Comments on: Newspapers on Facebook

By: catalin

catalin — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:10:01 +0000

I see you managed to get a lot of fans on the fans page. It seems it worked out for you. Congrats.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:18:33 +0000

One tip: It could be most helpful to see if you can sneak your publication on Facebook with a personal profile. (NOTE: It may take some re-arranging of the name, spacing, etc.)

You’ll get the best kind of interaction, and folks are more likely to post on your wall, etc. You can wish folks a happy birthday, hook up your status with FriendFeed, etc.

One tip, however: Do NOT ask Facebook for help from that account, because it will get banned. (Funny thing about FB…you have to be a real person. Psht.)

By: Whitney Rhodes

Whitney Rhodes — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:47:18 +0000

Be careful. Facebook deleted the Courier-Post Facebook profile 2 years and 500 friends after its creation. While you have more power to reach out to other Facebook users with a profile page, keep in mind that if Facebook notices —– and it’s only a matter of time —— all your hard work will be deleted. Facebook’s TOS warns against creating profile pages for orgs/entities.

Best way to avoid this is to create a fan page and ask Facebook admins to transfer your profile friends over as fans. Lame, I know, but it saves you from disappointment … unearthly rage later on.

Good luck!

By: Jon Johnston

Jon Johnston — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:24:40 +0000

I’ll be watching you (as usual).

Have fun!

By: Steph

Steph — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:15:39 +0000

I just didn’t think I could juggle a group too. Plus I’m more familiar with fan pages. I’ll see how it goes for a few weeks and maybe I can do the group thing for special sections of the paper (like our Silver Salute, or Progress Editions etc).. Hmmm yeah that might be an idea…

By: Ernie

Ernie — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:06:45 +0000

Good luck with it.

Me I would have chosen a group.

But as I said in one of my tweets to you “the choice is yours” No matter which option you will still extend the net of your paper.