Comments on: Facebook Pages for Your Business, Library, or School

By: David

David — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 11:30:30 +0000

I agree that the new Facebook pages provide a nice way to communicate with your fan-base and to learn of cool places and businesses from people you trust - your friends. I’ve been working on a facebook application for Wi-Fi HotSpots whereby you (the HotSpot owner) and your (profile) friends get automatically logged in. It was easy enough to extend the application to work with pages too - using the (very nice) Facebook platform. You might find this application useful in your library or school. Thus far, I think Facebook has done a very good job with their platform - even if they do update it often and have bugs as a result. At least they seem to fix problems quickly and be mindful of privacy along the way.

By: Jo Alcock

Jo Alcock — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:03:24 +0000

I’m really excited by this too.

I tried it out with my boyfriend’s company to see what it was like but couldn’t work out how to add more admin, however they seem to have updated the system again since I last looked and you can now do this. I’m hoping to set up a page for our library but I need to get permission first.

I think this could really be a great way of updating our students, a quick wander round any of our IT suites tells me that a LOT of students use FaceBook on a regular basis. Fingers crossed we can set up a page!

By: Mari Smith

Mari Smith — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 05:54:07 +0000

Me too on the Group (non) activity! There seems to be a certain psychology behind joining FB Groups just to say, “Hey, this is something I support and want my community to know about.” Then, it’s a case of “Next!!”

But, with FB Pages - hmmm, I’m waiting with bated breath to see the impact. I’m not sure how much of a “fan-sumer” I want to be… I could probably count on one (maybe two!) hands the businesses I’d want my community to know I fully support. As a business person myself, however, I do like the idea of populating my fans’ feeds. We’ll see!!

Cheers,
Mari