Does your shop have a facebook page? do you use it? how? what have you learned that works or doesn't work for getting volunteers, money, support, etc?
I'm interested in hearing from shops or individuals, if you're interested in sharing. Feel free to email me off list if you'd like.
josh.
Does your shop have a facebook page? do you use it? how? what have you
Josh,
The Bozeman Bike Kitchen is on Facebook and I use it as a "port" for information we provide elsewhere. I have setup our Twitter and Blog accounts to post updates and blogs to our Facebook page automatically to keep information there fresh. This "cross pollination" of information between accounts is good because some people don't look at all of our information resources so doubling things up gets the word out.
I receive a weekly e-mail from Facebook telling me weekly statistics about my Facebook pages (I also maintain pages for a few other organizations as well as my place of business). If I see there have been a number of comments left during the week I may wish to go in and respond to keep our fans interested.
- Sam
Josh,
MoBo Bicycle Cooperative uses facebook to invite people to events. So far it's been working very well. It seems like people use the facebook page for news/events than our website, but it's also updated more and super legible.
Jess www.mobobicyclecoop.org
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Sam Haraldson samh@samh.net wrote:
Does your shop have a facebook page? do you use it? how? what have you
Josh,
The Bozeman Bike Kitchen is on Facebook and I use it as a "port" for information we provide elsewhere. I have setup our Twitter and Blog accounts to post updates and blogs to our Facebook page automatically to keep information there fresh. This "cross pollination" of information between accounts is good because some people don't look at all of our information resources so doubling things up gets the word out.
I receive a weekly e-mail from Facebook telling me weekly statistics about my Facebook pages (I also maintain pages for a few other organizations as well as my place of business). If I see there have been a number of comments left during the week I may wish to go in and respond to keep our fans interested.
- Sam
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bike pirates is online via facebook and blogger. Its the only reason i tend to my email, works well with others but i think we need an internet outlet that can bring us bike donations. I was thinking of a twitter page.
pirates has a facebook group that interacts with other bike shops facebook pages, it also keeps people in a loop. It can be bad news when you send an event with wrong details like times and dates, or when you try to promote anothers groups event and facebook makes it look like your producing the event. Bad news there, so watch out when making events.
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Jess Linz linz.jess@gmail.com wrote:
Josh,
MoBo Bicycle Cooperative uses facebook to invite people to events. So far it's been working very well. It seems like people use the facebook page for news/events than our website, but it's also updated more and super legible.
Jess www.mobobicyclecoop.org
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Sam Haraldson samh@samh.net wrote:
Does your shop have a facebook page? do you use it? how? what have you
Josh,
The Bozeman Bike Kitchen is on Facebook and I use it as a "port" for information we provide elsewhere. I have setup our Twitter and Blog accounts to post updates and blogs to our Facebook page automatically to keep information there fresh. This "cross pollination" of information between accounts is good because some people don't look at all of our information resources so doubling things up gets the word out.
I receive a weekly e-mail from Facebook telling me weekly statistics about my Facebook pages (I also maintain pages for a few other organizations as well as my place of business). If I see there have been a number of comments left during the week I may wish to go in and respond to keep our fans interested.
- Sam
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yeah, i agree it's a great way to the 2.0 gen know newsy news.
On Jul 27, 2010, at 3:30 PM, Jess Linz wrote:
Josh,
MoBo Bicycle Cooperative uses facebook to invite people to events.
So far it's been working very well. It seems like people use the
facebook page for news/events than our website, but it's also
updated more and super legible.Jess www.mobobicyclecoop.org
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Sam Haraldson samh@samh.net wrote:
Does your shop have a facebook page? do you use it? how? what have
you
Josh,
The Bozeman Bike Kitchen is on Facebook and I use it as a "port" for information we provide elsewhere. I have setup our Twitter and Blog accounts to post updates and blogs to our Facebook page automatically to keep information there fresh. This "cross pollination" of information between accounts is good because some people don't look at all of our information resources so doubling things up gets the word out.
I receive a weekly e-mail from Facebook telling me weekly statistics about my Facebook pages (I also maintain pages for a few other organizations as well as my place of business). If I see there have been a number of comments left during the week I may wish to go in and respond to keep our fans interested.
- Sam
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Kelly Martin, Operations Facilitator The Bicycle Kitchen/La Bicicocina 706 N. Heliotrope Dr., Los Angeles, CA 90029
W 323.NOCARRO | M 213.210.5631 kelly@bicyclekitchen.com | www.bicyclekitchen.com http://www.bicicocina.blogspot.com
SLO Bike Kitchen (www.slobikekitchen.org) in San Luis Obispo, CA uses Facebook. We're in a university town, so it works well for that demographic. We definitely get interesting comments there and it's a fun place to post random links that bike geeks might want to see. But not all our fans (in both FB-speak and normal person speak) are subscribed there - only 47 to be exact. Our e-mail mailing list has over 300 people and it's what we use when someone gives us their contact info. (San Luis Obispo has a population of about 50,000 if you're curious...)
You asked about donors - especially for us, when someone walks in with a donation of parts or a bike, I try to ask how they know about us. 50% of the time it's due to the posts we have on craigslist. I'd almost say that craigslist is more effective for us than Facebook or the mailing list.
