Want to get your questions answered by Lady Gaga, Selena Gomez, Rhianna, or Taylor Swift? I don’t, but if you are one of the millions of people who follow celebrities, you can watch the American Music Awards pre-show live on Facebook this Sunday. The “Official AMA Pre-Show” will feature hosts Julie Moran, Jenni Pulos, Jai Rodriguez, Taryn Southern. Don’t forget Facebook’s own Randi Zuckerberg and Communications Director Brandee Barker, who will also be featured hosts of the event.
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This is Day 14 of the 30 Days to 3,000 Fans program. You can learn more about the program here.
Success in a socially networked world comes through building relationships with others. As I wrote on day 8, leading conversations on your page is extremely important. The same thing goes for the offline world. One of the best things you can do for building your company’s reputation is to host offline events. For hosting the event there are a few things to keep in mind but the most important is that you already have a large enough reach that you’ll be able to get attendees to come to your event. Given that you at a minimum have a few hundred fans after your initial efforts, you should have a great start to building buzz about your new event. Today I’m going to walk you through the important steps necessary to hosting a successful event.
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Facebook has publicly stated their intent to launch a payments platform and have even begun testing it with multiple application developers but one area where they’ve yet to integrate is their own products. While the company has tested a system which enables users to send credits, nothing has been released since those initial tests. One area where we see a ton of potential is Facebook events, which has become one of Facebook’s most popular applications.
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A few weeks ago we announced the first speakers for this year’s Social Ad Summit. Today I wanted to announced a second batch of speakers and also state that we’ve decided to open up registration. The primary reason for opening registration is that managing the invites while blogging and planning the conference was getting a bit overwhelming. We’ve actually had a large volume of invite requests (close to 1,000) but filtering through them was getting to be a task.
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Last night it appears that Facebook decided to switch the way that guest lists are now viewed for individual events. Previously, you would have to click through individual pages to see who was attending an event. Frequently, deciding whether or not to attend an event is based on who will be in attendance. That’s why the guest list is one of the most visited sections of any event.
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Another case of the long arm of the law reaching into Facebook. Two were arrested in Gatson County, North Carolina after a party posted on Facebook led to the police raiding the party and charging two adults present for underage drinking, according to WCNC.

Steve Haney, Jr. and Melissa Wilson, the home owners, were reportedly home during a party planned and posted on Facebook, where alcohol was provided. So what tipped off the police in the first place?
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