Comments on: Facebook groups vs. Facebook pages

By: Using Facebook Pages to Connect with your Audience | ABS News Center

Using Facebook Pages to Connect with your Audience | ABS News Center — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:53:16 +0000

[...] Facebook groups vs. Facebook pages by Tim Davies [...]

By: Should You Create a Facebook Page or Facebook Group?

Should You Create a Facebook Page or Facebook Group? — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:21:39 +0000

[...] Tim Davies has a really great breakdown of the differences in his post on Facebook Pages vs. Facebook Groups. [...]

By: Jim Tan

Jim Tan — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:42:22 +0000

Here is more detail for facebook pages vs groups, http://www.maplecreation.com/wiki/marketing-your-business-on-facebook-group-or-page/

By: Tim Davies

Tim Davies — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:44:09 +0000

Hey Andy,

For discussion I think Yahoo Groups is still a very good bet – particularly if you point out to people they can access digest mode if they don’t like too many e-mails.

The poor integration of Facebook groups with e-mail makes them pretty poor as discussion spaces in most cases.

You could though use a Facebook page as a ’shop front’ for the Yahoo Group – pulling in headlines from the Yahoo Group using the RSS feature, so that anyone who is a fan of the page gets the opportunity to see what’s going on through the Yahoo group – and is enticed to join.

(This would only work if your Yahoo group is open, so that RSS feeds of recent topics are available. See this page for integrating pages and feeds: http://practicalparticipation.co.uk/yes/toolbox/facebook/feeds)

You would probably need to experiment in this case with whether to leave comments on Facebook’s copy of the headlines from the Yahoo group switched on – as that could fragment discussions a bit – or it could provide space for different groups to engage at different levels which can be good…

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:23:58 +0000

Hi Tim. I happened upon this post through a Google search. Great stuff.

I’m used to using Yahoo Groups for discussion amongst neighbors, but I’m trying to decide if FB would be a good alternative, since most people are familiar with it. My problem is that I can’t figure out how to replicate the Yahoo feature of having an email address that users can post discussions to which copies all members of the group for all replies. It seems that with a FB group, you have to be more proactive as a member in going to the group page to see discussions. You don’t automatically get included on all discussions via email unless you post a reply yourself. Based on your research, do you have any insight or recommendations?

By: Hatim Mousa

Hatim Mousa — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:33:33 +0000

Thank you very much it was great and help full, i found this article easily in Google when i wrote what is the difference between face-book group and face-book pages, thank you very much again.

By: Athina

Athina — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:01:47 +0000

Hello.
I have create a facebook page and I wonder how I can send a photo via page update?
I saw that i can write only a text and i can’t send a photo or a link. Is there a way??
Please help me

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:31:49 +0000

I’m not planning on updating this post at present. If any suggestions for an alternative that I should direct people to then do let me know..

By: Ross McCulloch

Ross McCulloch — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:28:32 +0000

Really useful post, will you be updating it when the new changes to Facebook pages happen soon?

I’ve added this post to my 10 must-read Facebook resources for non-profits: http://www.rossmcculloch.com/10-must-read-facebook-resources-for-non-profi

By: Ron R

Ron R — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:43:59 +0000

Hi,
Started working at a start up marketing/promotions company in Barcelona, this is a a new adventure for me as my background is in finance. Does anyone know of any applications for downloading lists of people/groups members from either pages or group pages from facebook?
Thank you. Ron