Free Social Media Help for Solopreneurs | Social Media Marketing Help | Social Networking for Small Businesses » Group http://www.freesocialmediahelp.com Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:52:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 3 Awesome Features of New Facebook Groups http://www.freesocialmediahelp.com/3-awesome-features-of-new-facebook-groups http://www.freesocialmediahelp.com/3-awesome-features-of-new-facebook-groups#comments Thu, 04 Nov 2010 12:41:20 +0000 admin http://www.freesocialmediahelp.com/?p=1470 Have you started a new Facebook group yet?

Unfortunately you can’t take an old group and convert it to the new group format. (No word yet from Facebook on if they will ever let that happen or if its coming down the pipe)  I’ve been playing around with them for about a month [...]]]> Have you started a new Facebook group yet?

Unfortunately you can’t take an old group and convert it to the new group format. (No word yet from Facebook on if they will ever let that happen or if its coming down the pipe)  I’ve been playing around with them for about a month now and wanted to share 3 of the best features of the new Facebook group.  Note that any new groups created from here on out will be created as this type of new group.

  1. Group Chat-Now you can chat with the members of your group real time. Before you could chat with people one-on-one. Now in a group you can chat with all the members of the group who are logged in to Facebook at one time!  This is a great way to schedule an added bonus Q&A session for your group members or just connect with them in a more intimate way whenever you are in the group.
  2. Document Sharing-While this feature in and of itself is a major step forward…don’t get too excited. This feature is really like a fancy notepad that group members are allowed to collectively edit.  Great way to keep track of group members private contact information.
  3. Update Group by Email-This feature allows any group member (can be changed by administrator) to share content with the group via email.  So for Free Social Media Help’s New Facebook Group members can add content by emailing freesocialmediahelp@groups.facebook.com. Content emailed to the group is shown in each members news feed.

Most of the rest of the features of the old version of groups is still the same. In a Facebook group you can still post pictures, video, & events.  The only difference I see is that there is no discussion area.

I’d love for you to join us on our new Free Social Media Help Facebook Group.  Come join us and get some experience in the functionality of the new Facebook groups.

]]> http://www.freesocialmediahelp.com/3-awesome-features-of-new-facebook-groups/feed 3 Facebook Groups to Now Look More Like Facebook Fan Pages http://www.freesocialmediahelp.com/facebook-group-to-now-look-more-like-facebook-fan-pages http://www.freesocialmediahelp.com/facebook-group-to-now-look-more-like-facebook-fan-pages#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:49:01 +0000 admin http://www.freesocialmediahelp.com/?p=673 In the past Facebook Group activity has remain confined within the group making it difficult to keep lively interaction between Group members. In October 2009 Groups became more like Fan Pages and Personal Profiles.  Groups now have a Wall that summaries all recent activities of people within the group. These activities will also be [...]]]> In the past Facebook Group activity has remain confined within the group making it difficult to keep lively interaction between Group members. In October 2009 Groups became more like Fan Pages and Personal Profiles.  Groups now have a Wall that summaries all recent activities of people within the group. These activities will also be delivered to your News Feeds. Interaction between group members will happen not only in the group but can happen on the News Feed update as well.

So the vast differences between Fan Pages and Groups are narrowing but Facebook remarks that the purpose of each is different. Groups are for fostering member-to-member collaboration, while Pages remain he best way to broadcast messages to fans if you are a business, organization, public figure or other entity.

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