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Turn Your Facebook Photos Into Wristbands

In the past, we have brought you ways to add your Facebook photos to your real-life walls, and even to your shower curtains. Now you can add them to your wrists with BandAbout.

BandAbout allows you to create custom photographic wristbands featuring their Facebook photos and their friends’ profile pictures.

You can also add graphics, lettering, and non-Facebook images from your computer.

The bands are made of a waterproof, durable, and recyclable polyester material, complete with a clasp that allows wearers to easily put them on and take them off, and one band costs $4.99 with free shipping within the U.S.

Additional bands are available for $2.99 apiece, with the potential for volume discounts.

Users can go to the BandAbout website, drag-and-drop images into place, and add graphics and lettering.

More ideas from BandAbout include:

Customers can create a “circle of friends” using their friends’ profile photos, which they can wear for support, sharing, or just to bring a smile to their face throughout the day. Sports teams can assemble a band with the players’ images. People can create a band of vacation memories.

Our wristbands also offer fantastic new ways for brands on Facebook to make personal connections with their followers. We can make special branded content available to people who like a brand’s page.

Brands can offer custom wristbands that contain a combination of their content (logos, celebrity content, product photos, graphical background designs, etc.) from their Facebook page, combined with each customer’s own Facebook content.

We also have the ability to customize pricing and wristband layout to fit a brand’s specific marketing campaign.

Readers: Which pictures would you include on your BandAbout wristband?

7 Tools For Updating Facebook Timeline Pages, Profiles

Timeline has a way ofmaking pages with infrequent posts look more naked than they really are, making it more important than ever to post regularly. Here are seven ways to get this job done.

Use Facebook Directly

We’re about to discuss six different third-party tools for publishing to pages, but before we get into any of that, let’s talk about doing it directly on Facebook, inputting text and links in the status field. Here’s why it makes sense to do it this way:

1. The algorithm that determines post placement in Facebook’s news feed tends to lower the priority updates from third-party apps. That can limit engagement.
2. Facebook users can opt to hide updates made by third-party apps from their news feeds; however, the same pulldown menu for hiding posts by third party software also hide all updates from a particular page or profile.
3. While Facebook continues to adjust how it treats posts from third-party publishing apps, a large volume of updates from a single app will can result in aggregation of all that app’s posts in some people’s news feeds. The result: lower engagement.
4. Posting directly on Facebook is free of charge, whereas some of the third-party publishing applications have fees.

When You Should Use Third Party Tools

If there are good reasons not to use third-party tools, then why would you want to use them at all? The fact is, some will simply not want to go to Facebook on a regular basis and make updates. Using a third-party tool would be better than not updating your page at all.

With that in mind, here are six of the top tools that social media experts, brands, and agencies are using to update their pages. Keep in mind that most experts use these apps in addition to making updates on their Facebook page from Facebook itself.

Argyle Social

Argyle Social allows you to schedule and publish updates across top social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

You can also have your latest blog post automatically delivered to those social networks using your RSS feed. They even offer a way to brand your updates.

Instead of seeing that the update comes from Argyle Social, you can have your brand name appear instead with a link to your website.

Argyle Social includes a lot of additional features for enterprises and agencies, including analytics, social return on investment measurement, and collaboration options. Pricing starts at $300 per month.

Buffer

Unlike other platforms where you have to schedule each update at a specific time, Buffer allows you to set up a specific scheduling pattern.

Updates can be sent to your Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn accounts. You can use Buffer to update one Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn account for free with up to 10 updates scheduled at a time.

There’s also a pro plan for $10 per month that allows you to have up to six social media accounts and up to 50 scheduled updates or a premium plan for $99 per month that allows unlimited social media accounts and scheduled updates.

Dlvr.it

Dlvr.it allows you to add your blog feed to be updated on your Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Tumblr, StatusNet, and MySpace accounts.

