This is the latest social widget for Facebook Fan page. Fan Box can turn your Web visitors into fans. It is meant to be put on the blog or Web site of brands, celebrities and local businesses with a Facebook page. If it is your case, you should test the Fan Box widget to see if it brings you more new fans than your actual Become a Fan link.

Any Facebook page administrator will not have any problem installing this Facebook Connect-enabled social widget to their existing Web site or blog. You can simply display a Become a Fan button but I feel the widget gets more social when you add the profile image of your fans and/or the stream of your recent posts. The fans that will be shown are randomly selected each time the Fan Box is published. The link underneath the Fan Box leads to your fan page on Facebook.

How to Install It?

It is super easy to do. You generate the code to add to your Web site via Facebook. The interface could not be simpler.

You can custom the number of rows of fans to be published by entering a multiple of 5 as the parameter for connections. You change that information from the code generated by Facebook before pasting it into your Web site HTML page. Two rows (10 connections) is the default. Two rows creates a widget  that will be 265 pixels tall.

The default width is 300 pixels but you can adjust it. Notice the widget must be at least 200 pixels wide and 64 pixels tall in its simplest form. If you do not wish to use the recommended Javascript, click on Advanced Options for the iframe code.

You can supply the generated code to an ad server if you wish. That is what we did for At Home with Kim Vallee.

To generate the code to add to your Web site, simply click on the Add Fan Box to your Site that is now available on the links after your Page’s profile picture. So far, several big names have implemented the Fan Box widget on their site including the World World Fund and Lance Armstrong/Livestrong.

If you used the Facebook Fab Box widget as a fan or a page administrator, can you comment on your experience?

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