How are you using your facebook page? http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/CommunityCycles
We have a Facebook group. I started a Facebook page, but couldn't figure out how to transfer the hundreds of people in the group over to the page without inconveniencing everyone.
Ideally, we just use the group to let people know about events at the shop, but we have one person who likes to send out brief, unpunctuated emails letting folks know about stolen bikes, too. For instance, I emailed the Facebook group about our Thanksgiving potluck, and it got one person out of 800+ people to come. I guess it kept the other folks thinking of us, though. Sometimes people leave comments on the wall, but I don't think we have anyone checking it regularly.
I'd really rather not use Facebook at all, but that's what we have, and that's often how people prefer to hear from us. Looking forward to Diaspora going public.
Angel
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Rich Points rich@communitycycles.orgwrote:
How are you using your facebook page? http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/CommunityCycleshttp://www.facebook.com/home.php#%21/CommunityCycles
-- Rich Points Community Cycles Executive Director http://CommunityCycles.org Rich@CommunityCycles.org 720-565-6019 (W) 303-589-0597 (C) Donate your old car to Community Cycles http://communitycycles.org/get-involved/donatecar.html Volunteer orientations are held 6p.m. on the 4th Wednesday of each month.
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Oh, I see you use yours as a sort of website. We have a website for that (we're working on fixing it so that it's useable) and pretty much everyone in town who wants to find us finds us through the daviswiki.org site. (localwiki: coming soonish to a town near you)
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Angel York aniola@gmail.com wrote:
We have a Facebook group. I started a Facebook page, but couldn't figure out how to transfer the hundreds of people in the group over to the page without inconveniencing everyone.
Ideally, we just use the group to let people know about events at the shop, but we have one person who likes to send out brief, unpunctuated emails letting folks know about stolen bikes, too. For instance, I emailed the Facebook group about our Thanksgiving potluck, and it got one person out of 800+ people to come. I guess it kept the other folks thinking of us, though. Sometimes people leave comments on the wall, but I don't think we have anyone checking it regularly.
I'd really rather not use Facebook at all, but that's what we have, and that's often how people prefer to hear from us. Looking forward to Diaspora going public.
Angel
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Rich Points rich@communitycycles.orgwrote:
How are you using your facebook page? http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/CommunityCycleshttp://www.facebook.com/home.php#%21/CommunityCycles
-- Rich Points Community Cycles Executive Director http://CommunityCycles.org Rich@CommunityCycles.org 720-565-6019 (W) 303-589-0597 (C) Donate your old car to Community Cycles http://communitycycles.org/get-involved/donatecar.html Volunteer orientations are held 6p.m. on the 4th Wednesday of each month.
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I'd love to become fans of your pages and groups. Please pass your links along.
Ride On! Rich
On 12/8/2010 10:36 AM, Angel York wrote:
Oh, I see you use yours as a sort of website. We have a website for that (we're working on fixing it so that it's useable) and pretty much everyone in town who wants to find us finds us through the daviswiki.org http://daviswiki.org site. (localwiki: coming soonish to a town near you)
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Angel York <aniola@gmail.com mailto:aniola@gmail.com> wrote:
We have a Facebook group. I started a Facebook page, but couldn't figure out how to transfer the hundreds of people in the group over to the page without inconveniencing everyone. Ideally, we just use the group to let people know about events at the shop, but we have one person who likes to send out brief, unpunctuated emails letting folks know about stolen bikes, too. For instance, I emailed the Facebook group about our Thanksgiving potluck, and it got one person out of 800+ people to come. I guess it kept the other folks thinking of us, though. Sometimes people leave comments on the wall, but I don't think we have anyone checking it regularly. I'd really rather not use Facebook at all, but that's what we have, and that's often how people prefer to hear from us. Looking forward to Diaspora going public. Angel On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Rich Points <rich@communitycycles.org <mailto:rich@communitycycles.org>> wrote: How are you using your facebook page? http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/CommunityCycles <http://www.facebook.com/home.php#%21/CommunityCycles> -- Rich Points Community Cycles Executive Director http://CommunityCycles.org Rich@CommunityCycles.org 720-565-6019 (W) 303-589-0597 (C) Donate your old car to Community Cycles http://communitycycles.org/get-involved/donatecar.html Volunteer orientations are held 6p.m. on the 4th Wednesday of each month. _______________________________________________ Thethinktank mailing list Thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org <mailto:Thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org> To unsubscribe, send a blank email to TheThinkTank-leave@bikecollectives.org <mailto:TheThinkTank-leave@bikecollectives.org> To manage your subscription, plase visit: http://lists.bikecollectives.org/listinfo.cgi/thethinktank-bikecollectives.org
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We set up a Facebook group but hardly use it. Folks do post links of
interest at times, and I'll post the odd info note, but we've had a
website for a long time and everyone knows that's where the updates
are. I've even put a note on our FB group to warn that it is not
regularly monitored.
