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

By: Church Social Web Case Study | Brad Davis Seal

Church Social Web Case Study | Brad Davis Seal — Sat, 30 May 2009 03:55:32 +0000

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

By: human3rror

human3rror — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:11:05 +0000

Eric,

Thanks for this! Great stuff!

By: Eric Murrell

Eric Murrell — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:08:33 +0000

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.

By: human3rror

human3rror — Fri, 29 May 2009 14:10:09 +0000

hmm. interesting.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 29 May 2009 14:02:58 +0000

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

By: human3rror

human3rror — Thu, 28 May 2009 23:36:06 +0000

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

By: Paul Steinbrueck

Paul Steinbrueck — Thu, 28 May 2009 23:11:41 +0000

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.

By: Brad Davis Seal

Brad Davis Seal — Thu, 28 May 2009 22:55:48 +0000

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...

By: human3rror

human3rror — Thu, 28 May 2009 17:05:04 +0000

yeah. mashable is hawt.

By: sullied

sullied — Thu, 28 May 2009 17:03:37 +0000

Great stuff. The Mashable link was really good.