As usual very informative post. It took alot of arm twisting to get this old man (me) to get involved with Facebook. Now I am at that stage that okay I ddid now what? Your post gave me the guidance I needed.

Thanks

It was also a lack of infrastructure ( highspeed wasnt predominantly available then ) and data transfer ability … ie: Like distributing content to larger numbers of servers ala: google … or better compression/rendering etc etc. Those have changed or been remedied since mspace lost its place in the sun.

Think myspace was just ahead of its time … and is still a major soc net player. If it had come onto the scene a few yrs later … it mightve stayed untouchable.

Looking forward to the dy, when facebk gets knocked off its thrown. Just dont like them, they are heavy handed and arrogant imo. Like restricting contests etc for small commercial interests on their site … why give people the option of promoting and then tie their hands with overly restrictive nonsense like the contest TOS changes ?

Those people enrich their site … and its not like facebk is doing it out of the kindness of their greedy hearts … fb has to allow it. To compete and stay effective in the local search/real time arena. Guess Im just saying, dont like their too big to fail, treat users however they want attitude.

With their unnecessary restrictions on creativity and heavy handed behavior. Hope they go the way of myspace and something better comes along. Cause was a dy myspace thought it could never be replaced too.

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thanks!

Love reading your blogs, keep it up!

Along the lines of Zack’s comment, it’d be great to hear your tips for service based– and particularly nonprofit– organizations. Just wanted to see if there were any ideas that were more service-focused, but didn’t make the list.

You do bring up a good point with the cafe you go to. If you searched 1x and they did not have one, why would you ever think to search again? I can see where them reaching out is first awareness that the page even exists and then becoming a fan is secondary. I guess some days I get requests that are for pages I have absolutely no interest in and actually get annoyed when they show up. Probably just more crabby pants and annoyed that I had to waste a few seconds looking at it.

As always you have great points to make us all think.

Suzanne

I’ve seen things like featuring a photo gallery of events and asking for feedback etc. Just curious if you have any other tips to make the FB page for service oriented businesses less like a blog full of recent posts.