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Facebook Shows Post Scheduler in Timeline Pages

Have you seen the Facebook Post Scheduler for Timeline?

A Facebook Timeline Post Scheduler seems to be rolling out today, May 31, 2012.

Facebook is offering a Post Scheduling tool for Page Admins to plan posts to go live at future times.

Page Admins will go to their Timeline News Feed and when they create a new post in the Composer there is a new little clock icon in the bottom left of the post.

Upon clicking the clock icon, a Page Admin is able to set the time starting with Year, Month, Day, Hour, and then Minutes (in increments of 10). There does not seem to be a “use current date” so it appears that users must enter this information each time.

As well, it appears users can post date information if desired.

So has this feature appeared for you?

Anyone figure out if you can go back and change the date on a scheduled post? We do not see this functionality yet. UPDATE! It is there in the Admin Panel under Activity Log in the ‘Manage’ drop down. See below.

Let us know what you think!

UPDATE:
What we are seeing is that posts scheduled via the Timeline Composer on your Facebook Page have the “Promote” option but posts via 3rd party apps using the Facebook API ONLY have “Promote” if they are a Status update or posted to a Facebook Photo Album (links do not).

UPDATE 2:
If you schedule a Page post and it has not yet posted, you can go and edit the time the post is set to go live. Go to your Page Admin Panel and then under ‘Manage’, select “Activity Log” from the drop down. Credit to @Nielsverwaal.

UPDATE 3:

Now, since we first reported on the Facebook Post Scheduler, they have added a confirmation box with easy access to edit the post in the Activity Log.

UPDATE 4:

We tried posting to two hours ago, four hours, 7 hours, etc. and we got a message telling us to use the ‘Post Now’ option. However, if we changed the date from May 31 (today) to May 30, we could then post. It posted to our timeline and the timestamp on the Timeline Page is indeed yesterday!

Facebook, Page, PostMay 31, 2012

TabSite January 12 Webinar Winner

Thanks to everyone that joined us January 12!

With a great turnout from our 500 webinar registrants, we had great engagement related to Facebook marketing trends for 2012 and new TabSite tools and features. The highlight seemed to be our pending Sweepstakes launch!

AND THE WINNER of the Free-For-Life TabSite Gold Plan is:

Tiffany Orbin of NFL Films

Congratulations Tiffany!

We hope to see Tiffany have a TabSite live on the fan page she manages in the days ahead!

Webinar slides:

Key Webinar Points:
   – Wall Posts are key to getting engagement
   – Test Posting and use Insights to learn best times and methods for posting
   – “Shelf Life” of a post is about 3.2 hours
   – Most interactions with a post occur 2 minutes after posting!
   – Use TabSite “Save & Post” for mobile friendly posting that links to your custom TabSite tabs
   – Use “Unlisted Pages” to create content only available to users you give the link to
   – Sweepstakes Beta Widget to Launch January 13 by 11 a.m. EST

Webinar Video Replay is available here: www.TabSite.com/webinars

Next Webinar: Wednesday, January 18, 2:00 EDT / 11 PST
White Label Agency Platform Overview & Q/A
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Sweepstakes Beta Launched January 13!

What if you could run a unlimited number of Sweepstakes on your fan page for just the cost of your Gold Plan TabSite?

Now you can! TabSite launched a Sweepstakes tool enabling you to customize your tabs and also run sweepstakes on your tabs all with TabSite! No more needing other expensive apps that charge for the number of days for your sweepstakes!

Post, Sweepstakes, TabSite, webinarJanuary 13, 2012

Mobile Friendly Facebook Tabs with TabSite

Did you know? One of the unique features of TabSite is Mobile Friendly Tabs!

As you have likely experienced, the Facebook mobile site and mobile apps for Android and iPhone do not offer a simple ability to access custom tabs on a fan page. Facebook limits you in the mobile version to the Wall, Info, Photos, and Activity. For most apps this means your custom tabs are hidden from viewers accessing the tab on their mobile device.

However, with TabSite this doesn’t have to be the case!

When you use the TabSite “Save & Post to Wall” feature, this will post an update to your fan page wall and it will link back to the TabSite custom tab you are posting from.

It is programmed so that if the link in the wall post is clicked, TabSite checks to see if it is a mobile browser, and, if so, we deliver a mobile friendly version of the content to the user. (see image)

This powerful feature sets TabSite apart from many fan page platforms and gives TabSite users ability to post updates to their wall about their fan page tabs that can be viewed by mobile users. With mobile use of Facebook continuing to grow and averaging over 40% of normal daily use, this unique TabSite feature of “Post to Wall” enables you to easily reach more fans and give them access to your custom tab creations!

So, the answer is, “YES!” TabSite gives you a way to reach Facebook mobile users!

Here’s the setup process to post to your fan page from the TabSite Manager.

1. From the tab you want to link to, click ‘Save & Post” from the Dropdown.

2. Use the pop-up box to customize your Facebook Fan Page Wall post:

You’ll get a confirmation message that the post was published to your wall. Below is the mobile view from an iPhone of the Facebook wall post and then the custom tab view aftering clicking the link. The image and “Widget Videos” are linked to the custom TabSite tab.