Getting Into Groups On Facebook
This years Thirty Day Challenge pre-season training has just started. Sign up right now by entering your name and email address in the boxes below.
Hopefully by now, a lot of you have organized yourself into teams for the challenge, and if you have then you should watch this video I just made which shows you how to use Facebook groups to communicate with your other team members.
Download the super dooper hi-quality version
Even if you are not in a team you should Facebook and join the Thirty Day Challenge Group and add Ed and myself as friends
Links:
Facebook - Dan’s Profile - Ed’s Profile - Thirty Day Challenge Group
July 29th, 2007 at 7:27 am
Thanks Dan,
I was wondering how we were going to use FaceBook.
July 29th, 2007 at 9:56 am
Hi Dan,
Not sure if it’s just me but the sound level is so low I can’t make out what you’re saying even when I have the volume up to 100% on the video app and on my speakers.
Cheers,
David
July 29th, 2007 at 10:05 am
Same as above, volume is too low to hear. I hope I don’t require facebook, I don’t need to join. Thanks
July 29th, 2007 at 10:12 am
Volume fine for me, but I was using headphones. Might make a difference?
Lisa
July 29th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
OK, just downloaded the mp4 to my pda and the sound through headphones is perfect
July 29th, 2007 at 3:01 pm
Yeah, the sound volume is awful for anyone trying to listen on computer, even with headpuones. Dan will fix, i’m sure.
To get it into iTunes, download the super high quality file (and remember where it downloads to.) Then open iTunes, select File > Add File to Library, browse to the facebookgroups.mp4 file, and click Open. iTunes will add it. Then in iTunes, under Library, click on Movies. You should see a thumbnail of the video in your Movies window. Select it, and double-click on the video at the bottom of the navigation bar on the left.
July 29th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
Dan,
I’m sending my 30DC Team an invitation read and sign up for FaceBook, but I’m not seeing exactly how you can take my profile URL and create that as a friend. Can you give us a bit more detail?
Thanks!
-Don
July 29th, 2007 at 7:07 pm
Dan,
I’ve tried everything but cannot hear you, sorry can it be fixed.
Cheers
Alan
July 29th, 2007 at 8:09 pm
Dan,
Here are a couple of FaceBook addons for firefox that might be useful. By the way thanks for all the hard behind the scenes work that you are doing!
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3794
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3855
Kind Regards,
Tim
July 29th, 2007 at 9:18 pm
Funny - I have no problem
Make sure you have the little volume control in the bottom right hand corner of the video turned up
Ed
July 30th, 2007 at 12:22 am
Thanks Dan
Volume was fine with me. A bit low till I adjusted it on the computer.
I have never used Facebook before but I am signed up and ready to go. From what I have seen so far I think I am going to like it.
Smiles :o)
Gary
July 30th, 2007 at 12:36 am
I have to say that I signed up (reluctantly) on facebook about a month ago, and have really gotten a kick out of it. It harvested my email accounts for me so I could see if I had any contacts on facebook already, then I was up and running renewing old friendships and acquaintances, one of which turned into direct business. Cool! I think this Internet thing might just take off
July 30th, 2007 at 2:59 am
Video was fab thank you - that’s very very useful!
Volume was low - as was Ed’s last video
Had to have my volume (on my wizzy Mac) up to full on the main computer to hear it.
Caro
July 30th, 2007 at 3:34 am
Hi Dan,
Same problem with the audio for me too … had volume slider in bottom right all the way up … couldn’t hear much. I had to turn my pc speakers so far up they were buzzing
July 30th, 2007 at 6:29 am
Hi Dan
Same as the above. I can barely hear you. Will you be recording this segment again?
Chantal
July 30th, 2007 at 6:52 am
Sorry about the volume everyone, very wierd.
Dan
July 30th, 2007 at 7:37 am
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July 30th, 2007 at 8:37 am
Dan,
Great video, I can see how facebook is going to get alot people involved with this 30 day challenge. You can never have too many friends. I can hear great. I was using ipod ear buds and sound was great. I will start my facebook profile and get set up. Thanks again.
July 30th, 2007 at 10:28 am
I tried everything, from adjusting the volume on the player, to the computer, to master volume control, and it was still very hard to hear until I used headphones and played it through iTunes. Excellent video instruction, though! Thanks Dan.
July 30th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
Hi Dan,
Looking forward to using Facebook. Amazing to think we can network with people all over the world.
Cheers
Catherine
July 30th, 2007 at 7:13 pm
Wow! You guys are lucky. I got maybe three minutes of very low volume audio spit out at random intervals before the video locked up. Also, I received less than a minute of play on the sign up intro video.
I think I am going to have to punt since I am on dial up in the high desert of California and have make believe support from PC Direct. We are beyond postal service and high speed. Maybe Dan has some magic I can use.
Jerry
July 30th, 2007 at 7:57 pm
I have all volume settings at highest possible and still not understand what’s being said. I’m going to try Beth Agnew’s suggestion. If that doesn’t solve it …. Also, ALL of the videos stop every few words (not sentences). I downloaded the ‘high quality’ and even restarted my computer and still have these problems. Joan
July 30th, 2007 at 10:18 pm
Dan I could barely hear it sound but the video was great. Thanks Reggie
July 30th, 2007 at 10:31 pm
Volume is low for me too. I have have no problems with any other videos but have
always had problems hearing Ed even his Simple videos too, and all the rest were fine.
I must be missing something as you refer to getting us up & ready to go & downloading things to the browser, I don’t see to find these instructions. Can someone tell me where I can find them?
Thanks, Coretta
July 30th, 2007 at 11:44 pm
If all ages are welcome, how do young people use Facebook for this? After all, Facebook requires as part of its terms of service, that a member be at least 13 years old AND in high school or college. So if a 13 or 14 year old is in middle school or someone is younger than 13, they cannot join Facebook. What do we do with those individuals?
August 3rd, 2007 at 5:06 pm
Volume was fine for me. Anyone know how many freinds you can add at a time? I think I added 60 and got locked out of adding freinds.
August 4th, 2007 at 9:42 am
no problem here all good dan.
August 4th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
Great, helpful info. Dan…thank you. I have not yet added you and Ed as friends or joined TDC group yet, but am looking forward to doing that this weekend.
August 17th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
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December 2nd, 2007 at 6:45 pm
Hope Dan will send out an email when the sound is fixed. I can barely hear this.
December 28th, 2007 at 10:05 pm
can you repost this one with a higher volume?
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March 5th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
The volume is fine now. And a very useful video. I must admit (since I’ve been using FB for some time now) I thought the information would not be useful… but (yes, you guessed) there were features to the ‘Create Groups’ section that I had not fully explored. RTFM would be appropriate if FB had a FM!
Thanks again for a great video… and for allowing new folk to see them again at this late stage - looking forward to tomorrow’s edition.
Harrison
August 27th, 2008 at 8:17 am
Cool. Kinda quiet on the voice, but cool. Yeah, I’m very familiar with Facebook and all the others… not quite sure how we’ll be applying it to 30DC, though - maybe I should watch it again