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The Ultimate Resource List: The Difference Between a Facebook Group and a Facebook Page

Posted by John Saddington on May 28, 2009

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Facebook is pretty big, if I do so say myself. A number of ministries and businesses have already jumped in and begun leveraging it for their organization.

One of the inevitable questions that arise is whether or not one should use a Facebook “Group” or a Facebook “Page” for their ministry, because they are certainly different!

Instead of re-inventing the wheel, here are some valuable links that can help you better understand the difference between a Facebook Group and a Facebook Page.

Use them wisely!

The Ultimate Resource List

Knock yourself out. ;)

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John Saddington

John is the Chief Editor @ The 8BIT Network and Senior Blog Junkie here at ChurchCrunch.He enjoys Triple-Tall Americanos, developing Wordpress Themes, and a few other Random Things.

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12 Responses to “The Ultimate Resource List: The Difference Between a Facebook Group and a Facebook Page”

  1. Jay
    Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 4:58 pm

    Thanks. Great stuff in these links. Check that Mashable one though. Permalink to this entry is messing it up.

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  2. sullied
    Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 5:03 pm

    Great stuff. The Mashable link was really good.

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  3. human3rror
    Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 5:05 pm

    yeah. mashable is hawt.

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  4. Brad Davis Seal
    Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 10:55 pm

    Speaking of Facebook Pages and Mashable. Here's a helpful post by Mashable: 8 Essential Apps for Your Brand’s Facebook Page: http://mashable.com/2009/05/13/facebook-brand-app...

    One of the coolest things I've discovered about Facebook Pages is the Music Player. You don't have to use it for music. It will take any MP3 that under 15MB – it's perfect for sermon audio. I use it as a free podcast player integrated into our Facebook Page. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hattiesburg-MS/Firs...

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  5. Paul Steinbrueck
    Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 11:11 pm

    I've found FB groups to be almost completely worthless. Because there is no way for activity in a group to show up in a group member's news feed, people almost never come back to the group after joining. The only good use I've found for FB groups so far is as a subscriber list since you can send a message to everyone in the group.

    On the other hand, if you update the status or post a link, not, pic, etc that will show up in the fans' news feed which will draw people back to the page.

    If FB wanted to make groups useful they would add notification controls which members could opt to get updates in their news feed if someone posted something to the group – to the wall, discussion board, photos, etc.

    That's my 2 cents.

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    • human3rror
      Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 11:36 pm

      thanks for that paul. i think a number of people would probably agree.

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  6. Jim
    Friday, May 29, 2009 at 2:02 pm

    FB needs to to a better job of letting you do RSS to someone who signs up. Almost better off using a Ning network.

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  7. human3rror
    Friday, May 29, 2009 at 2:10 pm

    hmm. interesting.

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  8. Eric Murrell
    Friday, May 29, 2009 at 3:08 pm

    John:

    Here's an article we wrote about Long Hollow's experience with Facebook Pages; I touch on some of the improvements made in Pages over Groups and some of the new features that are awesome for ministries.

    http://www.mediasalt.com/2009/03/25/news-flash-fa...

    We've had huge success with our fan page; every church should do one even if only a fraction of their audience is hanging out on Facebook.

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    • human3rror
      Friday, May 29, 2009 at 3:11 pm

      Eric,

      Thanks for this! Great stuff!

      Reply

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