With this change you might also have realised that noticed some other changes. For example when you take a look at the area where it used to have the images of your ‘Fan’s’ it now says  ‘xxx People like This’. One of the impacts of the change is that you can no longer click on the link of those photos and scroll through them and add one of the fans of your Page to become an admin of your Facebook Page.

So here is how you now add Fan’s to your Facebook Page.

1. Select the “Edit Page” option when you are viewing the Page you currently administer (under your image on the top left of your Facebook Page

2. On the right hand side you will see a link for ‘Admins’ and click “Add.”

3. You will be able to see all your friends and can then add people from your Friend List that you would like to be an Admin of your Facebook Page. If the  person you wish to invite to be an administrator of your Page is not presently a member of Facebook, you can invite them to so  by typing their email address in the “Add Admins via Email” field. They can then register on Facebook and will need to accept the invitation to become an admin as they join Facebook.

4. Click the “Add Admins” button.

The Facebook Friends you select will be able to help you manage your Page.

This means that any adminstrator of your Facebook Page must now also be connected to you as a Friend.

What other changes have you noticed as a result of this change to Facebook Pages this week?

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1.    Hellotxt.com – I use this micro-blogging aggregator to instantly update my status on virtually all of my social networks at one time. While there are other great tools for this you can investigate, this is the one I use. (You might Google “microblogging aggregator.”)

2.    SocialOomph.com and Hootsuite.com – These nifty services can
do a whole bunch of things including:

• Acting as a microblogging aggregator
• Sending out an automated tweet when someone follows you, and

  auto-following them back

• Forwarding you any direct messages sent to you via Twitter
• Tracking when someone uses your hashtag
• Having your preset tweets to go out at certain times and days. This is especially handy if you’re going out of town, but good any time to keep your “tweet stream” fresh.

3.    Utterli.com – I use this free service to create audio podcasts (with transcripts even), and have them post automatically to my Website and blog. All you need is a phone and you’re good to go.

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With the revitalization of the inner cities and old buildings as ” industrial lofts”, the green movement, and the economy and the slow economic recovery of late, the timing for SPAGG.com is prefect:

Spagg.com Network – the first place where private owners can securely rent their cars to make extra money.  Owners and renters meet for pickup and drop off – it is perfect.  It cuts out the middlemen completely, and utilizing today’s social network technology and mobile access to the best advantage of car owners who need to offset costs, the environment we all live in, the reduction of congestion and parking issues, the reduction of dependence on foreign oil: everybody wins on this one!

Why Use Spagg?

• Prices other car renters can’t beat
• Environment: improve car usage efficiency
• Give your business to the community

How Does Spagg Work?

• You pick location, date and car
• Spagg matches you with a car owner
• We arrange a convenient pickup site
• Spagg helps you with insurance and payments

Why Is Spagg Safe?

• Vehicles in safe operating condition
• Users fully identified
• All rentals have property and 3rd party liability coverage

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We would have killed for the new YouTube Direct tool just launched by Google.

Built from our APIs, this open source application lets media organizations enable customized versions of YouTube’s upload platform on their own websites. Users can upload videos directly into this application, which also enables the hosting organization to easily review video submissions and select the best ones to broadcast on-air and on their websites. As always, these videos also live on YouTube, so users can reach their own audience while also getting broader exposure and editorial validation for the videos they create.

Of course, this is not just limited to news organizations. Any business, blogger, or nonprofit that wants to solicit user-generated video is going to find a way to use YouTube Direct. In fact, Google reports that ABC News, the Huffington Post, NPR, Politico, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Washington Post and WHDH-TV/WLVI-TV in Boston are already using YouTube Direct.

What you need to know:

• Built on the YouTube API, this 100% open-source solution provides you with an easily-integrated audience engagement platform for your website
• The customizable interface allows you to tailor the look and feel of the tool precisely to your audience
• Visitors can answer your call for content by uploading their videos to YouTube via your site without leaving the page
• A moderation panel enables your editors to review and approve/reject all submitted videos, deciding which ones meet your organization’s editorial criteria
• All videos approved by your editors include a link back to your site when viewed on YouTube

You can also learn more from this YouTube video–how appropriate:

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And they may be right. Why not? For me though, as I have been mentioning over here in this blog for a long while now, it is a whole lot more than just tools. Or technologies. To me, social computing within the enterprise is about everything, but the tools. It’s a philosophical and social corporate movement, a lifestyle, a new way of connecting and interacting with people, both inside and outside of the firewall; one where the main focus is not on the technology itself, but on the people behind it.

Yes, I’m talking about culture. Indeed, it’s all about a cultural shift, one that is starting to take the corporate world by storm at multiple levels, going from a grassroots bottom-up approach all the way to a top down executive level. If you ask me, I would even venture to state that is unstoppable at this point in time. We are probably far too immersed in it already to just want to back out of it altogether. So if it were just about technology itself, we probably could have done it already, but since the change is much more profound, like I said, I don’t think there is a way back. And that’s a good thing.

So I thought that today I will put together this blog post to start talking about something that it’s been on my mind for a while and which touches base on how receptive, open and collaborative the culture of a particular business needs to be in order to adopt and embrace social software. There are a couple of blog posts out there that I would want to reference on this topic, but I still haven’t finalised my thoughts about neither of them.

Yet last week I bumped into another YouTube video that brought back that conversation into my mind of how collaborative your corporate culture needs to be in order to embrace these social tools. And while I finalise that entry, I just mentioned above, I thought I would put together this blog post sharing that video to give you some hints as to where that follow-up conversation will be heading to, and what my two cents on the topic would be so far.

And it all starts with a rather provocative statement: “Culture Eats Strategy for Lunch“. Funny, I’m just going to be linking to a YouTube video that talks about culture and strategy on the same sentence. Quite an oxymoron, don’t you think? Yet it’s social computing the glue that would make it stick together and make sense of it all, especially if you want to have a much more open, transparent and collaborative culture within your company that aligns, at the same time, quite nicely with your own business strategy.

I tell you, this is one of those videos that will make you think for a little while on the topic. It surely has done that with me after I watch it through. It lasts two minutes and 24 seconds and I’m certain that it would do the same to you… In fact, after watching it, I just couldn’t help thinking how important the corporate culture will be for every single business on their successful adoption of social software.

Specially, if that collaborative nature already pre-exists before embracing these social tools. But again, not going to reveal much more till that other follow up and upcoming blog post. Instead, here is the embedded video I would want to share with you folks now to then open up the conversation for a future series of blog posts… on Social Computing, Business Strategy, Culture and how we could combine them all into a single corporate entity… Nice and exciting challenge, eh?

(Video clip courtesy of Coffman Organization)

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