See What People "Like" & new Facebook tools

Interesting tool from the people at Like Button -A one stop dashboard to see what people are currently liking on various popular websites (or specify a category: news, video, tech, music, Facebook, games, entertainment, reviews, photos, sports or movies). If you are logged into your Facebook account, you will see your friends listed first, above a divider, followed by items that are trending with the general public. This is using the social information that lies underneath Facebook and is accessible to all with whom you share. There is also a way to do with without Like Button, where you set parameters within Facebook and it will generate the proper code for you to use in iframe / Javascript SDK. First the Like Button version:


And then the Facebook plugin version:



The advantage to the latter is that it is concise and you can tailor it to a specific URL, as the example is tailored to The More Donors Blog. The advantage to the former is that you can look across various sites quickly at one site, without having to create any code or install it into a format for viewing.

Other new / more useful tools:

• Add the Like Button to your pages
• Create a Facebook "Like Box" (used to be a "Fan Box")
• The Live Stream Box - great potential for NPOs! As Facebook puts it: "...works best when you are running a real-time event, like live streaming video for concerts, speeches, or webcasts, live Web chats, webinars, massively multiplayer games." This ties in well to the post on using videoconferencing to bring experts to your constituents and take stakeholders on a virtual field trip - add the Live Stream Box and get instant feedback!
• A Recommendation Box - ...as you'll now see in the upper right corner of The More Donors Blog.

Enjoy these tools and share your success using them!

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