Handy Facebook Tips and Tricks for Ning Managers
Facebook Trick #1Download Facebook Videos Quickly for Reuse on Youtube or NingThe trick mentioned above-although it still works- is steadily becoming more of a time-suck than anything, but that doesn't mean you can't use Facebook videos to illuminate your network. There's an app for that. Facebookvideoz will help you download the videos you need to make the magic happen! Facebook Trick #2How to Invite All Friends to a Facebook EventSetting up an event on Facebook is one thing, but using an event to drive targeted traffic is another. You may set up an event for the launch of your 3.0 network or simply an online community event or gathering. If you wanna invite all of your friends to it- thus bringing attention to your network- here is how you do it:
By making sure that you mention and point to your network in the event description, you can draw much needed attention to your site Facebook Trick #3Hide Your Last Name on a Facebook Profile
As always, if you need my help, just let me know. Enjoy! | Embed Facebook Videos Into Your Ning with this HackAs we all know, ning has made It quite simple to embed Youtube videos, but how (you might ask yourself) can you embed Facebook videos on your ning network. Facebook videos have links to share the Facebook video on your wall or to your friends wall, but does not provide an embed code. Well, today I'm going to show you how to hack a facebook video url and embed facebook videos into your ning network using either the video embed option or the inline video embed feature within a text box. Here is how to do it.
*additional hack to shortcut much of this at bottom of this post (for slow internet connections) 1. Find a Facebook Video which is relevant to your ning...go to its page.When you are viewing a Facebook video in your news feed / profile and reach the end, these are the options offered.
Click on the “Go to Video” link and you are directed to the Facebook video page. 2. Find and Edit Facebook Video UrlNow look at the long url address in the browser location bar. It will look something like this http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=123456789012345 (not a real video) This is what the url of the Facebook video page looks like and cannot be embedded. We have to edit and shorten this url to get the actual Facebook video url to embed. So this is the shorter url we need (note the changes, number stays same) http://www.facebook.com/v/123456789012345 2. Make the Facebook Video Embed CodeIf you look at the old style embed code for any Youtube video, you find it looks like this
This is a standard embed code for shockwave flash video. I have highlighted the embedded youtube urls. Now replace those youtube urls with the Facebook urls.
Paste in html mode in your post, and your Facebook video is embedded! Enjoy! You can see a live example working on my land surveyors network here: It even retains the cook facebook overlay...remember to copy the title and description of the video from the facebook page to paste in the fields on your ning.
Enjoy!
now for the additional hack... some people just do not watch videos all the way through....so here's how you get the url without having to watch the video:...if you are looking at a facebook video inline (on your wall feed), simplyright click on the textlinked title of the video and copy URL. paste it into a text file, delete all the unnecesssary characters in that url as explained above...paste that URL into the embed code you're making and get the same result...
now for the obvious.... IMPORTANT NOTE: All Facebook videos are NOT in the public domain. Videos posted by Facebook users maybe copyrighted, personal, private, and may NOT be permitted for distribution or illegal to use without permission. So before you go ahead and embed any Facebook video, ALWAYS seek permission from the video owner / creator. |