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FriendFeed for Beginners
A group for newcomers and beginners of FriendFeed to ask questions & for us old-timers to help where we can.
If you are new it could be a good idea to find out what FriendFeed is + read the welcome post for a quick intro to this group.
Click here for the guides that will give you run-downs on how to use FriendFeed.
If you are new it could be a good idea to find out what FriendFeed is + read the welcome post for a quick intro to this group.
Click here for the guides that will give you run-downs on how to use FriendFeed.
Alexander Kitingan to Alexander's feed, LeagueOfExtraordinaryMind, FriendFeed for Beginners, The Bloggers Discussions, Business Marketing, Small Business Success Group, Startup Success
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Panel 1 : Get Customers To Always Choose You Over Everyone Else: by leveraging credibility, believability and trust in everything you do
- Alexander Kitingan
Panel 2 : Engineer “Irrefusable Offers” Using Brain Based Marketing: so you can get people who don’t buy to by enthusiastically
- Alexander Kitingan
Panel 3 : Pre-Emptive Marketing: innovative tactics that outperform what every one else is doing
- Alexander Kitingan
Panel 4 : The Business Building Triple Play: the three key levers that’ll multiply any small business from the inside out
- Alexander Kitingan
Panel 5 : The Performance Enhancement Quotient: making everything you do bigger and better starting now
- Alexander Kitingan
Panel 6 : The Greatest Overlooked Lever In Any Small Business: leading and leveraging your team to stunning and sustaining growth
- Alexander Kitingan
Panel 7 : Fast Tracking Your Business: accelerators that drive rapid and soaring success
- Alexander Kitingan
Panel 8 : Master Your Universe: how to manage, maximize and master the opportunity that constant change presents
- Alexander Kitingan
Panel 9 : Maximum Results From Minimum Efforts: operating at peak performance to get the highest/best results from everything you do
- Alexander Kitingan
Hi, we have just joined FF and are looking how to get the best out of it we are a company (Web 2.0 Jobboard) so is it right for us? I suppose we all need to find a job sometimes when we get time to work. Any hints tips welcome
hi everyone, i am new here also. I want to grow my social network vance@MySocialNetwork.ME for persoanl and professional reasons. I am building a website, it's still WAY UNDER construction, check it out at www.VanceWilliams.Com and let me know what you think........... v@VanceWilliams.Com Let me know if you want to network. I would like to figure...
Currently my friendfeed is public. I have read in the Help section that I can make my friendfeed "private" under "Settings" and I have looked and looked under setting but cannot find where and how to do that. Can someone please tell me where in settings I can do this.
It's a tick/checkbox at the bottom just above the Save button.
- Simon Curran
Thanks so much Simon. Now I realize why I could not find it. I cannot see it because I have a toolbar at the bottom of my screen. I suppose I will have to uninstall and reinstall it. I appreciate your help.
- timethief
If your browser can zoom in and out, what I do is zoom out until all of the window shows. Cheers. Alexander
- Alexander Kitingan
I Always Push Clients "Completing A Disagreeable Job Today Replaces 24 Hours Of Dread And Worry Into 24 Hours of Relief And Accomplishment."
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Hi Polly. Yes this is a great regular realization isn't it? :-)
- Alexander Kitingan
So, Alexander, why do we have to learn it and then relearn it? We know the sense of relief and accomplishment ... and forget that sense later when we return to "dread and worry" mode.
- Polly Potter
As The Present Is Always Perfect Then One Must Dig Into What It Means To Always Return To Dread And Worry Mode. Without Sufficient Support Structures In Place To Alter Patterns Of Behavior It Is Easy To Stifle Ones Progress. Some Times A Strategic Kick Up The Backside Regularly Tweaks Progress. This Combined With Actual Paying Of Money To Generate The Feeling Of Serious Commitment Can Work Wonders. Commitment Without Cash Signals There Is An Easy Way Out.
- Alexander Kitingan
Set Up Profiles In Several Social Media Platforms Which Can Be Imported to Your FriendFeed. This Can Give You Wider Reach. As You Post In Each Profile It Is All Funneled To Your FriendFeed. Which Can Be Pushed To Your Twitter and Facebook Profile.
The World Speaks To Us And Gives Us Signs Along Our Journey. It's Up to Us To Read Them. Then To Translate That Into Meaningful Action and Results. Someone Has Said Insanity Is Doing The Same Things Over and Over Again Expecting A Different Result.
