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By: Librarian by Day » What Libraries Should Know Before Creating a Facebook Page – Libraries & Facebook Update 2

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:03:24 +0000

[...] orginal warning about creating a Facebook page is still correct, the update I posted was inaccurate. I’d like to thank Elizabeth for sharing what she discovered when [...]

By: Bobbi

Bobbi — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:05:55 +0000

If you leave the library can you step down as the Admin? That was the main problem, there is no way to remove the original creator of the page from it if they leave the organization. With groups you can promote other then remove yourself or someone can remove you. But with pages there was no way to do it.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:15:15 +0000

I dug through FB help pages today, and it appears that you still have to have a personal profile (or multiple ones) linked to fan pages. The info I read, at least, said they don’t stand alone, but that you can have multiple people with administrative powers for the page.

So basically what I did was create a dummy profile for our staff to use, using my name but putting in no more details than were required. I also made that profile unsearchable and unfriendable. (What a word.)

This was what happened when I set it up as library/public building. From what I read, you can instead create a business profile page. Is this perhaps the one that changed?

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:41:51 +0000

I just set up a page for our library and did have to put in my name and birthdate. Fine. But it did make me create some kind of personal profile along with it with in order for the page to be published. I wonder why that is, and if I somehow did it wrong. I did go the “create a page for an organization” route and chose library/building as the category.

And when I’m logged in, my name is up in the right corner. But that isn’t visible when I access it from the outside, as other people will see it.

Anyway, I know you’re not my personal fixer of these things! But I wondered if anyone else has run into this and thought perhaps it still is awfully tied to one individual.

It is not linked to my personal Facebook page that already existed. And it is linked to our library’s Yahoo e-mail address.

By: Librarian by Day » Libraries Think Twice about a Facebook Page

Librarian by Day » Libraries Think Twice about a Facebook Page — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:02:10 +0000

[...] Update 9/29/2009 Organizations can now create a page without linking it to a personal account. [...]

By: Bobbi Newman

Bobbi Newman — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:51:44 +0000

I’m glad I posted it then!I think it’s a wise move from Facebook. I think more and more Company pages will run into trouble when the person who created it leaves.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:17:41 +0000

I’m am so happy to hear this from you, since you were the one who taught me to watch out for that set-up issue! We are about to set up a FB page for our library, and we’re so lucky on our timing, I guess.

By: Bobbi

Bobbi — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:05:31 +0000

Diane – as far as I can tell the existing accounts are still tied to the creator and there doesn’t seem to be a way to remove them.

By: Librarians and Facebook – Warning Lifted…09.10.09 « The Proverbial Lone Wolf Librarian's Weblog

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:14:57 +0000

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