On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 9:37 AM, rob levy <[email protected]> wrote: > What Chris created is a group by the way, which is different from a page on > Facebook. It's probably good to have both,
right > and it's important to use them > correctly as I have seen examples of it being done wrong. good > The KISS principle applies here in choosing not to post messages to the > Facebook group. The "groups" feature is misleadingly named to suggest that > they might be useful for discussions, but messages posted to Facebook groups > do not result in notifications to the subscribers. Two places to have to > post messages can't be a good thing. So even apart from the fact that only > a certain percentage of people are on Facebook, the mailing list and RSS are > a better way to keep updated than a facebook group. do we have RSS FOR wIki or mailing list? > That said, groups are really useful because the owner of the group can issue > a message to all subscribers. This is especially appropriate for notifying > members about events. Events on Facebook are useful because people can > manage their RSVP, and at the same time advertise the event to their friends > unobtrusively in their profile/feed. so if the FB poster handles RSVP and pizza, that's good so arzSteve and Rob volunteering to be co-admin of group with Chris and of Page ? -- Bill [email protected] [email protected] _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
