I have recently been experimenting with
Facebook
Fan Pages. This is a Facebook web page not for an individual or a
membership group but rather in support of a cause or organization. The
instructions imply that these pages are often used for celebrities,
bands or businesses. It seems to me to be a good way to provide pointers
and basic information without too much structure.
I have created two fan pages:
SEED Engineering Mentoring Program. This has 37 fans so far. I added links to
the new Sun Labs technical report
“Sun Mentoring: 1996-2009” and to
Katysblog and welcome ideas of what else fits.
Young at Heart, Children’s Worship Service for St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church (Saratoga, California). This has 8 fans so far. Some of the photos I took for that
page:
I am still working out how best to set up a Facebook Fan Page, playing
with the options and reading through tutorials, like
How to: Create a Facebook Fan Page and
5 Elements of a Successful Facebook Fan Page and
Facebook Group vs Facebook Fan Page: What’s Better?. My biggest problem so far is that Facebook’s Search is good for people but not so much for not-people (group, cause, business, organization names). The people I usually ask for advice on
new tools say they have never created a fan page either. So, I am now the
expert (scary thought)! Still working on it…
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