We are human beings not human doings.
Alexander Kitingan to LifeSuccessRevealed, Business Marketing, FriendFeed for Beginners, The Bloggers Discussions
Words can be used to hurt or heal.
Alexander Kitingan to LifeSuccessRevealed, Business Marketing, FriendFeed for Beginners, The Bloggers Discussions
We don't close sales. We open relationships.
Third roundtable mindshare this Thursday from Gary Vaynerchuk, Sergio Zyman, Jay Conrad Levinson, Al Ries, Vicki Kunkel, Paul Cherry FREE https://schefren.infusionsoft.com/go... It's going to be huge! "Pre-Emptive Marketing:
Innovative Tactics That Outperform What Everyone
Else Is Doing"
Paul Cherry... Author of "Questions That Sell" and founder of Performance Based Results, Paul has over 20 years experience in sales training, leadership development, sales coaching and leadership coaching. He is also one of the foremost experts on sales questioning methods and techniques, having helped over 1,200 organizations in every major industry, ranging from family-owned small businesses to leading Fortune 500 companies. Paul's sales training delivers at least a 10X return on investment to an astounding 92% of his clients.
- Alexander Kitingan
Vicki Kunkel... Author of "Instant Appeal: The 8 Primal Factors That Create Blockbuster Success," is an Influence, Persuasion, Mass Appeal and Communications Expert who helps business owners unlock the secrets of getting legions of loyal customers. She's in the business of creating trust through interactive consumer educational content that has real meaning and value to your customers, and promotes deep connections with your products and services.
- Alexander Kitingan
Jay Conrad Levinson... is one of the foremost business marketing experts in the world. Jay is the author of the #1 best-selling marketing series in history, "Guerrilla Marketing," plus 55 other books which have sold a total of 14 million copies worldwide. His guerrilla concepts have influenced marketing so much, his books appear in 43 languages and are required reading in many MBA...
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- Alexander Kitingan
Al Ries is a legendary marketing strategist and the bestselling author (or co-author) of 11 books on marketing including "Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind," "Marketing Warfare," "Focus," "The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding," "The Fall Of Advertising & The Rise of PR," and his latest "The Origin of Brands."
- Alexander Kitingan
Gary Vaynerchuk... Author of "Crush It: Why Now Is The Time To Cash In On Your Passion," Gary has captured attention with his pioneering, multi- faceted approach to personal branding and business. After building his family's local wine business into a national industry leader, he rapidly leveraged social media tools such as Twitter and Facebook to promote Wine Library TV, his video blog...
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- Alexander Kitingan
Sergio Zyman... Author of best selling book, "The End Of Marketing As We Know It," passionately advocates a vision of scientific, process-based marketing as the driver of sales and profits and the centerpiece of business. The only definition of marketing success he upholds is "selling more stuff to more people more often for more money more efficiently." Sergio was the former Chief...
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- Alexander Kitingan
Buyer psychology matters a lot in making buying decisions and also in targeting the specific part of the thought process which will sway the chances of a prospect buying to the sellers' favour. Received free tutorial session and brainshare platform with these two gurus who got these Fortune 500 consultants to share for totally free....
Hello everyone, I have been a member for about a month and I'm still "feeling" my way around. I am a somewhat eccentric but down to earth woman, living a simple rural lifestyle on a small island off the coast of British Columbia. My interests focus on mind, body, spirit, nature and relationships. I enjoy reading, music, art, humor, yoga,...
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I hope to familiarize myself a little more due to this initiative of friendfeed for beginners!
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FriendFeed API supports uploading these file extensions
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from http://friendfeed.com/api...: "Images - jpg, gif, png, jpeg, bmp, tif, tiff Audio - mp3, m3u, m4a, ogg, aac, ra, wav, wma, ac3, aif, aiff, mid, midi, swa MS Office - doc, dot, docx, dotx, ppt, pptx, potx, ppsx, xls, xlsx, xltx, pps Common standard formats - pdf, txt, csv, psd, ai, rtf, swf, ps, eps, vcf, kml, 3gp Programming - py, c, cc, cxx, cpp, java, rb, cs, vb, as, pl, html, css, js"
- Mike Chelen
where is ODF?
- ovigia
yeah the closest thing is RTF which is rather old. guess HTML makes a decent intermediate format
- Mike Chelen
Nice list for file sharing on friendfeed.
