At the Disney Social Media Moms, we were excited to hear from Matt Jacobson, director of Market Development at Facebook. Yes, as in Facebook, the company. He was the 8th employee of Facebook in the early days. He gave us some tips and “Best Practices” for getting the most out of Facebook.

Current Facebook Trends

Trends we are seeing today, as far as Facebook, Moms, and Brands:

• Globally, borders are being replaced with connections
• Brands are building connections through moms
• 92% of moms use FB to check what family and friends are doing
  50% of moms on FB find out about brands and companies through their friends on FB

How can Bloggers Use Facebook?

Advice from Matt Jacobson for best use of FB for bloggers. Here are some steps to build your brand on FB:

• Create a page and import your blog feed.
• Use social plugins: Like Button, Like Box, etc. There’s  a Like Box over there?  See? Go ahead and Click “Like!”  —————————————>>
• Advertise to target new moms and build your business
• Use insight tools

Managing your personal and professional identities on Facebook

Make a plan to manage your personal and professional identities as a blogger on Facebook :

• Create a page and a profile for different audiences or friend groups. If you direct blog followers to your professional page, it removes the awkwardness of having to reject friend requests.  Just say, “Connect with me here.”

• Control Privacy settings with friend groups. You can set the levels for each group of friends, so you don’t have to get too personal with everyone.

Share your stories!

If you have a really cool or inspirational story involving Facebook, you can tell your stories on the Facebook Stories Page: www.stories.facebook.com

There is a wonderful story of giving, started by one woman on Facebook at the 93 Dollar Club

Find New Information about Facebook Updates

Best places to find new information about Facebook, and stay up on all the changes.

• Inside Facebook
• Tech Crunch
• The New FB developers wiki

What’s Coming Soon?

We hear tell, From Matt, himself, that there will soon be a new Deals Program (like groupon) coming up!

What are YOUR favorite Facebook Tips?

Want to see some of the Q and A after Matt Jacobsons’s Disney Social Media Moms 2011 on video? Head over to my friend Emily from ColoradoMoms.com.

Welcome to the second installment of “Ask a Mom Blogger!”  Our weekly advice column for bloggers, where we can share our tips, tricks, and how-to information with each other! Each Thursday, I’ll post a reader question and we can go to town in the comments! Last week, we talked about how to get more traffic to your blog.

Today’s question comes from Lindsey at Campfire Song:

What makes an awesome blog design?

So what would YOU tell Lindsey about good blog design? So give us your advice in the comments below. Reading this in a RSS Reader? Click here to comment

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Ask a Mom Blogger

Click here to submit a question to our column, posted on Thursday each week.

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Yesterday, I was inspired by Stacie to start an advice column of sorts.  Not that I have all the answers, but the best thing about a BLOG advice column is that we can get lots of answers in the comments from a variety of different people!

Our first question comes from Wendy from Living Water… From Within.

How do I get more blog traffic?

I was once told that the way to do that is to visit other blogs and comment, comment, comment. But that seems fake…I’m here so you’ll visit me?? Let’s face it we’re all crazy busy and I don’t have precious time to waste on fake.

Help?

So give us your advice in the comments below. What are your blog traffic strategies? Reading this in a RSS Reader? Click here to comment

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Ask a Mom Blogger

Click here to submit a question to our column, posted on Thursday each week.

The blogging moms community is one of the most innovative, creative, generous communities I’ve ever known.  Yes, we can have our quirks, but usually, we are all about sharing information with each other, lifting each other up.  So I’d like to create an environment to do that here at Real Life Blog, ask for information if we need it, share it if we have it.  Kinda like those penny jars at the gas station, right?

I was inspired by Stacie, AKA The Divine Miss Mommy. She has started a series called Modern Manners Monday, where moms can ask questions regarding manners, and others can chime in with their advice.  For example, this week’s question is how to deal with tattle tales.

Each Thursday, I will post a question from a Mom Blogger about Blogging, Vlogging, Social Media, etc. Everyone can chime in with her advice in the comments!

I think this will be a fantastic way to build community, and get our questions answered.  Questions can be from beginning, to advanced, or anywhere in between.

Here’s the form to ask a question! If you can’t see the form below, click here.

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If you’re launching a new product — or even just putting new energy into an old product — the holy grail of marketing is a hearty endorsement from a popular independent blogger.

But how do you do that? What can you as a marketer do to get bloggers talking about your product?

In the video below, Sarah Pinnix (@RealLifeSarah on Twitter), a popular and prolific independent blogger based in Boone, NC, explains.

Read the rest of the post here.