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Vine focus tool – putting the subject into focus

If you want to shoot good Vine videos, you want to use the Vine focus tool.

Like the Vine ghost tool, the Vine focus tool was designed to help make it possible for anyone with a smartphone to shoot good quality Vine videos.

What does the Vine focus tool do?

The focus tool is a way for Vine users to select which points in their video they want to focus on. This can be used to create a narrow or shallow depth of field to give videos an artistic style or you can use the focus tool to improve the lighting in your videos.

Using the Vine focus tools is fairly easy to do. You’ll just want to make sure you use it in the correct order. Otherwise when you think you’re focusing in your Vine video, you may be just shooting your Vine video.

To use the Vine focus tool, follow the instructions listed below or watch the Vine focus tool video tutorial.

How to use the Vine focus tool

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How to change manager’s choice on LinkedIn Groups

Manager’s Choice is a great tool for LinkedIn Group owners to use to feature and highlight specific content to their group members. Learn how to change managers choice on LinkedIn Groups in just a few steps.

Before you begin changing manager’s choice on your LinkedIn Group posts though, it’s important to know that not all posts can be set for managers choice.

Types of posts for LinkedIn Groups

Here is an example of two types of posts made in LinkedIn Groups. Notice that one is bold and the other is not. Posts that are in bold can be set to managers choice. Posts that are not in bold cannot be set for managers choice and only link off to the website link provided.

Change managers choice on LinkedIn Groups — LinkedIn Groups – Managers Choice

Follow these instructions on how to change managers choice on your LinkedIn Group posts.

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Changing Facebook group privacy settings [video]

Did you know, you can change Facebook group privacy settings to open, closed or secret. This allows you to create Facebook Groups to help your business meet various business needs in the process.

Ways to use Facebook Group privacy settings

There are plenty of ways to use Facebook group privacy settings to your advantage. You want to make sure you know how to change Facebook group privacy settings. This way you can control who can and cannot access your Facebook Groups and the information that is shared there.

For example, if you create a Facebook Group for product testers and you only want a select group of people to be a part of that group, you want to make sure you set the Facebook group privacy settings to secret.

Otherwise, if you’re not careful, you could accidentally leak out valuable information.

Fortunately, changing Facebook Group privacy settings is very easy to do. Simply follow the instructions listed below to change your group privacy settings.

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Social Media tips for your WordPress blog

If you have a WordPress blog, it’s essential that you are plugged into social media. Just putting some social media icons on your blog isn’t enough, though. You actually need to follow some tips in order to provide your readers with the best experience possible.

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5 Reasons why Facebook is good for business [Infographic]

While a lot of businesses have a presence on Facebook, a lot of them do not yet see the full value in using Facebook. This is likely because there isn’t much consistency to the changes that occur on Facebook, which can make it difficult to use Facebook as a viable tool for business. For example, Facebook recently changed the news feed algorithm (again). Because Facebook always seems to be influx, most businesses are skeptical to rely on Facebook for conducting business. While changes can cause businesses to need to rethink their strategy at a moments notice, there are plenty more reasons why Facebook is good for business and why you shouldn’t count Facebook out just yet.

The team at Cloudtactix put together this handy infographic on why Facebook is good for business. Hopefully these numbers will convince your business that there is value in using Facebook for business.

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Get organized with the Facebook organize tool

Is your Facebook news feed overrun with updates from people you no longer interact with? Did you know you can use the Facebook organize tool to clean-up your news feed.

What is the Facebook organize tool?

The Facebook organize tool is a way to remove updates from your news feed from people you don’t interact with very often.

When you use the organize tool to remove people, you are telling Facebook that you don’t want to see updates from those individuals in your news feed – you’re not actually disconnecting your friendship with those people.

Instead, what this does is it reduces the number of updates you see in your news feed from them.

This is very helpful if there are people you haven’t interacted with someone in quite some time.

Using the organize tool is very easy. Follow the instructions below to start cleaning up your news feed with the Facebook organize tool.

Using the Facebook organize tool

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Facebook shared photo albums – collaborate and consolidate [video]

If you’ve ever attended a conference or gone on vacation with friends or family, you know how frustrating it can be to collect all of the photos that everyone took. With Facebook shared photo albums, you can now easily share photos and consolidate them into one album.

What are Facebook shared photo albums?

Facebook shared photo albums are photo albums that multiple people can contribute to. This means they can view, edit, and add photos to an album.

Creating Facebook shared photo albums is very easy (and beneficial). To create shared albums, follow these instructions.

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13 Mind-blowing Facebook stats

Facebook recently released their second quarter earnings for 2013. With a lot riding on Facebook’s quarterly earnings report, they released a number of Facebook stats to go along with it.

Fortunately, they didn’t need all of the stats that they provided to demonstrate how well Facebook is doing. For those of you interested in seeing which Facebook stats were shared, Craig Smith at Digital Marketing Ramblings compiled a comprehensive list.

So what Facebook stats did they talk about? Obviously, mobile usage was a big one. Others covered the growth of Facebook’s users.

Overall, they were interesting stats that provided good insight into the health of Facebook – which is very good at the moment.

Here’s a rundown on some of the Facebook stats that I found interesting.

There are 1.15 billion total Facebook users [tweet this]
Facebook has 699 million daily active users [tweet this]
On average, users are connected to 89 pages and groups [tweet this]
Users spend 20 minutes on average per day on Facebook [tweet this]
The average Facebook user has 141.5 friends [tweet this]
Checking Facebook is what 48% of users between the age of 18-34 do first in the morning [tweet this]

If you like these Facebook stats, keep reading, as there are more (and an infographic).

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