wideawakewesley
11-07-2007, 04:36 PM
The New Facebook Pages just went live 2 hours ago. Business, bands, etc. can now set up a Facebook Pages page. This is really a pretty solid experience and bug free right out of the gate. This is an easy way to get your brand onto facebook. The features are fairly robust and work very similarly to facebook groups. Except there are actually pushes of data to tell people about action from the pages. Nice! You can actually have ?Fans? which is kind of cool. Hey Scoble, this is where the overflow from your 5000 friends can now hang out!
You can also message all of your fans (with text and video). This is very cool! I would hope that there is not an upper limit on the number of fans that you can message. You can also set up events which is a really nice feature. It also has a mini-feed, discussion board, wall, photos and video. I could not verify; but i would imagine that the mini-ffed would populate the news feed of the fans of the facebook page.
The other really cool thing is that you can actually add applications to these Facebook Pages. The application needs to be facebook pages enabled. Time for all you coders to start working overtime. I tried to add the Slide Application but I had a crash and it never saved the slideshow to the facebook page. In all fairness it is 3 am and I am a bit sleep deprived.
The use cases for these facebook pages are many. I am still trying to find out if these pages will be indexed by the search engines. I would imagine that they might be eventually. You can also promote your facebook page by purchasing the new social advertising units. I set one up for testing and will report back after a few days on the results.
Facebook pages also has some fairly robust reporting. This is very important. There also controls for privacy and membership for the facebook pages.
Suffice to say, I just created a Totally Rad Show page and once I work out how to hand that over to the guys, they can take it and spam us with videos etc.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=6205753201
;)
Wes
You can also message all of your fans (with text and video). This is very cool! I would hope that there is not an upper limit on the number of fans that you can message. You can also set up events which is a really nice feature. It also has a mini-feed, discussion board, wall, photos and video. I could not verify; but i would imagine that the mini-ffed would populate the news feed of the fans of the facebook page.
The other really cool thing is that you can actually add applications to these Facebook Pages. The application needs to be facebook pages enabled. Time for all you coders to start working overtime. I tried to add the Slide Application but I had a crash and it never saved the slideshow to the facebook page. In all fairness it is 3 am and I am a bit sleep deprived.
The use cases for these facebook pages are many. I am still trying to find out if these pages will be indexed by the search engines. I would imagine that they might be eventually. You can also promote your facebook page by purchasing the new social advertising units. I set one up for testing and will report back after a few days on the results.
Facebook pages also has some fairly robust reporting. This is very important. There also controls for privacy and membership for the facebook pages.
Suffice to say, I just created a Totally Rad Show page and once I work out how to hand that over to the guys, they can take it and spam us with videos etc.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=6205753201
;)
Wes