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So You Want A Facebook Fan Page?

For all those non-profit questions about whether to get a Facebook profile or a page, and how to use both really well, here’s a trough of answers and resources:

Profiles VS Pages
Profiles are for individuals, Pages for Organizations
Recently redesigned pages to be more like profiles
Pages are optimized for mass communication
Profiles are optimized for individual communication

    Note that their TOS says you can’t create for an individual who doesn’t exist.  If you do, they will delete it. (Some of you may remember the flap about Ranger Rick from 2007)

    A question that everyone asks – “When should my group set up a Fan Page versus a Facebook Group?
    Best Answer yet:   Set up a Facebook FanPage as your main presence or outpost and use a group for more adhoc, smaller organizing.

    Read: So You Want A Facebook Fan Page?

    This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 at 8:36 pm and is filed under Fundraising, Non-Profit, Outreach, Resources, Social Networks, Tools, Uncategorized, blog, communications. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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