Brian SLO Bike Kitchen
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 14:01, veganboyjosh@gmail.com wrote:
Does your shop have a facebook page? do you use it? how? what have you learned that works or doesn't work for getting volunteers, money, support, etc?
I'm interested in hearing from shops or individuals, if you're interested in sharing. Feel free to email me off list if you'd like.
josh.
I post an article on our joomla website, then log into facebook add do a "link" post on our page -- which automatically posts to our twitter account. Then I copy the text to an email, send it to our email list with a link to the original joomla website article. If it is really important I do the same thing to craigslist, ksl.com, and other local community calendars.
The email list, twitter, facebook, etc.,... links are right on the front page.
So it is hard to say which one is working.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Morrison Executive Director Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective 2312 S. West Temple Salt Lake City, UT 84115 w: 801-328-2453 c: 801-688-0183 f: 801-466-3856 www.slcbikecollective.org
The mission of the Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective is to promote cycling as an effective and sustainable form of transportation and as a cornerstone of a cleaner, healthier, and safer society. The Bicycle Collective provides refurbished bicycles and educational programs to the community, focusing on children and lower income households.
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 3:01 PM, veganboyjosh@gmail.com wrote:
Does your shop have a facebook page? do you use it? how? what have you learned that works or doesn't work for getting volunteers, money, support, etc?
I'm interested in hearing from shops or individuals, if you're interested in sharing. Feel free to email me off list if you'd like.
josh.
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BICAS in Tucson uses Facebook almost exclusively to let people know about our events. Saves a lot of time and resources when it comes to event flyering. We have over 600 group members (we chose "group" status rather than a page for reasons decided long before I arrived- but it seems to work just fine). Like others, I ask people how they heard about our events and nowadays most of them say through FB.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2318097866
We've talked about upping our FB presence to a "cause" to be able to receive online donations, but we haven't done it yet. Has anyone else out there tried that approach to fundraising?
Like others, we also have a Twitter page but use it mostly to cross pollinate and duplicate announcements. So far Twitter has not been as effective as FB.
http://twitter.com/Bicastucson
Kylie Walzak Education and Outreach Co-Coordinator BICAS (520) 628-7950 www.bicas.org
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 8:06 PM, Jonathan Morrison < jonathan@slcbikecollective.org> wrote:
I post an article on our joomla website, then log into facebook add do a "link" post on our page -- which automatically posts to our twitter account. Then I copy the text to an email, send it to our email list with a link to the original joomla website article. If it is really important I do the same thing to craigslist, ksl.com, and other local community calendars.
The email list, twitter, facebook, etc.,... links are right on the front page.
So it is hard to say which one is working.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Morrison Executive Director Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective 2312 S. West Temple Salt Lake City, UT 84115 w: 801-328-2453 c: 801-688-0183 f: 801-466-3856 www.slcbikecollective.org
The mission of the Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective is to promote cycling as an effective and sustainable form of transportation and as a cornerstone of a cleaner, healthier, and safer society. The Bicycle Collective provides refurbished bicycles and educational programs to the community, focusing on children and lower income households.
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 3:01 PM, veganboyjosh@gmail.com wrote:
Does your shop have a facebook page? do you use it? how? what have you learned that works or doesn't work for getting volunteers, money,
support,
etc?
I'm interested in hearing from shops or individuals, if you're interested
in
sharing. Feel free to email me off list if you'd like.
josh.
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BICAS in Tucson uses Facebook almost exclusively to let people know about our events. Saves a lot of time and resources when it comes to event flyering. We have over 600 group members (we chose "group" status rather than a page for reasons decided long before I arrived- but it seems to work just fine). Like others, I ask people how they heard about our events and nowadays most of them say through FB.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2318097866
We've talked about upping our FB presence to a "cause" to be able to receive online donations, but we haven't done it yet. Has anyone else out there tried that approach to fundraising?
Like others, we also have a Twitter page but use it mostly to cross pollinate and duplicate announcements. So far Twitter has not been as effective as FB.
http://twitter.com/Bicastucson
Kylie Walzak Education and Outreach Co-Coordinator BICAS (520) 628-7950 www.bicas.org
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 8:06 PM, Jonathan Morrison < jonathan@slcbikecollective.org> wrote:
I post an article on our joomla website, then log into facebook add do a "link" post on our page -- which automatically posts to our twitter account. Then I copy the text to an email, send it to our email list with a link to the original joomla website article. If it is really important I do the same thing to craigslist, ksl.com, and other local community calendars.
The email list, twitter, facebook, etc.,... links are right on the front page.
So it is hard to say which one is working.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Morrison Executive Director Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective 2312 S. West Temple Salt Lake City, UT 84115 w: 801-328-2453 c: 801-688-0183 f: 801-466-3856 www.slcbikecollective.org
The mission of the Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective is to promote cycling as an effective and sustainable form of transportation and as a cornerstone of a cleaner, healthier, and safer society. The Bicycle Collective provides refurbished bicycles and educational programs to the community, focusing on children and lower income households.
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 3:01 PM, veganboyjosh@gmail.com wrote:
Does your shop have a facebook page? do you use it? how? what have you learned that works or doesn't work for getting volunteers, money,
support,
etc?
I'm interested in hearing from shops or individuals, if you're interested
in
sharing. Feel free to email me off list if you'd like.
josh.
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