Rebecca Rivera's List: Facebook

The Facebook Timeline that brand pages were forced to switch over to last week is "flawed," according to an eye movement study of six brand pages by SimpleUsability, with many of the new features going unnoticed or being misunderstood.

"The average user doesn't fully understand the new layout, or interact with it in the way intended," said Guy Redwood, managing director of SimpleUsability. "This will likely change over time, but as the mechanics of obtaining 'Likes' has become more difficult for brands, they now need to drive engagement more than ever."

The study tracked user eye movements when visiting the Web-based brand pages of American Express, Pizza Hut, Coca-Cola, Gap, Coldplay and Manchester United. In addition to pointing out problems with brand pages, the study found certain features on the pages as currently designed were more important.

Below are some must know tips as well as loads of Facebook reference urls at the bottom to hopefully save you some time in case you get stuck or have further questions.

Note, there are more changes than what I included in this blog post. For this post I tried to keep it specifically focused on the "need to know" changes.

Content Marketing Institute article explores the differences and similarities between small and large businesses sharing the same industry. In particular, what can the small-business marketer learn from its large-business counterparts.

Full guide to using Facebook as a blogger.

Facebook's latest ad guidelines for marketers

Intl demos according to Inside Facebook, as gleaned by Scott Monty