- ashish
PDF is right there :)
- Alex Scoble
sure PDF is fine if the document doesn't need to be edited much later on ;)
- Mike Chelen
Yeah, I was being snarky :) And to be honest, DOC is about the closest thing we'll ever see to a real document standard, open or otherwise.
- Alex Scoble
even if the widely used formats aren't ideal, there's an advantage from rapid sharing & discussion, that can hopefully determine what additional files might be useful ;)
- Mike Chelen
@alex: i guess you're wrong! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- ovigia
.doc is only useful for sharing within a closed ecosystem. Proprietary formats cannot rightfully be considered standards. I insist on receiving open formats, and I refuse to send anything but open formats. People over-format anyway, plain text works for 80% of the use cases where people attach Word or other files. Aside from that, Word sucks.
- LogEx
ovigia: it is odd that some word processors like abiword still do not seem to use ODT as the default file type
- Mike Chelen
LogEx: since open office is capable of reading and writing .doc it's still possible avoid word :)
- Mike Chelen
True, other apps will r/w it, but that doesn't make it any better as an interchange format.
- LogEx
@mike: i really don't know why, but at least you could save documents using odf format.http://arstechnica.com/open-so...
- ovigia
LogEx: yeah it's mostly useful for backwards-compatibility, sort similar to other fallback options like .txt or .csv - they are better than nothing, but a modern format presents more robust information storage features
- Mike Chelen
ovigia: that is true, probably they are in the process of improving and integrating OpenDocument formats. wonder how far along other office suites have come?
- Mike Chelen
I'm sorry, but when 95% of the world uses a format, it's a "de facto" standard, regardless of whether it's open or not.
- Alex Scoble
how do people measure usage statistics? they are more difficult to collect than tracking website visitor browsers. since windows market share is only 90% that would mean some non-windows users would have to be running word :D
- Mike Chelen
@alex i really don't know where you get those numbers since here in the EU, and several other countries like Brasil, ODF is the default standard; and NATO uses ODF as a mandatory standard for all members
- ovigia
Certainly Word is ubiquitous, but it's hardly standard. We used to use Word in med school and residency in order to pass on information at the end of the day to the on-call team, but ever since HIPAA passed, we ended up having to switch to proprietary encrypted web based solutions. And most of the on-line documents we received from the residency program, medical organizations, and the boards that aren't in plain text are in PDF format.
- Victor Ganata
ovigia: in the US at the moment, majority of documents on government websites are PDF, XLS, or DOC. it depends what is considered a document though, and fortunately there is a growing amount of XML
- Mike Chelen
Mike: well, here in Portugal our government is very, very pro-microsoft, so we still have to face the DOC(x) format, but we can already find PDF and sometimes ODF; In the EU sites usually we have the 3 formats.
- ovigia
Hi all, Im new here. Trying to get adjusted
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just testing how this program works?
- JeannetteLancaster
Hey all, just joined up so i can hook up with family n friends and hopefully make some new ones! :) Go look at my cats on flickr! will post more soon! :) PS: anyone know how to link facebook and friendfeed, i cant suss it! :(
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is it possible to embed flash other than youtube etc ... Trying to do something like http://friendfeed.com/mokarga... for http://df.posterous.com/braiiii... - not sure what the proper incantation might be!
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Hi everyone, thanks for inviting me into your group. You can find out more information about me at my blog site: www.simplesteps2financialfreedom.com. Have a great day!
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Can anyone help me post an animated .gif - when I upload it doesn't not play.
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just upload it to soup.io or meme.yahoo.com and add you user to your setting
- shâhin
Oh. Well, I gotcha. Thanks will try. :)
- Holly Rae, FFer
not@all :)
- shâhin
Wait a second... I have Y. Meme action but no RSS feed from it and no way to hook Y. Meme into FF.
- Holly Rae, FFer
:)
- Holly Rae, FFer
DOH. Sorry found Meme RSS active when I actually view my profile. I've become very spoiled here in FF.
- Holly Rae, FFer
add a custom rss like this one http://meme.yahoo.com/apolun/
- shâhin
So as you may see I am finally successful. Thank you.
- Holly Rae, FFer
greeting :D
- shâhin
Welcome to Friendfeed, Ken ~ your work has been very influential to me!
