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Apart from customizing your profile pictures and Timeline cover picture, the second most important change that you can make to your Facebook page is creating dedicated tabs.

The usual Facebook page contains Info, Photos, Videos, Links and Events tab. What if you could add more tabs according to your wish and interest? With the emergence of Facebook as a tool to communicate by businesses all over the globe, this puzzle was solved as soon as it was put forth.

Hence, we have sites and apps that work for making custom tabs for your Facebook page.
An average Facebook page lands on wall or info tab by default. the good point is that you can create a custom Facebook Welcome Tab to extend warm greetings to your visitors. you can also create a few more tabs for the page. a few ideas for custom tabs are:

1. Welcome Tab or the landing site for the page visitor
2. A contest page for a promotion or contest ongoing at the moment.
3. A 'Contact Us' or 'Careers' tab for people who want to closely relate to your organization in real life.
4. A 'Shopping' tab, if you are a selling consumer products. For services, there can be an 'Explore Our Services' tab that will get all the necessary information for your direct consumers.

There is good bunch of iFrame applications available for Facebook pages. You can chose to adopt a tab available on the net or may go into an adventurous trip to making your own application for Facebook.

Developing your own App- Developing your own application is the best idea if you are familiar with the working of the developer tools. You just have to choose a name for your app, add an image and content and when finished you get an all new application to work as a new page tab. Check out the tools and resources here https://developers.facebook.com/apps

Chose from third party applications- This is an option that saves you a lot of time and homework. If you chose this option, a simple sign in process will instantly give you a new tab tailor made for your requirement. It includes all the content that you need, complete with pictures and other multimedia.

The most used app in this regard is Pagemodo. Its interface is good, simple and easy to use. It is most frequently used for making the Welcome Tab on Facebook. The designs are good and it doesn't even take much time. Find Pagemodo here http://www.pagemodo.com/

Apart from this, a few more popular apps are listed below with their most popular features:

Wildfire- Known mostly for the contest apps, it is a simple and free app. Find the app here http://www.wildfireapp.com/

Involver- They call it Static HTML and multiple tabs are supported in a single page. Installing takes only a few clicks. Find the app here http://www.involver.com/

TabSite- it allows you to make sub-tabs under main tabs. So, a Contest tab may run three different sub tabs.
Find the app here http://www.tabsite.com/

iwipia- its good for users who are not very familiar with HTML coding. It is free to use. Find the app here http://www.facebook.com/iwipa

Now we complete the trip for the essential Facebook Apps. next, we talk about monitoring your reach through Facebook.

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Decoding Social Media- Apps For Facebook Page Timeline II

Neha Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Technology must only make life simpler and better than what it was yesterday. This post is specially for all the social media fans around who spend their day on Twitter, Facebook and Gmail for work or otherwise.

It has become a literal rage to open your browser, click on Facebook bookmark, log in, then open a new tab, go to twitter, another tab and then access your Gmail account. There are many service providers who will provide you pro-quality software that will work like your virtual dashboards. But here, the problem strikes about the money that you will be paying for the same. This series of 'Super Simple Apps' is dedicated entirely to the free online resources that will make your social life real easy.

1. The first in the list is Timely By Demandforce

Timely is designed specially for twitter users. This application is available on the Internet for free. On the home page you can write the name of any twitter account and check the details of the tweets that reach the audience worldwide. It will also suggest you the right time to post your tweets.

Here is a preview

Signing up for the site is free. The best thing about this is that you can add multiple twitter accounts and write and schedule your posts according to the prescribed time. This will make sure that your tweets reach your audience at a time when they are most engaged with the site.

This tool can also prove very good for business users. For example, if your audience are engaged the most with Twitter at 4 pm, you can write a post on Timely and it will automatically share your posts with your followers on Twitter at 4 pm.

So this can be a very useful tool for businesses with a huge stake in social media sites. This will help you build your follower base and get engaged in relevant conversations online.

Pros and Cons :

This service is good for busy online people, but only heavy twitter users. You cannot connect to any other service likewise and schedule your posts. However, if you use twitter to send targeted messages or if you are a manager or business owner or a social media marketer, Timley will come as a handy tool for your Twitter needs.

Timely is available on this link http://timely.is/#/

2. The second and very useful free app is Social

This app is so simple to use that you really forget following the usual method of logging in and logging out of your various social networking accounts. It acts as a dashboard to all your social media accounts. It mainly looks after the three most used sites Facebook, Twitter and Gmail.

This app will manage all your accounts at once place. However the 'Pro-version' is paid, they also have 'Social Lite' a free to use and download version of the app. It also gives you access to all the above mentioned services. However, multiple accounts on the same service are not available on the free version.

Pros and Cons :

So while using this app you don't really have to switch to the browser again and again and change tabs. If you are using the Pro-version, it becomes even better as access to multiple accounts is available all at the same time. This Social Lite free version is also good. The connectivity speed is very good as it loads really fast. Even a separate tab on the left hand side gives you access to your groups. Moreover, it also supports chats.

However, if you have multiple accounts on the same site and use them all simultaneously on a regular basis, the free version may not make any buzz for you. But, it is true that you will not put much stress on your browser and all your notifications appear right on your desktop.

This free to download software is available on this site http://www.socialdeskapp.com/index.html

These were the first two apps and services for social media in this series. They are fun and they are free. I will be back tomorrow with more such apps. Meanwhile, you can give them a try and give your suggestions and feedback to me.

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Super Simple Apps for a Social Media Buff

Neha Monday, April 9, 2012