Having recently embedded a YouTube clip into a web site I was working on using the neat bit of HTML5 code below:

<iframe class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="207" widt=”289” src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/57pczWFtS0U" type="text/html" width="289"></iframe>

I was frustrated to find that when I went to view the video clip on my web page it was causing a problem with my pop up image gallery by appearing in front of all the images that popped up.  I immediately thought I was going to have to start digging deep into the depths of my style sheets and hunt out the relevant z-indexes when I came across the fantastic quick fix below:

Simply add 

?wmode=opaque

To the end of your video clip url and hey presto your problem is solved. 

URL Before

http://www.youtube.com/embed/YourYouTubeClipReference

Url After

This may sound like a silly question but it is not obvious how to find a list of the Facebook business pages you have "liked" - so try this:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/browser.php

and click on "My Pages" (top right) and...there they all are, my favourite pages all together!  Oh joy!

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Welcome to the first of our new blog series on Social Media – without a doubt backing up Facebook and Twitter is the place to start.

Anyone who has spent hours nurturing and tenderly building up their followers will know just what a labour of love it can be, so just imagine how devastating it would be if you were to lose all that hard work.  

Backing up data is always an area that individuals and business overlook or do not place enough importance on. These days there really is no excuse for this, as more and more software developers and platforms like Facebook and Twitter are making it increasingly easy to perform regular back ups.

This blog will tell you how to back up your Facebook & Twitter accounts, but do not stop there, if necessary review all your current back up policies. You may be pleasantly surprised just how easy this essential business task has become.

Facebook Back Up

Login to your Facebook Account On the top right hand corner drop down menu go to: Account > Account Settings

To the right of the list item Download your information click: Learn more

You will see the screen below, once you have read the important information click:  Download

You will get a pop up box with another short message again click:  Download

You will then get a message advising you that you will receive an email when your Facebook archive file is ready to download. This could take a while, so do not panic. When you receive the email, you will be asked to verify your identify using your Facebook login details and then you will be able to download the file.

And that is it.

Twitter Back Up

At the time of writing Twitter have not released their own back up function, but there are a number of third party services that you can use such as Tweetake and Tweetbackup. Below is my experience with Tweetake:

Tweetake - Gives you the option to back up the following:

• Followers
• Friends
• Favorites
• Your Tweets
• Direct Message
• All the above

It is simple and free to use and you can sign in using your Twitter login, so no need to sign up. I have experienced problems when accessing the service using Google Chrome, but it worked ok (if a little slow) in FireFox and worked best in Internet Explorer. Although with all browsers I got a message saying that there was a problem with my email or password but I was given the opportunity to still back up and download the file.

The download file is a csv file that can be opened in excel.

As I mentioned earlier there are other free services such as Tweetbackup available, or if you only want to back up your tweets and not your friends and followers you can use something like TweetSaver.