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Thanks Holly - your support is really appreciated - KEN
- kenthompson
So now that my conference season is coming to a close I would be interested in visiting with you about Swarm communities. :)
- Holly Rae, FFer
Hi Holly - it would be good to catch up - let me know a good time to have a chat on skype - Best Regards KEN
- kenthompson
from email
[WELCOME TO FF-BG]: Firstly welcome to the new Beginner's room! Hopefully this room will be used by new users to find out and ask questions on how to use FriendFeed + by more experienced users to help out with the queries and to welcome the new users to the FriendFeed community.
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If you have any queries on using FriendFeed start by checking the "guides" here: http://bit.ly/10vcK. If none help try searching the group as you may find it has already been answered:
- Kol Tregaskes
1. To do this type in one or more keywords, for example "filter", into the search box at the top of the screen. As you type a list will appear underneath the box. Before hitting Enter to start the search make sure "Search friendfeed-beginners for <keyword(s)>" is highlighted. Once you press Enter you will be presented with posts where the term or terms have been found in the title or a comment.
- Kol Tregaskes
2. If you find the list does not help you, press back on your browser or return to the group's home page here: http://friendfeed.com/friendf... and type in your question in the text box below the group's name and above the words "Add: Photos". This is the 'share box' and you will find these on most pages within FriendFeed.
- Kol Tregaskes
3. If you would like to add an image, such as a screenshot, click on the word "Photos" underneath the box and use the dialog to navigate to the image you wish to upload. Then either double-click on image file or highlight the file and click on the Open button. A progress bar will appear and once the image is uploaded it will be shown as a small thumbnail under your post.
- Kol Tregaskes
4. Once you're happy with your post press the "Post" button and you will see your post appear in the group just under the share box.
- Kol Tregaskes
Later on you'll hopefully get one or more comments to your post. These will apear under your question, to post your own comments:
- Kol Tregaskes
1. Click on the word "Comment" under your question.
- Kol Tregaskes
2. A new text box will appear at the bottom of the comments already posted. Type your comment in the box and press the "Post" button. This wil post your comment and it will appear at the bottom of the thread.
- Kol Tregaskes
I hope this gets you started, feel free to leave any feedback here. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
NEED MORE HELP? CAN'T FIND YOUR ANSWER HERE? You are welcome to post your question here, but also feel free to ask any of the Admins of this group (we're the ones whose names you see as authors of any of the [HOW TO:] posts in this group). By clicking on any of our names, you can subscribe to our feeds and have the opportunity to watch regular, avid FF users in action. Also, you can then send us a Direct Message (click the link in your Filters box) and ask for help.
- Mark Traphagen
If you want to view the "guides only please use this link: http://bit.ly/1ll2Y - this shows all the HOW-TO, LISTs and other help posts that have been written for the group and is a great way to start.
- Kol Tregaskes
Hi, I am manoj sharma from India, a newbie hree. I need some help of senior member.
- Manoj Sharma
Please review the website: http://bit.ly/LCSBQ
- Manoj Sharma
This will be very useful for a workshop I am doing in my HEI to introduce academic and support staff to the delights and benefits of 'using social media to inform and educate' - any further hints, tips or useful guides that anyone can point me to, would be very gratefully received ;-)
- Julia Ault
Hi and Kia Ora....My name is Fololi Lologa-Iosua from Auckland, New Zealand...This is my first time on FriendFeed and I welcome any suggestions and recommendations to help me build up my networks with people all over the globe...I look forward to more communciations with you all! I quite like your idea Julia about the use of Social Media to inform and educate....Look forward to a long lasting friendship on FriendFeed!
- Fololi Lologa-Iosua
and so it begins. I'll start the office ff how do you sign your name to your post?
- rin wall
YouTube - How I Learned to Love FriendFeed (The Director's Cut) - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Holly Rae, FFer to Holly's feed, FriendFeed for Beginners, FriendFeed Talk, FriendFeed Rooms, FriendFeeders' Directory, Higher Education, NewMexicoWebGeeks, Eduify, Classroom2.0, Lorie Mitchell
I'm so happy to find Lorie here in FF ~ she's a wonderful person to connect with for education, web, and all things tech. So Lorie, say hi and tell us more about yourself so the FFers can welcome you!
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Hey, FriendFeeders! I'm new at this one, but loved how Holly was able to make comments on our presentation at NM-TIE. I'm an educational technologist at NMSU Carlsbad and have been a computer geek for about 25 years now. Love technology and love teaching online. I teach computer science and marketing classes online. :) Looking forward to meeting you all!
- Lorie Mitchell
Loriiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Awesome. You're officially a FFer now.
- Laura (hear me raura?)
