Understanding Facebook’s Timeline
So by now most people should have their brand new, shiny timelines on Facebook. They were supposed to automatically go live to everyone whether you wanted it or not but that has been postponed for the moment. As with most changes that Facebook make everyone freaks out and has a mini break down but before we know it we can’t remember what we had before. I promise this will be the case with the new timeline also.
I for one love it. I think its fun and funky and allows you to do plenty of cool things. You can go back and add in when you started a business, your wedding day or the birth of a child etc. You can also highlight photos and make them larger, hide things from certain people, all of which I will show you in a later posting.
One very simple thing that you should all do is create a gorgeous cover which is what I am going to show you today. It is great Facebook real estate that is FREE and is a waste if not used to its potential. Facebook does not allow you to run a business from your personal page but there is absolutely no reason that you can’t mention it or have images to promote it from your personal timeline.
If you are super creative and have the time and the programs you can knock yourself out and create one from scratch. The dimensions are 850 pixels by 320 pixels.
I know from talking to people that they would rather have a fancy pants program to do it for them so I have looked at a few and come up with my favourites.
J4 Timeline Covers is an app accessed directly through Facebook. They have oodles of nice generic covers you can choose from. I wanted to make something unique to me and subtely highlight the businesses I run as well as show my personal side. I chose the collage option, you will need to select 10 photos and upload them into an album of their own into photos on Facebook. The app will lead you through step by step and show you what to do. It is very easy to use. It did however take quite a few tries to get the right photo combination lay out. I wish I could have selected where to put what. In the end I got there and am happy with the result.
The second one I tried was Pic Scatter which was very easy to use. I uploaded about 30 photos to an album and it just automatically placed them for me. I have a sample here which I am not using yet. You need to pay $1.50 to get rid of their branding which I would highly recommend.
If you simply want all your friends from your lists to appear, there is a very simple app called Friendly Cover that does its thing in minutes. I imagine this would be very cool for Gen Y. As I can’t highlight my business’s or random photos this one is not for me.
Here are some really cool, creative covers to give you some ideas of what can be done, the world is your oyster.
As a fan of “the Hunger Games’ this is pure fun for me.
A picture tells a thousand words so go and tell your story.
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