Jan 06, 2012 by Matthew Warner
Does your parish presence on Facebook have "friends"? ...or "fans"? If you answered "friends," then somebody probably made the mistake of setting up your parish presence as a "personal profile" on Facebook, rather than a "Fan Page" or "Page."
It's an understandable and common mistake. But basically, Facebook has personal profiles for people (you're actually not supposed to set them up for organizations like a parish). Organizations are supposed to create "Pages" that people can "LIKE" or become "fans" of.
The trouble is that a lot of parishes and organizations made this mistake some time ago and have since gathered up hundreds or thousands of "friends" for their organization to keep in touch with. And switching to using a "Page" instead, would have meant losing all of their "friends." Well Facebook just fixed this problem.
You can now easily convert your personal profile (mistakenly made for your parish) into a proper "Page" and not lose any of your connections! Just follow these instructions here and it will transfer all of your "friends" to a new Facebook Page for your parish.
A Facebook Page is a better setup (than a Facebook personal profile) with a lot more to offer for an organization like a parish. So you should definitely make the switch!
Also, flockNote allows you to connect your Facebook Page to any of your Lists on flockNote (Just check your Edit List section). Doing so will automatically promote your Facebook page at the bottom of all of your Notes you send out. It will also give you the option - when sending a new Note in flockNote - to have flockNote automatically update your Facebook page for you. Nice and convenient like.
Already have a Facebook page set up for your parish? Bonus reading: Check out this helpful pdf on how to get the most out of your Facebook Page -> Building Your Presence with Facebook Pages.
Facebook is a great complement to flockNote for your parish. flockNote establishes an easy platform for your entire leadership team to manage communication lists and ministries within your parish while providing an easy way to oversee and track all communications sent out to parishioners. flockNote focuses on the most direct and immediate forms of communication that engaged members prefer: email, txt and phone. But Facebook is a powerful tool to continue building that community, share the life of your parish in a unique way and reach other people who may not yet be fully engaged with your parish. That's why we make it easy for the two to work together.