Dear Facebookers

If you not a person who uses Facebook, then read no further. 

Yep.  Changes on the FB.  Did you know according to “The Social Network”, Mark Zuckerberg originally called it “The Face Book”.  Enough trivia.

The SCOOP:  New settings on your news feed automatically set to show only posts from people who you’ve recently interacted with or those with whom you interact the most. Apparently, you only see and read posts from friends/fans who have interacted with you within the few weeks of this setting change.  It reports the fear, “you are now invisible to them and they are invisible to you”.

The FIX:  Scroll down to the bottom of the newsfeed on the homepage and click “Edit Options”.  It should be on the right-hand side.  Click on “Show Posts From” and change the setting to “All of Your Friends and Pages”.  Done. I’ve had reports some Friends have noticed a difference; me- none.

On another note, I have created a VTG Enterprise page on Facebook.  My goal is to create a forum  in the discussion area on website expectations, usage, content, and other subjects surrounding our interaction with this media tool.  

Please go to Facebook.com/pages/VTG-Enterprises and “like”.  Here’s a link to discussion topics currently available for comment.

http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?topic=105&post=332&uid=153067524746583#!/board.php?uid=153067524746583

Oh, it's You?

Falling…
     off the face of the Earth?

Failing….
     to keep up?

Wondering if your efforts….
     are inspiring or advancing your cause?

Terminal…
     boredom or ennui?

I’ve asked myself all these questions when I see the true time span of vacancy in Groote’s Gaggle. 

Reality lives somewhere between all of this and the fact that again I have been uprooted from my permanent digs to a new location.  I sit in transition in north Tarrant County outside of Fort Worth, TX as my hoped for, final address, is materializing brick by brick.  Most of us have that perpetual desire to set down roots and build a foundation of longevity in a place.

Over this sea of vacancy, I have been gathering in new clients, saying goodbye to some, and continually and constantly learning new avenues and turns in the roads of the World Wide Web.

Clean, easy to use, functioning websites are more and more in demand.  Video, imagery, networking your site to have conjunctive links, and updating, updating, updating!  rule.  Google is the 300 pound gorilla in the room who controls search engines across America.  Jump through their hoop if you wish to show up on a search.  What do you need to do?
Invest in your creation.  This requires some work.  Listing your site on Google, placing their “special code” in your home page, and adding a few extra “Google requested” pages help your site become recognized.

(In my opinion, we’ve googled and oogled ourselves crazy and Google has become the Microsoft bully who in spite of this, is still loved liked the prodigal son.  Even Microsoft’s  new search baby Bing is admitting it uses Google technology to retrieve searches.  Pretty sneaky. So face it, Google rules.)

The other item important to Google is HOW OFTEN DO YOU UPDATE YOUR SITE? Yep.  Google is watching when no one else may be visiting your pages.  Google is looking and calculating to see if you have anything new to say.  If you don’t, Google begins to ignore you.  Chances are everyone else does as well. 

Falling, failing, wondering?  Don’t’ become terminal.

Peace.