Essentially, every time you publish a new post, it will be added to the social accounts you specified. It is a simple and free service to use to get your latest blog posts delivered to your social media accounts.

HootSuite

HootSuite allows you to schedule and publish updates across multiple social networks including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Ping.fm, WordPress, MySpace, and Foursquare. You can also add RSS feeds to your account to update your social networks when new posts are available from your own blog as well as others.

You can use HootSuite for free with up to five social profiles, or go with a Pro plan for $5.99 per month for unlimited social profiles, RSS feeds, and more.

Networked Blogs

NetworkedBlogs allows you to automatically update your Facebook and Twitter accounts. You will have to verify that you are the author of the blog by temporarily adding a widget to your blog or asking your friends to confirm that you are the author or owner.

Sprout Social

Sprout Social allows you to schedule and publish updates to your Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn accounts. You can also connect RSS feeds to your account and have them regularly update your social media networks when new content is available.

Sprout Social also includes influence and engagement monitoring on your social networks so you can see how influential you are.

Plans are $9 per month to manage up to 10 social profiles, $39 per month for 20 profiles, $59 per month for 40 profiles, and $899 per month for unlimited social profiles plus additional features.

Readers: Have you used any of the aforementioned third-party tools, or do you prefer to update your page directly?

Guest writer Kristi Hines blogs for KissMetrics.

7 Must-know sex secrets

Guys, here's your chance to know the seven sex secrets women wish their partner knew

A good talk is a great aphrodisiac
Many women find talk a great turn-on. For them, talking and feeling loved are very important. Good conversation during walks or while the couple is relaxing can be a great aphrodisiac. A man could tell his woman how much he loves her, which acts as a reassurance that he is with her mentally during those intimate moments.

Many women are anxious about their looks
For a couple that has been together for long, sometimes it is natural that women may feel that their partner may find them less alluring. Because of this some women undress only under the cover of darkness. Caring men can sense such anxieties. There is no need to lie and say she's gorgeous if she isn't, nor is there a need to say that she is not attractive anymore. One can always appreciate and praise what you do find attractive.

For a woman sex isn't separate from rest of her life
On the other hand, men tend to compartmentalise, feeling that stressful aspects of life can be parked mentally and separated from sexual activity. Women need good feelings and experiences during the day to have satisfying sex. How her lover treats her out of bed, greatly influences her response in bed. Inattentiveness, harsh language, rude tones, hurtful words, and criticism can make it difficult for a woman to get involved, feel enthusiastic and be passionate during sex.

An or*asm is not a necessity
Many men feel that a good lover is one who can bring his woman to climactic sexual culmination. It is great to have such moments, but aren't always essential. Many women feel pressure from partners and even from themselves to reach an or*asm. Sometimes instead of having orgasms, women prefer to engage in just for*play.

Sex need not be a serious act
Playfulness is a great quality. Many men are far too serious about sex. They forget to laugh, be romantically mischievous, have fun. Playfulness and light-heartedness can make intimate moments enjoyable and relaxing. This takes performance pressure off from both partners.

Women cherish non-sexual touching and tenderness
Women love romance, cuddling, hand-holding and kissing. But many women complain that their men never do this except during for*play. A woman should make her man realise the joy of touching. As you give him a relaxing massage and stroke his face and hair tenderly, he starts experiencing the joy of this kind of non-sexual touching. Tell your man what makes you feel loved.

Warm attention after sex is important
A woman's need for tender moments goes beyond the actual lovemaking. Some women complain that men fall asleep immediately after the act. It is true that when a man is having sex, his endorphin level is very high. Almost immediately after ejaculation, he goes through a refractory phase where he loses his erection and all his systems gear down. In females this phase happens gradually. However, if you don't like him falling asleep immediately, tell him without putting him down. Alternatively, let him sleep in your arms for a few minutes and gently wake him up afterwards.

(Dr Rajan B Bhonsle, consultant in sexual medicine and counselor)