My Second Book, Step by Step Facebook, Updated

Step by Step Facebook

Step by Step Facebook

I got hooked up at facebook because my editor wanted me to write a book about it. And here it this, my second book, Step by Step Facebook. Already in store from 20th January 2009 :p This book talks about how you can use facebook to leverage your networks of friends, relations, and clients. You can use it personally as your usual social networking site with more interesting features that makes you addicted. Or, you can use it professionally as a bridge to your clients, making your own community, and building your brand. You even can use facebook ads to promote your product or service with flexibility in terms of the cost. Paid it by cpm or per clicks.

This is book also reviewed how facebook revolutionized the world of social networking by barking in into new marketing ideas and open access that allowed other people (like you and me) to create applications on their platform, FBML and make money out of it. Even Barack Obama use it to revolutionized the way to do a presidency campaign. It a success indeed since now Obama is the president of USA. There are also many facts and criminal actions around facebook that not many people knows. You can get tips on how to protect your privacy as well.

Book Details

Step by Step Facebook
Publisher: Elex Media Komputindo
Editor: Whindy Yoevestian
Category: internet
Size: 14 x 21 cm
Pages: 222
ISBN: 9789792742497
Price: Rp 35800
Publish Date: 20 January 2009
Target Readers: social networking users,  internet user, college students, everyone

Order & information, contact:
GRAMEDIA DIRECT
Ph.
(62-21) 536 50 110 / 111 ext. 3901 / 3902
Email: cs@gramediapublishers.com
Online Service: www.gramediashop.com
Suggestion & Complain: keluhan@gramediapublishers.com

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Ph. (62-31) 841 2913
contact us

You can buy the book online here and other book stores and Gramedia:

http://gramediashop.com/book/detail/9789792742497 – 25% off

You can download the Free Step by Step Facebook Sample Chapter here.

*Update

  • This book has been reprinted for second edition on February 2009, only one month from its first print. Get the new edition with new tips like how to hide yourself when you’re login to facebook and to change your profile layout.
  • Got reprinted again for the 3rd time this March 2009. Around 5000 prints is out for sale ^^
  • Book of the month for March 2009
  • Got reprinted for 5 times in a row since January 2009. That means reprinted for every month. Around 4000 books had been sold out
  • Broke sales record of 2000 book a month on April 2009 for computer books at Elex Media Komputindo.
  • Biggest sales for computer books at 72 out of around 80 Gramedia book stores all across Indonesia for March 2009.

Thank you to all the readers for the support :)

Synopsis (English ver)
The first time you open facebook web, you might not impressed. The desain is plain and simple. Then, why a book about it? Because facebook manage to make over 100 million people and counting all over the world addicted. This number can make facebook listed on the 12th after Mexico and above Philippine on the list of most populated countries in the world. Ok, why is it necessary to talk about a site that makes people addicted and play around wasting time? You see school and offices banned sites like facebook. However, the entertainment is only one of the side that facebook have to offer.

If it’s useless then why people like Bill Gates and Hermawan Kartajaya add the long list of facebook users? Aren’t they busy and important people that can’t waste their time? This book is written to help you get the answers, which is the true values that facebook has to offer. That even helped Barack Obama successfully get the most powerful seat on USA.

You will be guide to use standard networking site features like manage your profile, add photos and videos, find friends, add applications, join groups, send messages, chatting, and other stuffs. It also give you advanced tricks like accessing your facebook from your computer using third party application, accessing using your mobile device, how to get through proxy ban, how to save time on facebook, make your profile more interesting, and many more.

Find facebook sides that not many people realize. Facebook as a marketing tool that help reach your customer. As an advertising media, build your brand, or even to “sell” yourself. Know the dark side of facebook so you can avoid frauds and privacy violation from your personal information. There are many tips you can use to protect yourself by managing how much information you release to public and avoid fake profiles. You get to know interesting facts about facebook, like you can apply as a secret agent for MIS at facebook. Hopefully, after reading this you will see networking sites with a different point of view.

So what are you waiting for? Let’s get together at facebook.

Here are some previous comments from the readers, taken from the old blog:

Hunvrey said…
What a scary book, it reveals almost everything in facebook. Any good and dangerous thing in facebook is shown here. And teach us what we must do and don’t. It’s a good reading

Bukunya juga ditujukan untuk semua tingkatan, mulai dari pemula (like me), sampe ke tingkat mahir.

