The document provides a list of over 30 Facebook apps that businesses can use to promote themselves, share content, network, collaborate, sell products, run contests, and integrate location-based features. It notes that Facebook will no longer allow custom tabs starting in November 2010. The author marks several apps with an asterisk that they personally use and recommends the list as a starting point for businesses to integrate Facebook apps into their pages.
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Business apps for your facebook page
1. Facebook Business Apps
Brenda Whitfield
Go Get Creative Design and Marketing
Navarre, Florida
http://www.facebook.com/gogetcreative
10/13/10
This is by no means a complete list of apps or recommendations. The apps I personally use are
marked with *. This list is only as a reference to get you started on your integrated FB Page.
FYI: 10/13/10 - It has come to my attention that Facebook will not longer allow Custom Tabs starting in
November. You can still use and enjoy custom business apps. I will post more to my blog and FB page at
http://www.facebook.com/gogetcreative as new information comes to light.
Social Media and Blog Apps
NetworkedBlogs * This app shows up on your profile or in your boxes tab and displays your blog and
any of the blogs you like to read. Its a great way to promote yourself and others.
My LinkedIn Profile Creates a badge from your LinkedIn profile that gets displayed on your Facebook
profile.
Social Tweet (formerly Social Twitter) - Social Tweet enables you to tweet directly from Facebook. It
updates both your Twitter and Facebook profile. It can also be displayed on your Wall, Boxes tab or a new
"Tweets" tab. You can also select which tweets to be posted to your status.
YouTube Channels - Synchronize your Youtube Channel with your Facebook profile, pages or even on
Application page.
Constant Contact Labs - Join My Mailing List - Helps Facebook users interested in your business or
organization to join your Constant Contact contact lists.
際際滷Share * - 際際滷Share is the world's largest community for sharing presentations. Upload your
presentations, documents, PDFs, add mp3 audio to make webinars or embed Youtube videos into them.
You can also import your 際際滷Share.net presentations into Facebook.
Video Channel - Integrate an entire You Tube channel into your page with this powerful app. Simple
content management system included.
Notes (Default App) Default App found on the right side of your profile. Add your RSS feed and view
your friends feeds. When your blog updates it shows the article in your feed.
Social RSS * This one can be in either a box on your profile or even better, its own tab on your profile.
RSS Graffiti - RSS Graffiti allows you to publish multiple RSS/ATOM feeds on your Facebook profile's &
pages' walls and automatically pushes them to the news-feeds (Facebook homepage) of your Facebook
friends & fans.
2. Business/Self Promotion
GLPrintBusinessCards A flashier business card; gives you options to create your digital business card.
IEndorse Testimonials are a great way to build the value of your company. This app allows Facebook
denizens to endorse your company or find it via the IEndorse business database.
My Business Blink Web Create a widget that promotes your business and that others can place on their
profiles. This basically turns your friends, clients, or customers into your advertisers.
Professional Profile Create a tab on your profile for all of your professional contacts, information, and
activities. Very useful if you want to separate the two sides of yourself.
Testimonials - Use Testimonials to gather your personal, professional and academic references in one
place from your teachers, friends, and co-workers.
Roost Social Media Toolkit - Roosts free Real Estate tab adds a local real estate section to your Facebook
pages in 3 easy steps. Includes residential property data, schools information, walk ability and more. You
can also brand this tab with your own company logo & links
Networking
Introductions If youre not good at meeting new people this app will help introduce you.
Social Fly Create notes about your online contacts, setup reminders to talk to them, and manage your
contacts. Great app for keeping up with business contacts.
BranchOut - BranchOut is the leading career networking tool on Facebook. If you're looking for a job,
have a lead for your friends, or just want to explore your friends' employers, BranchOut is for you. Branch
out, and discover the power of your network.
Collaboration
Huddle by WorkSpaces Store or share documents, make plans, collaborate on projects, and more (also
one of the LinkedIn apps).
My Office This virtual office will help get everyone on the same page by sharing documents, tasks and
more.
Retail/ecommerce
Payvment E-Commerce Storefront Launch a professional full-featured e-commerce storefront on
Facebook. Features built-in search enabling millions of Facebook users to discover your storefront and
products. Plus the storefront and shopping cart supports over 20 world currencies.
3. Marketplace - Buy, sell, and trade with your Friends, Friends-of-Friends, and the Facebook Community
ShopBuddy - ShopBuddy will take your shopping carts product feed and convert the data into a
Facebook friendly display of your shop, right on your business or personal Facebook page.
ShopTab - ShopTab is a Facebook App for online shops who want an easy and inexpensive way to get
products to show on a shop tab on a Facebook page. We created ShopTab to make that process very
easy so shop will show on your Facebook page with share tool.
eBay Selling Feed - This application enables eBay registered sellers to share the items that they are listing
on eBay via Facebook news-feeds with friends in their Facebook social networks.
Contests/Polls/Surveys
Contests - Contests for Fan Pages enables companies & agencies to easily create & launch branded
contests on Facebook Fan Pages within minutes. Available formats: Photo contests, video contests,
design contests, logo contests, essay-based contests.
Misc.
My Money This online banking app isnt very useful if youre a large business, but for small or single
owner businesses its just one more tool that can help make Facebook a more valuable business stop.
Page Maps Display a mini map (with links to larger maps) of where your business or favorite place to
have business meetings are.
Static FBML Add some advanced functionality to your Facebook Page by being able to render HTML or
FBML (Facebook Markup Language) on the page. Change the look and feel, and even add apps, forms,
and widgets from other places. This app was developed by Facebook, so its fully supported and not
prone to the problems of some third party applications.
Menutab - Display the Menu of your Restaurant on your Facebook page. Add Photos and choose your
Style.
Facebook Places - Facebook made a huge splash last week with the official announcement of Places, the
social networking site's stab at a mobile location-based feature similar to Foursquare and Gowalla.
While the feature is still being rolled out to everyone, the potentially huge significance for small
businesses is hard to miss. What makes Places so important is not so much the functionality (which
appears to be largely lifted from existing players), but rather the fact that it's being launched by
Facebook. With over 500 million users, who are automatically opted in to the new feature, it may well be
Facebook that pushes geolocation into the mainstream.