Friday
May162008
Facebook Will Merge Your Group And Page To Make Poups!!
Friday, May 16, 2008 at 16:00 | baratunde | tagged Apple, Facebook, Marketing, Social Networks, Web Community Forum in Technological
In a landmark decision, Facebook now allows normal group owners to have their Facebook Groups merged into their Facebook Pages. I heard about this on Inside Facebook a few weeks ago but wanted to verify that it worked for me. It does!
Some of you will remember my very public bitchin about Facebook Groups vs. Pages from back in December. I spoke at the Web Community Forum thanks to an invite from the wonderful Teresa Valdez Klein. It seemed then and up till a few weeks ago that Facebook didn't really know what to do about the discrepancy between group and page functionality. Things got so testy, we actually started a Page to complain about the problems with Groups vs. Pages
About a month ago, they started moving sponsored groups over to pages, but when I asked if they'd do it for me, they were all, "No, you're not Apple. Go back to your fragmented and confusing world!"
Now they've come around.
here's what you do
voila!
My stats are still broken on the "Ads and Pages" dashboard, but that's less important right now.
Check out my Page and become a fan! A GRAND UNIFIED FAN.
Some of you will remember my very public bitchin about Facebook Groups vs. Pages from back in December. I spoke at the Web Community Forum thanks to an invite from the wonderful Teresa Valdez Klein. It seemed then and up till a few weeks ago that Facebook didn't really know what to do about the discrepancy between group and page functionality. Things got so testy, we actually started a Page to complain about the problems with Groups vs. Pages
About a month ago, they started moving sponsored groups over to pages, but when I asked if they'd do it for me, they were all, "No, you're not Apple. Go back to your fragmented and confusing world!"
Now they've come around.
here's what you do
- Go to this generic Facebook help form.
- Subject should be: convert group to page
- In the body provide the URL of the group and the page
voila!
My stats are still broken on the "Ads and Pages" dashboard, but that's less important right now.
Check out my Page and become a fan! A GRAND UNIFIED FAN.
Reader Comments (4)
Rock on, Baratunde! Woot! I was just about to publish a "Rant" post about this, when, *poof* we has poups! Congrats and thanks and I'll get right on it.
Just as soon as I find something else to rant about...
hmmm...friend suggestions...
Ellen
Thanks for the tip my friend! I've been wondering about this for a while with my own personal group. I've been through the migration for a client already, but hated that individuals couldn't be migrated.
This is huge news!
Keep on being who you are!
I've been putting off tackling this beast for a few pre-Nov07 clients. Thanks for sharing the great news. There's that gamble in being an early adopter in an evolving world, but I guess it's the way life is just going to be from now on. Beta life. Cheers and great to have seen you again at SxSW!
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