Keep writing…

retsu782000 said…
Thank for the support Rest a sure there will be more books coming up >:D

Pipin said…
Step by step facebook.. hmmm buku yang bagus. Isinya jelasin step by step cara pake facebook mulai dari cara pake yang basic, cara pake aplikasi-aplikasinya, sampe cara pake fitur iklan. Yang membuat buku ini lebih menarik itu, ada fakta-fakta facebook yang selama ini gak disadari. Ini jadi nilai plus untuk menambah pengetahuan kita untuk social networking.. Recommend deh tuk neh buku. Good luck !!

retsu782000 said…
Thanks for the complement Pin. I tried to make the book different from other books that were on the same subject and hope it will give people a different view about social networking sites especially facebook. Not just using it for fun, but for the benefits that comes with it and also realize the danger from “opening” your private information on the internet.

Anonymous said…
Buku ini membuat saya makin tertarik memakai Facebook, dari yang sebelumnya tidak peduli sama sekali dengan Facebook (^^)v

Thank you untuk petunjuk step by stepnya, memudahkan pemula untuk memakai Facebook.

Sukses slalu….

Hadi

Anonymous said…
Buku ini membantu saya mengetahui banyak aplikasi yang dibuat pihak ketiga untuk facebook.

Terus berkarya,
Setiadi

retsu782000 said…
Terima kasih komentarnya. Dalam waktu dekat ini buku ini akan dicetak edisi keduanya yang ditambahkan trik untuk merubah layout profile facebook dan merahasiakan keberadaan Anda ketika sedang login di facebook. Terima kasih untuk dukungan Anda para pembaca

rulyna said…
Great book! Awalnya aku pikir isinya semua yg udah aku tau tentang facebook. Tapi setelah baca ternyata ada teknologi facebook yg belum aku tau. Ditambah lagi dengan isu2 dan cara bermain facebook yg secure membuat buku ini jadi menarik. Keep writting ya

Anonymous said…
wah… aku baru baca 1/2 dari buku ini… tadinya baca buat iseng2 ajah mumpung lagi bosen… karena kupikir facebook itu gampang…
tapi baru baca sekitar 1/2 buku.. ternyata banyak hal yang belum saya ketahui >.<

tapi kalo boleh saran… gimana kalo langkahnya step by step soalnya ada beberapa gambar yang tidak diberitahu munculnya darimana… misalnya kyk setting profile… di halaman brapa gitu.. gak inget >.<

retsu782000 said…
Halo.. Kalau boleh tahu yang tidak jelas itu di halaman berapa? Nanti saya lihat kembali. Thanks for commenting..

D’s Zone said…
Thanks Mb’ Restu Kurniali…a good reading books. Share knowledge and really useful for beginner…just like me:)Aq uda baca yg edisi revisi.

Dipaparkan Tips and Triks’ny, How to keep secure at Fb n more information.

Satu lagi nie Mb’ Sartika…aq pngen nanya gimana cara’ny hapus konten yang berada di sebelah kanan pojok atas waktu buka beranda…aq udah cb..tp cm bs dipindah – pindah…soal’ny disitu tb2 muncul konten tambahan spt applikasi awards, dan sejenis’ny…dari tmn2.
pls ur help.

Thnx b4.
Diah

retsu782000 said…
Halo Mba D’s Zone

Nama saya Sartika Kurniali. Retsu itu cuma nickname aja di inet. Kenapa pada salah dengan Restu ya?

Saya pakai bahasa Inggris di fb, jadi ng tahu beranda itu apa. Kalau bisa kirimkan saja screen shotnya ke alamat saya

Rhoma Irama II said…
I read an article about don’t break your relationship on Facebook. It’s a funny thing but really exist on the real world. I’ve just got an invitation for Facebook seminar on Matraman. Good luck!

retsu782000 said…
Yep.. The rule of not “revealing too much of your self” also works on facebook.

Thanks. I hope it will gain more audience than the previous talkshow at Gramedia, Ciputra Mall.

Bimo’s House said…
Good..

Bagus mba tika. Keep writting …

Ni saya, yg ada di fb.
Ada salam dari papa. Hehehe… Bagus bukunya . Sip.

tezar said…
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tezar said…
buku yang menarik, tak hanya mengulas bagaimana punya account di facebook, tapi kita jadi tahu “seluk beluk” facebook, sampai cerita tentang Bill Gates dengan facebook.
Buku yang patut diacungi jempol deh ^-^

retsu782000 said…
Thank you for the support Bimo and Tezar….

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