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Re: How Do You… Find… the People You Love?

Amaison — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 11:25:31 -0000

Re: Creating “Share This on Facebook/Twitter” Links

Carrie — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:58:33 -0000

Very well written post that explains exactly what I need. Thanks.

Re: Facebook Page vs. Group for Nonprofits

Katherine — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:11:14 -0000

I set up a Page for my organization and am now trying to set up a group under that Page but can't figure out how to do it. It looks like that feature may no longer exist? I can see how to do it on my personal page but not on the organization..... Can you help??

Re: Facebook Page vs. Group for Nonprofits

Lollipop Local SEO — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 18:09:04 -0000

The most important difference between Groups and Pages is that Pages can be indexed by Google so have a major SEO priority.

Re: Facebook Groups: Banished to the Archive

Dyncoch — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 04:52:20 -0000

The main draw of Facebook for me was to make contact with friends from years ago, to share old photographs and reminisce. I created a group for my old primary school and uploaded many school photos. Other members also uploaded photos which is now a great place for people to connect with old school friends and share old photos and stories.

This group is now scheduled to be archived as Facebook deem that the page does not attract enough activity.I think Facebook are shooting themselves in the foot here, but there you go, when you get so big that all that concerns you is the demon dollar then there's only one way that things can go, down!

Re: Breakups are Hard: Departing Staff and Tech Security

Mike Gifford — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:12:59 -0000

We posted this article on our blog about how to deal with techies when they leave a while back - http://openconcept.ca/blog/... - We should probably refresh it and provide insights for managing social media & 3rd party services like Google Apps.

Re: Facebook Page vs. Group for Nonprofits

Matt Garcia — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:15:39 -0000

Thanks for the update on the custom URL, Steven! We need to go back and update this post. Facebook changes a lot of these settings on almost a weekly basis at this point :P

Re: Facebook Page vs. Group for Nonprofits

Steven L. Johnson — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 10:30:41 -0000

Thank you for this helpful post. FYI) Facebook recently eliminated the 25 like requirement for a custom URL for pages.

Re: Are You a Twitter Spammer?

Matt Garcia — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:12:50 -0000

Re: Are You a Twitter Spammer?

Amanda — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:26:37 -0000

I'm with Peter. I got here via @Matt Garcia's tweet: http://twitter.com/aspirati...

And called it a trick question because I've gotten great results using an @ message as advocacy, but I think we're talking about different things.

I'm sure the @ storm is a great way to get at least a few people to open a URL. Which is why so many spammer's do it. I think that Twitter is a great place to get a conversation going, but if you can't generate a meaningful conversation, you're not actually improving over plain old email blasts.

I've gotten airlines to fix a botched ticket with a tweet addressed to them. I've weighed in on broken infrastructure or shoddy coverage of breaking news with @ replies, but they're authentic conversations.

Re: Are You a Twitter Spammer?

Matt Garcia — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:39:16 -0000

Definitely. @s have quickly become the new spam. Well, I guess "new" is relative... I wonder if there are many larger organizations or celebrities who respond to requests from strangers. I could see some being valuable and innocent while the canned, generic asks sent out ad naseum being the real meat-in-a-can.

Re: Are You a Twitter Spammer?

Peter Campbell — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:34:50 -0000

Sounds like they were spamming to me. I regularly drop NPOs -- no matter how worthy their missions -- that DM or @ me with appeals and generic content. I'm on Twitter to converse and share with my community, not to sift through the canned mail.

Re: How Do You… Find… the People You Love?

Lisa — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:25:27 -0000

#2!

Re: Facebook Groups: Banished to the Archive

Rods — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 15:01:27 -0000

After writing the above, all the members have reappeared in the old group format. Strange. There is no option to upgrade on the group page yet but everything is back as it was. It appears to have been un-archived! And it had been archived for about five days. So, it looks, Matt, that I'll wait and see. Thanks for the reply.

Re: Facebook Groups: Banished to the Archive

Matt Garcia — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:04:20 -0000

Ugh, Rod, that sucks! So sorry to hear that Facebook trampled all over the work you were doing. The worst part is that even if you knew it was coming Facebook makes it so hard to export anything in terms of group member information. Are you looking to rebuild on a different online platform?

