julieo00
March 30th, 2009, 10:07 PM
Hi,
I volunteer at a non-profit that helps disabled Veterans. Since I have a little computer knowledge I found myself the adhoc "techie" which includes all hardware, software, webpage, etc...definitely over my head but I'm trying. Our Director discovered that non-profits have Facebook pages and it was voted to have a Facebook page (there was only 1 dissenting vote).
Knowing nothing about Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, etc I followed the instructions and set up a Non-profit Business page. By default it gives you the "Wall", "Info", "Boxes", "Discussion", "Photo" and I added "Notes" because it seems to be for Blogging. I put in our info, logo picture and added a couple of blogs and an upcoming event. I have no idea what to do next. I've been reading everything I can about non-profits on Facebook but I'm totally confused on how to use the page to interest people in our Vets and our work and how to let them know about events, latest developments, articles, etc. The non-profit pages seem to be very different than regular business pages or personal ones.
When I log in it takes me to the business dashboard. From there I have to go to the Pages tab and then "View Page" even to see our page and it's in edit mode. I told our staff that we have the page but no one can find it so I've obviously done something wrong. Other than "Promote Page with an Ad" which costs money I don't see any way to even let anyone know it exists. I found an article that mentioned creating a personal page to use to direct people to a non-profit page so now I have my own Facebook page which I invited "friends" that are as uninformed as I am to join. I'm over my head and out of my era but it's a good cause and I want to do a good job. Can someone please help me?
I volunteer at a non-profit that helps disabled Veterans. Since I have a little computer knowledge I found myself the adhoc "techie" which includes all hardware, software, webpage, etc...definitely over my head but I'm trying. Our Director discovered that non-profits have Facebook pages and it was voted to have a Facebook page (there was only 1 dissenting vote).
Knowing nothing about Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, etc I followed the instructions and set up a Non-profit Business page. By default it gives you the "Wall", "Info", "Boxes", "Discussion", "Photo" and I added "Notes" because it seems to be for Blogging. I put in our info, logo picture and added a couple of blogs and an upcoming event. I have no idea what to do next. I've been reading everything I can about non-profits on Facebook but I'm totally confused on how to use the page to interest people in our Vets and our work and how to let them know about events, latest developments, articles, etc. The non-profit pages seem to be very different than regular business pages or personal ones.
When I log in it takes me to the business dashboard. From there I have to go to the Pages tab and then "View Page" even to see our page and it's in edit mode. I told our staff that we have the page but no one can find it so I've obviously done something wrong. Other than "Promote Page with an Ad" which costs money I don't see any way to even let anyone know it exists. I found an article that mentioned creating a personal page to use to direct people to a non-profit page so now I have my own Facebook page which I invited "friends" that are as uninformed as I am to join. I'm over my head and out of my era but it's a good cause and I want to do a good job. Can someone please help me?