Patrick Powers

While most people care about the information they choose to share online, they don’t care too much about Facebook’s move to make more of that information public — at least not enough to ditch the social media network altogether. This care-but-don’t-care attitude was the general sentiment at a great Social Media Club of St. Louis [...]

If there’s one thing brothers are good for, it’s for putting you in your place. Minutes after coding a Facebook “like” button into this blog, I received the following message regarding my apparent narcissism: The way Facebook built it, liking someone (or something) is as easy as clicking a button. The benefits are greater exposure [...]

TIME recently released its annual “TIME 100,” a list of 100 names of those who most influence the world around us. The magazine lumps the list into some obvious categories such as leaders, heroes, artists and thinkers. It also added a new one this year — social networking. It’s this last category that piqued my [...]

Every fan page created in Facebook starts out the same. There’s a wall, info, discussion, events and maybe some photos. But who wants more of the same? It only takes a few tweaks to transform a standard-issue Facebook page into something better. The opportunities are there, yet many (me included) regularly fail to tap those [...]

Its been nearly a year now, but one of my favorite Facebook features remains the customizable URL. I’m always stumped at why more people don’t take advantage of it. Is it because they want their Facebook presence to be as hard to find as possible? Perhaps they’re particularly attached the randomly generated characters? Whatever the reason, [...]

More than once I’ve been asked to set up a Facebook group when a page might be more appropriate. I’ve also been asked to create a page when a group would be a better fit. So what’s the difference, they’re both on Facebook, right? Well, yes, Facebook offers opportunities for users to create both groups and [...]