be friendfeed, Twitter’s throwing a tantrum
- Facebook vs. Twitter and Communities in General
- Facebook vs Twitter as latest refuge of the nerds
- Google Twitter and Facebook Rankings – ShoeMoney
- How do Hardcore Facebook, MySpace and Twitter
- How FriendFeed could dwarf Facebook and Twitter
- How to link Twitter to Facebook
- How to publish your Facebook status to Twitter
- Is Twitter the Facebook for Fogeys?
- Manage Twitter, Facebook Messages, and More with Sendible
- Should My Husband Blog/Twitter/Facebook/Etc?
- The Friendfeedization Of Facebook
- The Fix on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter
- Twitter, Facebook called on for higher purpose
- Twitter is The New Facebook
- Twitter to Facebook friends import tool?
- Why I Like Facebook And Twitter
- Why Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter Hurt Publishers
Is there an off-chance you, like me, find hacking apps to be a most exciting way to spend 473 hours? If so, feast your eyes on:
Facebook Apps and Hacks:
- 101 Facebook Hacks You Never Knew About
- 7 Facebook Apps Every Blogger MUST Have
- 90% of Facebook Apps Have Unnecessary Access to Private Data
- Developing Facebook applications in C# with ASP.NET
- Facebook Applications
- Facebook applications tell us a lot about the mobile gaming
- Facebook App Review
- Facebook Financial & Banking Apps Have Only 263 Daily Users
- Facebook Preparing To Give Some Apps An Edge
- Facebook Turning Off Spammy Apps
- Facebook hacks and apps
- Facebook Widget-App Golden Age ending?
- Hacking The Facebook Platform For Data Portability
- Malicious attack takes down Scrabble on Facebook
- Virtual goods starting to pan out for Facebook game app developers
It goes without saying that EVERYONE uses WordPress (or should! 
):
Facebook and WordPress Plugins:
- Add To Facebook Plugin
- Cross-post to your Facebook account directly from your WordPress blog
- Facebook Badge WordPress Plugin
- Facebook Comments WordPress Plugin
- Facebook Dashboard Widget
- Facebook Status WordPress Plugin Press
- Fotobook
- Facebook Photos WordPress plugin for WordPress
- WordPress Facebox
And of course, it just wouldn’t be a Barbara Ling post without a tip ‘o the hat to the delights of mobile and iPhone technology:
Facebook and iPhone or Mobile Phones:
- Add Contact Pictures Using the Facebook iPhone App
- Facebook Connect for Mobiles to Come This Fall
- Facebook literally spells out “Comment” to get users to do it
- Facebook on the iPhone: 1M Downloaded, “Connect” Service Launched
- Facebook, MySpace Ignore Location On iPhone At Their Peril
- Facebook Releases iPhone App v1.1, Makes 1.0 Seem Quaint
- iPhone apps: Bad for Facebook, OpenSocial?
Worried about your Privacy and Facebook security? You’re smart! Mosey on to:
Facebook Safety and Facebook Security
- 3 Simple Facebook Security Tips
- 9 Facebook Tips That You May Not Know
- Facebook Agrees To Permanently Deploy Child-Safety Measures …
- Facebook and Privacy
- Facebook, Attys General Introduce New Child Safety Features
- Facebook Identity Theft Protection Guide: 6 tips to protect your identity on Facebook
- Facebook – Privacy settings recommended by Sophos
- Facebook’s Safety in Numbers
- Facebook Safety – LoveToKnow Social Networking
- Facebook’s safety oxymoron: Facebook Connect
- Facebook security advice tips & guide
- Facebook Top 8 Security Tips
- Hackers Exploiting Facebook, MySpace Plug-ins
- Like MySpace, Facebook Strikes Net Safety
- Safety In The News : Threats on Facebook dismissed by judge
- Safety on Facebook
- Social Networking Sites: Etiquette and Safety
- Your Privacy Is An Illusion: Facebook security lapse
And finally, in honor of my fellow parents who love teaching their kids:
Facebook and Higher Education:
- E-Learning Council and Facebook
- Facebook 2.0
- Facebook as an education tool?
- Facebook as an eLearning tool
- Facebook Complimenting e-Learning
- Facebook for Teachers
- Facebook, Meet Blackboard
- Facebook Privacy for Teachers
- Facebook cheating scandal nothing new
- Gradzilla vs. Facebook | higher ed marketing
- Higher Ed Facebook Applications
- The eLearning Guild
- When students created Facebook pages that viciously attacked a teacher
- When Young Teachers Go Wild on the Web
Hope you enjoy!
Barbara Ling
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Thanks for all the links — that should keep me busy all weekend!
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I know that feeling for sure….
Thanks for stopping by, Barbara
This is huge list Barbara! Thanks for including my article!
I don’t know how useful people will find the info in it considering the wealth of info provided. I think you just gathered all there is published on the topic. Great work and I’m sure time consuming.
That’s why I broke it down into the following categories:
General Facebook Marketing Resources
Facebook and Twitter and Friendfeed
Facebook Apps and Hacks
Facebook and Wordpress Plugins
Facebook and iPhone or Mobile Phones
Facebook Safety and Facebook Security
Facebook and Higher Education
Makes it much easier to peruse.
Barbara
What a great list. I’ve sharred it with all of my friends interested in better using networks like Facebook. The best list I’ve seen on Facebook by far.
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Thanks for your generous comments! I very much appreciate them and am glad you find the list useful.
Enjoy, Barbara
nice list!… i just ran across this and went thru a few… i’m thinking now that i need to go back thru and make some changes to sites/apps that i have
My pleasure!