Mark Rehder - Coordinator re-Cycles Community Bike Shop http://re-cycles.ca
On 8-Dec-10, at 12:36 PM, Angel York wrote:
Oh, I see you use yours as a sort of website. We have a website for
that (we're working on fixing it so that it's useable) and pretty
much everyone in town who wants to find us finds us through the
daviswiki.org site. (localwiki: coming soonish to a town near you)On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Angel York aniola@gmail.com wrote: We have a Facebook group. I started a Facebook page, but couldn't
figure out how to transfer the hundreds of people in the group over
to the page without inconveniencing everyone.Ideally, we just use the group to let people know about events at
the shop, but we have one person who likes to send out brief,
unpunctuated emails letting folks know about stolen bikes, too. For
instance, I emailed the Facebook group about our Thanksgiving
potluck, and it got one person out of 800+ people to come. I guess
it kept the other folks thinking of us, though. Sometimes people
leave comments on the wall, but I don't think we have anyone
checking it regularly.I'd really rather not use Facebook at all, but that's what we have,
and that's often how people prefer to hear from us. Looking forward
to Diaspora going public.Angel
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Rich Points
rich@communitycycles.org wrote: How are you using your facebook page? http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/CommunityCycles-- Rich Points Community Cycles Executive Director http://CommunityCycles.org Rich@CommunityCycles.org 720-565-6019 (W) 303-589-0597 (C) Donate your old car to Community Cycles http://communitycycles.org/get-involved/donatecar.html Volunteer orientations are held 6p.m. on the 4th Wednesday of each
month.
How are you using your facebook page?
We use our Facebook page as just one more aspect of our overall social media campaign (website, blog, email newsletter, Facebook, Twitter). I have setup Facebook as a clearinghouse for all of the other media outlets. When we post a blog, send a Tweet, or newsletter it automatically updates our Facebook page. We have varying numbers of followers/subscribers/et al to each of the various medias so cross-posting gets the word out to multiple groups.
Sam H Bozeman Bike Kitchen http://bozemanbikekitchen.org
We are very informal with ours and a handful of our volunteer corps (plus our local bicycle coalition staff) have access as page admins. It's a FAST/FUN way to publish insignificant but interesting things - interesting links, random events "Unscheduled hours today, 1-3pm", random happenings "A line of people waiting outside the door when we opened today. Cool." and community news.
We've noticed though that the people who watch facebook may not be the same people who are paying attention to our mailing list.
Additional comments based on some other responses:
- We don't add anyone to our facebook page, we just advertise once in
a while that we have one and they can join it.
- Yes, we have a website and other outlets for long-term info. Those
aren't good for messages such as the "Unscheduled hours today, 1-3pm" type communication.
- User can write on our wall, but that doesn't get rebroadcast to all
the fans (I think), so not many people would see it.
http://www.facebook.com/SLOBikeKitchen
Brian SLO Bike Kitchen San Luis Obispo, CA www.slobikekitchen.org
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 07:48, Rich Points rich@communitycycles.org wrote:
How are you using your facebook page? http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/CommunityCycles
-- Rich Points Community Cycles Executive Director http://CommunityCycles.org Rich@CommunityCycles.org 720-565-6019 (W) 303-589-0597 (C) Donate your old car to Community Cycles http://communitycycles.org/get-involved/donatecar.html Volunteer orientations are held 6p.m. on the 4th Wednesday of each month.
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