Hi, Lorie. Nice to have you here. Yay for edugeeks!
- Shea
Shea and Raura, thanks for saying hi!
- Holly Rae, FFer
Thanks so much for the warm welcome! Edugeeks ROCK! :D
- Lorie Mitchell
sorry i missed your intro, welcome aboard, ;)
- chaz2b
Yay!
- Holly Rae, FFer
This is great! I need all the help I can get! Thanks for the group. Looking forward to getting in contact with everyone! Carol
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[WHAT IS]: FriendFeed (and what is it for)? An Introduction
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I remember when I first logged in to FriendFeed (I joined at the launch of the beta version, so my comments will relate to that). My first thought was "What the heck is this and what can I do with it?" I was already an active Facebook and Twitter user (as well as a blogger). Why did I need yet another social web service? In this post I and other FF for Beginners Guides will try to answer those questions.
- Mark Traphagen
DEFINITION: There are as many definitions of FF as there are users. In part that's because FF is so flexible and powerful, people use it for many different things. The "official" self-description of FF is "FriendFeed helps you discover and discuss interesting stuff that your friends and family find on the web." I would add another verb: "share." So in a nutshell, FF helps you SHARE-DISCOVER-DISCUSS. The unique power of FF is the way it allows you to blend and cross all three of those actions.
- Mark Traphagen
1. SHARE: FriendFeed allows you to post things from the Internet (or your own thoughts & ideas) that you want to share with others. You can do this manually by simply typing a post into the blank at the top of your Home page. OR automate what you share here by giving FriendFeed access to any of the other social web or bookmarking services you use (HOW TO: http://beta.friendfeed.com/friendf...)
- Mark Traphagen
2. DISCOVER: Browse your Home page feed and any Subscriptions or Filters you have for a never-ending cascade of stuff others on FriendFeed have found fun/interesting/helpful. The more subscriptions you have, the faster that waterfall flows (feed pages in beta FF now update in real time). You can make anything you see show up in your own public feed by either adding a comment to it (see below) or clicking "like" under the topic.
- Mark Traphagen
3. DISCUSS: Here's where FF "one ups" other social web services: Virtually anything you see on FF can have a discussion attached to it. This begins when any user adds a comment to the post. You can join any discussion by clicking "comment" under the post description. TIP: To keep track of discussions in which you've participated, click the new "My Discussions" link in your Filters box. Discussed topics automatically rise to the top as new comments are added.
- Mark Traphagen
That's the basics, but there is SO much more power to FriendFeed! Browse or search the topics in this group for more ideas. Perhaps my fellow guides will add their own "What is FriendFeed?" definitions below.
- Mark Traphagen
I like this post, but would like it even better were it more concise, less chatty, more descriptive as to the differences between FF and some other, more widely talked-about social sites. Especially for those among us who thus far have abstained from joining by-and-large sophomoric "communities". [Typo? what typo].
- ianf ⌘
Thanks for the feedback, lanf. Typo corrected. This definition was "chatty" by design. My intention was to draw in those who, like myself at one time, feel overwhelmed by FriendFeed's seeming complexity. I wanted to create interest without being exhaustive, so I limited myself to the three things that are standout (to me) about FriendFeed. Sure, other social web locations allow you to "share, discover, & discuss," but the power of FF is the unique way it brings the three together.
- Mark Traphagen
Might be a good idea, though, to create a post here that describes specific differences between FF and other services. In the meantime, if you're interested in that subject, FF fanatic Robert Scoble has hosted many active discussions here on how FF differs from Twitter and Facebook in particular. If you browse this filter: http://beta.friendfeed.com/search... you'll find some of them.
- Mark Traphagen
I'll study it later, but for now made it into my own filter (as apparently there is no other way to share ready-mades among ourselves).
- ianf ⌘
Nice intro
- Luqman Saeed
Thanks for the tutorial. I appreciated it.
- timethief
Nice definition. I will add my voice for >4. BLOG, aggregate< .Please boost the blogging capabilities. That means, allow posting more text, allow some text formatting. Otherwise, this mixture you lay out here, is the success recipe for any social site out there - BOOKMARK, aggregate - IMPORT, aggregate - DISCUSS. I might add support for email sending via "em@emailaddress" in the post, and aggregation of discuss, where comments would also go to FB, Intense Debate, Disqus, or any other platform.
- Petr Buben
Hi everybody, Thanks for the invite, just a quick visit for now and to say Hello. Looking forward to hearing from you all
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