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Comment 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

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Comment on Facebook groups vs. Facebook pages 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. [...]

Comment on Content analysis, tagging, linked data and digital objectivities by Janelle Ward

Janelle Ward — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:05:24 +0000

Very interesting! I really like the idea of comparing the logic of codes (and coder reliability) in content analysis to the ways in which people tag various information online. Sounds like a potentially fascinating project, and one that also addresses how various people (not academics!) categorize information.

Now to head over to that research blog of yours…

Comment on Facebook groups vs. Facebook pages 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/

Comment on Facebook groups vs. Facebook pages 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…

Comment on Facebook groups vs. Facebook pages 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?

Comment on Content analysis, tagging, linked data and digital objectivities by Tim

Tim — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:40:26 +0000

Hey Peter

Just added an RSS link on the research blog. There was a feed – just not being auto-detected by most browsers for some reason…

Tim

Comment on Content analysis, tagging, linked data and digital objectivities by Peter

Peter — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:02:07 +0000

Tim,

do pl. put an rss feed on your research blog sometime soon – it’d be a treat to keep abreast of what you’re up to there (as well as here!).

cheers
Peter

Comment on Facebook groups vs. Facebook pages 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.

Comment on The twitter post: txt for conferencing and consultation by millercs

millercs — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:17:17 +0000

This definitely goes into my bag of markeing tricks. I would be interested in other marketing applications and case studies for Twitter. I used it at a conference for the first time last week and saw other people commenting on the same speaker content. I felt much more engaged and it spurred conversation afterwards with these people and others. Not sure how it looked to the speakers though! Next time I speak and I see someone fiddling with their mobile phone I’ll mention to the audience that maybe they are finding something useful in my speech to Twitter. More online is better even if they are somewhat distracted.