Door-Knocking with 3,000 of Your Closest (Facebook) Friends: Moving Your Campaign’s Supporters Offline and Into Your Precincts
This year, folks who are new to the political process have become fans of your Facebook Pages and are ready to help with your campaigns, but may not be sure where to begin. For new activists who are unsure about the campaign culture, jumping in head first can be intimidating and many activities (read: knocking on strangers’ doors) will require extra encouragement.
Facebooking Is A 2-Way Street: Be Prepared
Facebook Pages are interactive. This is an important point and one that is true for every campaign, nonprofit, small business, etc.: when you create a Facebook Page, you are creating a public forum for feedback- both positive and negative. This may seem obvious, but many, many small businesses, campaigns, and organizations alike start their Facebook [...]
Quality over Quantity: Debunking 2 Social Networking Myths
How do we measure social networking success? Is it by the number of fans on your Facebook Page or the quality of your fan base? This blog post debunks two common myths and provides insights for determining the success of your social networking accounts!
Understanding the Share Button: Part 3 of Facebooking for Activists
Next to “suggesting to friends,” the share button is the easiest and most effective way to share information from Pages or other profiles with your Facebook friends. When you share a story on Facebook, that story appears in your friends’ newsfeed and on your Facebook profile.
Suggesting to Friends: Part 2 of Facebooking for Conservative Activists
Suggesting Facebook Pages to your friends is the fastest and easiest way to spread the message about new candidates or nonprofits. The conservative causes you support on Facebook are depending on you to help them get their message out.
Facebooking for Conservative Activists
As an administrator for many Facebook Pages, I spend a lot of time asking Facebook fans and other supporters to share Pages, Groups, links, Notes, and more with their Facebook friends. The goal of these posts is to give you a few tips for sharing and spreading the conservative message to your friends and family on Facebook.
Facebook: Part 2 of “Turn Casual Supporters Into Engaged Activists”
There is no formula for building a successful and effective Facebook Page. Mostly it takes time, persistence, and your own blend of whatever it is that makes your organization tick. Just keep in mind that if I become a fan of your Page it’s because at some level I’m interested in your topic. Now, your task is to create a Facebook plan that will translate my surface interest into action.
Facebook Updates Updated
Not two weeks after I wrote this post encouraging you not to rely on Facebook Page Updates to relay messages to your fans, Facebook has improved the updates mechanism on Facebook, listing Page updates under inbox messages. With this new layout, Page administrators should see an increased response to updates.
Facebook Updates and Action Alerts
Need your activists to call their legislators right away? Wanting voters to head to the polls? Don’t rely on Facebook Updates for this time-sensitive information.
Facebook Meet Twitter
Today- thanks to AllFacebook.com- I found the perfect application for adding Twitter to your Facebook Pages without overwhelming your fans with too many updates (which you aren’t doing, right?) or pulling in your Tweets with a cluttered RSS feed. Facebook meet the Twitter for Pages application from Involver.com.
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