The World According to Tim Skipper

Since the new Facebook profiles came into effect there has been a subtle yet important change to the way in which Facebook makes your wall posts, and those of your friends visible to each other.

You may have noticed that you’re only seeing a smallish selection of your friend’s posts, and without you realising, many of your friends may not be seeing yours.

The new profile default newsfeed setting is set to show only posts from people you have recently interacted with, or interact the most with. This could be as little as the past couple of weeks or so. So for both business and personal Facebook pages you could be missing out on a lot of potential page views.

There is a simple fix, thankfully!

Scroll down to the bottom of your wall, and click on the “Edit options”  link. Then simple change the Show posts from selection to All of your friends and pages.

Done! I hope you find this useful. Perhaps if you do you would consider liking my company Facebook page: IntoNET Technology Ltd or Following me on Twitter.

Tags: Facebook, newsfeed, privacy, visibility, wall

I’ve created a free tool on our company web site that allows you to check any EU VAT number and confirm that it is valid, and where available, obtain the name and address associated with it.

It’s available here: http://www.intonet-technology.co.uk/tools/CheckAUKVATNumber

Tags: Business, tools, vat

I’ve been thinking about moving my email to a proper Microsoft Exchange server for some while now. I read my emails from a desktop PC, two laptops, an Apple iPhone 3GS and now an Apple iPad.

The desktop PC in my office is the Master, where all the mail is downloaded to and removed from the server into Microsoft Outlook 2007, with all the other laptops and mobile devices just downloading new mail.  It means when I read and delete mail during the day, I have to clean it up on my main PC as well.  It’s a pain in the butt.

So I finally took the plunge and  signed up for a Microsoft Exchange hosted account with 1and1.  It took about 5 minutes to configure and since it supports Microsoft ActiveSync, all my mobile devices and Outlook mailboxes are completely in sync all of the time.  If I delete or read mail on one, a few seconds later it’s marked as read or deleted on all the others.

I wish I had done this months ago!

Tags: Apple, iPad, iPhone, MS Exchange, Outlook

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Tags: affilliate, Business, commission

I just read a fascinating article on The Science of ReTweets, by Dan Zarella on mashable.com. Dan breaks down what makes some Twitter Tweets more ReTweetable than others. It’s a really interesting insight into the minds of Twitterers, and I believe is very useful information for anyone considering Twitter as a marketing tool.

Check it out.

Tags: retweet, Twitter