Re: Facebook Groups: Banished to the Archive

Rods — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 13:00:25 -0000

I have/had three goups, of of which "Inline Street Skaters of Europe" had over 600 plus members with hundreds of personal and youtube videos added in the last two years. It was archived last week (the other two groups also). As the administrator I was not given the option of upgrading, which I would certainly have done. Instead: I logged on and all the worlwide members had disappeared. I was even unable to message everyone who had taken the trouble to join. Facebook just wiped their profiles away. I will not be putting my energy and enthusiasm into creating any other group like this again. - at least not on Facebook.

Re: Keeping Track of Your Dashboard Feeds with a Listening Matrix

heidimassey — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:33:37 -0000

Just discovered this site via a google search. Really glad I did! Lots of great info. And a terrific blog roll as well.
I am citing this site, and specifically this post in my newsletter going out in a few minutes. Thanks for the great info!

Re: Facebook Groups: Banished to the Archive

Matt Garcia — Wed, 18 May 2011 14:47:00 -0000

I was originally going to have a picture of the Soup Nazi angrily eating a bowl of Facebook Groups but the picture fell apart in my head... ;P

Re: Facebook Groups: Banished to the Archive

Matt Garcia — Wed, 18 May 2011 12:58:13 -0000

Interesting. The question is whether or not the Upgrade option would have eventually turned up if you hadn't have posted. Hmmm...

Re: Facebook Groups: Banished to the Archive

Scott Plakun — Tue, 17 May 2011 21:32:59 -0000

So I posted a status update on the group that was going to be archived due to lack of use, to warn members of what was likely to happen in the coming weeks. That seems to have been enough activity for the Facebook gods to revise their plans for our group, because when I checked today to see if we had been archived yet I found that we had been granted the option to upgrade. Upgrade completed. Two clicks.

Re: Facebook Groups: Banished to the Archive

Scott Plakun — Mon, 16 May 2011 14:40:25 -0000

I am an admin of a closed group that is rarely used (but important to us members when we do). It's clear from what Facebook is telling us that we'll be archived -- we have not been given the option to upgrade. It's very difficult to parse the language facebook is using. "Archive" sounds like it's going somewhere inaccessible. But if you read carefully, it seems they're going to upgrade the group and eliminate the membership. They don't indicate some key details like whether it will be public or private, what will happen to the admins' relationship to the group. We're hoping that we'll be able to restore our private status and rebuild our membership. Anyone have a more clear idea of what they will allow "archived" groups to do?

Re: Facebook Groups: Banished to the Archive

karvetski — Mon, 16 May 2011 14:01:59 -0000

No more soup for you. BAAAAAA that's funny. I didn't realize they were being so picky about it. Thanks for the post.

Re: Facebook Page vs. Group for Nonprofits

Misty — Fri, 06 May 2011 18:16:27 -0000

Hi Debkl,

Thanks for reaching out! You are right, you SHOULD be searchable online now that you have a page. I have not come across this problem yet, but there are a couple things to check to make sure you are search engine find-able.

In the privacy settings of Facebook, check to make sure you have the box checked that enables your public search listening.

Here's the instructions from Facebook:

- Click "Edit your settings" for the "Applications and Websites" section at the bottom of your main Privacy Settings page.- Scroll down to the Public search option and click "Edit Settings."- Check the box next to "Enable public search".

- Please keep in mind that once you’ve changed your settings on Facebook.

Sometimes there can be a delay from creating the page and to actually get you on the search engines.

Otherwise, if you want to send your page URL along I can try to help troubleshoot.

Thanks and let me know how it's going.

Anyone else been able to overcome this problem?

-Misty

Re: Facebook Page vs. Group for Nonprofits

Debkl — Wed, 04 May 2011 23:24:23 -0000

I created a Facebook Page for our nonprofit last week and it still is not coming up in a public search, which was the whole point. There are no settings that I can find to change this. Do you have any suggestions?

Thank you.

Re: How Do You Manage Your Passwords?

Matt Garcia — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:54:04 -0000

Hi Drew, using Roboform Everywhere seems like it would get addictive as in "I don't need to remember any password because I'm using this tool". Do you still keep your passwords easy to figure out in some way or do you rely on the tool to remember everything?