Change Your Headline on Facebook Posts

Here are three reasons you might want to change your headline on a Facebook link post:

• The article has been updated
• You made a mistake
• You want to withhold some information to tease readers to click through (don’t do this for serious crime/deaths)

And here’s how you do it.

Drop the link to any article into the status update box.

Hover over the headline until it turns yellow, then click.

Type whatever you want.

Click back outside the box.

Hit post, and you’re done! (Well, I would actually delete the short link from the post since the thumbnail will turn into a link, and I would add some context to give users a reason to click, but as for changing the headline you’re done.)

(You can do the same thing with the dek.)

Facebook 101: Tagging People, Pages

If you aren’t sure how to properly utilize people- and page-tagging from your own Facebook page, I put together this tutorial. It’s my first “live demo” attempt, so feel free to comment with some constructive criticism.

(I recommend going full screen with the video if you want to read the font.)

Facebook Enhances Page Notifications with Thumbnails

I just noticed that Facebook is showing thumbnails of the specific photos “liked” on page admin notifications. Love these feature, which makes it much easier to see what people are interacting with as opposed to forcing you to click through.

Anyone notice this before today?

Schedule Facebook Posts through Jan. 2, 2013 (But Why?)

More proof the Mayans didn’t know what they were talking about: You can now schedule Facebook posts as far ahead as early 2013.

I noticed the 2013 option on the schedule post feature Thursday afternoon. I tested it this morning, and the latest possible time I was able to set a post was for Jan. 2, 2013 at 9:20 a.m.

So maybe that’s when the world is going to end? Although Facebook only allows posts to be scheduled in 10-minute intervals, so I suppose it’s possible the world could end as late as 9:29 a.m. that morning, but that could be overly optimistic.

Here’s how the scheduled post looks in the activity log:

Facebook hasn’t updated its blog since January, and I can’t find any other info on the change. If you know why this odd, limited change has taken place, please share. Or if you can find a good reason to schedule a post for the first two days of 2013, I would love to hear it.