At the last Central Committee Meeting we were given a glimpse of a presentation by the Committee Webmaster,
It dealt mostly with the difference between the LCRCC Facebook Group Page which is MANUAL
BOO HISS YUCKY!
and the LCRCC Facebook Fan Page which is AUTOMATIC
YAY MORE TECHNOLOGY GOODY!
I will link to the presentation HERE for your Perusal.
One of the features promised is
Simpler, One Source Multiple Touches
I am not certain what that means unless One Source means the Webmaster and Multiple Touches discribes all the Duplicate Posts found on the Facebook Fan Page.
He continues with
Social Media Challenges
• We Have two Facebook ‘pages’
• Group Page (older one)
• All Manual
• Discussion Board
• Pictures
• NO Web Integration
• Fan Page
• Discussion, Pictures and posts
• Integration with a website, Twitter, YouTube and many other social outlets
• Photos Direct and Instagram
• Events
• Email (mail chimp) integration
• Ticket and Event integration
• Automated
• Much more
Now first let me say I have nothing against Automation.
Nor do I have anyting against Manual Operation.
I think both have their places.
What I have noticed about the Fan Page is that the reader is inundated with a massive deluge of multiple Duplicate Posts.
It is TRUE as has been pointed out that sometimes they are not REALLY Duplicate Posts, but they just LOOK that way.
An example recently was posts on the subject of the Office Committee Meetings
The Facebook Group Page had 1 post
Office Committee Meeting Dates:
Office Committee Meeting 1/27
Office Committee Meeting Dates:
Office Committee Meeting 1/27
Tuesday, January 27 at 6:30pm
3349 Southgate Ct SW , Cedar Rapids, IA 52404
Office Committee Meeting 2/10
Tuesday, February 10 at 6:30pm
3349 Southgate Ct SW , Cedar Rapids, IA 52404
Office Committee Meeting 3/3
Tuesday, March 3 at 6:30pm
3349 Southgate Ct SW , Cedar Rapids, IA 52404
With a picture of the building that the LCRCC Office is in.
Northwest door. First floor. Just inside the outside doors and to the left is suite 105.
The Facebook Fan Page had separate Posts that looked like.
Linn County GOP shared their event.
Now it might be a matter of taste whether One Post for 3 events is best or 3 Posts one for each of the 3 Dates is better.
But I don't think anyone would disagree that SEVEN Posts for 3 dates is a little overkill.
So for these 3 dates we had 7 posts and before that two duplicate posts for the Executive-Advisory Commitee Meeting.
Before that three posts for the January Central Commitee meeting, which used the Same photo as the two posts after it that were for the Executive-Advisory Meeting
If you have a Facebook Account you can see what I am talking about HERE
Call me Old Fashioned but in my opinion there is a sore need of Manual Editing on this Page.
Both the Group Page and the Fan Page have their own issues and their own advantages.
I say we keep both.
One thing I like about the Group Page is that you can see the profiles of ALL 365 Members, check that out HERE
But on the Fanpage of the 94 Likes? I can only see the profiles of the 19 who are already my Facebook Friends.
So for Networking the Group Page has an edge.
Before we leave on more thought about the Duplicate Posts that really were not Duplicates, they just looked that way.
Is that EFFECTIVE Communication?
Might it be possible that a Reader might look at them and think-- a bunch of duplicates again, read one and never realise the other ones gave information about the same thing on different dates?
To conclude, we don't need an avalanche of duplicate posts.
We heard you the first time.
You don't need to continue repeating the same thing over and over and over again.
Updated: Saturday, 24 January 2015 2:35 AM CST
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