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February 9, 2012

How To Add A Sign Up Form To Facebook

There are many reasons you may want to add a form to your Facebook page including:

- To get people to complete membership forms for a club or group
- To get people to subscribe to a publication
- To send people something out in the post
- To email someone a voucher or offer

This week I show you how to add a simple form to a Facebook page using Google Docs and WooBox

If you are inspired to create a form after watching this video why not show it off by leaving a link to it below.

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August 12, 2011

Social Media for Schools – An Interview with Simon Lewis of Carlow Educate Together

Carlow Educate Together primary school is leading the way in using Social Media for primary education.

From using a blog for their website to communicating with parents using Facebook. For bringing schools together for joint projects via Twitter by using online tools to get more communication and interaction.

I talked to Principal Simon Lewis about some of the creative things they are doing.

Tags: Facebook,Google Tools,Interview,Twitter — Tags: blog, Carlow, Case Study, Educate Together, education, Facebook, Google Aps, primary school, school, Simon Lewis, Social Media, Twitter —

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June 17, 2011

How to find out what people are saying about you using Google Reader

This is part 3 of our series on Google Reader – a truely wonderful social media tool. This time we look at how you can monitor mentions of your brand, business, or industry online.

Knowing what other people are saying about you and your industry is massively important. You can identify problems, measure how far your message is spreading and find inspiration for blog and social media content from industry trends.

Bringing all these mentions into one place makes it easy to scan through results for relevant stuff and this is one of the reasons Google Reader is such a good tool for monitoring for free. We show you Advanced Twitter Search and Social Mention in our tutorial but for a full list of the best free social media monitoring tools click here.

In part one we showed you how to set up and how to bring your favorite blog feeds into Google Reader

In part two we showed you how to bring Google alerts into your Googler Reader

Tags: Google Tools,RSS,Tools,Tutorial — Tags: advanced twitter search, free monitoring tools, free social media monitoring tools, Google, Google reader, Monitoring, RSS, rss feeds, rss reader marketing, Social Media, social media monitoring, social mention, twitter search —

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May 20, 2011

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March 11, 2011

How to run competitions on your blog

One of the questions I am asked most frequently is how to run a contest on Facebook without breaking their promotional guidelines and without having to spend money using an application like promotions.

In this weeks videocast I show you how to add a simple form to your blog to collect competition entries using Google Docs. If you don’t have a website or blog you can also send people directly to your Google Docs form to collect entries. It’s simple and free so give it a go.

Other easy to use forms ae JotForm and FormStack these both cost but are incredibly easy to use and have more integrated embed options.

If you do set up a competition using this method let us know about it by leaving a comment below. Also let us know if you get stuck trying to put it together, I’d be happy to help you.