Facebook Me! A Guide to Having Fun with Your Friends and Promoting Your Projects on Facebook [Paperback]

Dave Awl (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 16, 2009 | ISBN-10: 032159195X | ISBN-13: 978-0321591951 | Edition: 1

So you’ve heard about Facebook—maybe your friends have invited you to join or it’s the hot topic around the water cooler—but you’re not sure what it’s all about. Relax and join in. There are more than 110 million members of Facebook these days, and adults are the fastest-growing segment of users. And it’s about more than just kid stuff; Facebook can actually be a good business tool as well as a great way to promote creative projects. In Facebook Me! Dave Awl shows you around the newly redesigned Facebook and helps you take full advantage of all it has to offer, while helping you avoid some of its pitfalls.

• Find out what you can do on Facebook, and what it can do for you. Reconnect with old friends and make new ones, let your friends know what you’re up to, send greetings, share photos or video, or just goof around with applications like SuperPoke.

• Learn Facebook etiquette: how and why to friend someone, how to socialize politely, and whether to friend your boss.

• Publicize your projects, business, or causes: Post to your Wall, set up a Page, put up a Marketplace listing, or invite friends to Events.

Look for the official Facebook Me! Group on Facebook, to connect with the author and other readers of this book.

Editorial Reviews

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“No better Virgil than Dave Awl when it comes to orienting the uninitiated to this strange and many-circled world of Facebook.”
—Ayun Halliday, author of No Touch Monkey! And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late

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"No better Virgil than Dave Awl when it comes to orienting the uninitiated to this strange and many-circled world of Facebook." --Ayun Halliday, author of No Touch Monkey! And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late

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Product Details

• Paperback: 216 pages
• Publisher: Peachpit Press; 1 edition (February 16, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 032159195X
• ISBN-13: 978-0321591951
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #675,938 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Dave Awl is a Chicago-based writer and performer. As a tech writer and social media aficionado, he's the author of Facebook Me! A Guide to Having Fun with Your Friends and Promoting Your Projects on Facebook and a regular contributor to The Adobe Illustrator Wow! Book (both from Peachpit Press), and has written about LinkedIn for CreativePro.com.

As a Chicago-based poet, playwright, and fringe theater performer, Dave is an alumnus of Chicago's popular Neo-Futurists theater company, and has appeared on NPR's This American Life. His scripts have been included in three book collections of material from the long-running original show Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, and his work has been performed in high school, college, and regional theater productions across the country. He was the editor for the most recent book collection of Neo-Futurist scripts, entitled 200 More Neo-Futurist Plays.

In 2002, a book collection of Dave's writing was published under the title What the Sea Means: Poems, Stories & Monologues, 1987-2002 (Hope and Nonthings Publishing).

Dave's poetry and short fiction have been published in After Hours magazine, Milk Magazine, and Blithe House Quarterly. In addition to his work with the Neo-Futurists, he founded the Pansy Kings performance series, has performed with Theater Oobleck and Tellin' Tales Theater, and currently hosts a cabaret variety show called The Partly Dave Show.