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Resources to Help You with a Facebook Fan Page

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Are you thinking that your organization or business needs a Facebook Fan Page? Perhaps you're not quite clear about what to do and how to do it. The resources listed here will help you decide if a Facebook Fan Page is for you, and will give you some tips and how-tos.




An excellent tutorial on the fine points of creating a Facebook Fan Page by Orli Yakuel made me stop and think. I've seen a lot of fan pages on Facebook. I've seen many articles about why Facebook Fan Pages are a good idea for your business or organization. This tutorial stands out for its tips on how to write Facebook specific markup and other goodies.

There's a Facebook Application called Static FBML that you add to your page. With this application, you can create either HTML or FBML (Facebook Markup Language) to customize the appearance of your page.

Facebook itself provides information to help you create your page. Here's a slideshow from Facebook on How to Use Mobile Phone to Update Facebook Pages. Take a look at 10 Key SEO Strategies Every Facebook Page Owner Should Know, too. Facebook Help has tips for making pages.

Tips for Using Facebook Fan Pages

Many helpful articles here at BlogHer and elsewhere can help you craft the purpose and content of your Facebook Fan Page. Here are a few:

Some Facebook Fan Page Examples

In the learn from others category, here are some examples of existing fan pages to study.

From the nitty gritty details to high level theory, these resources provide enough good advice to help you get an effective Facebook Fan Page up and running.

If you are a BlogHer member with a Facebook Fan Page, how about dropping a link to your page in the comments? We'll pay you a visit.

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Virginia DeBolt
BlogHer Contributing Editor|Web Teacher|First 50 Words


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Karen Klasi 5 pts

My FB fan page is Karen Klasi Writes. Man, do I need the help of this article! Thank you.

hammondart 5 pts

HammondArt

Glad I found you, this could be a very cool resource for a blogger newby! You can check my blog at: http://zeroto60andbeyond.com and visit my fan page on facebook, HammondArt.
Thanks!

Virginia DeBolt 19 pts

Thanks for sharing your Facebook page links.

Virginia DeBolt
BlogHer CE ( http://www.blogher.com/blog/virginia-debolt ) | Web Teacher ( http://www.webteacher.ws/ ) | First 50 Words ( http://first50.wordpress.com )

Moomettes 5 pts

Cindi

Moomette's Magnificents

http://moomettesmagnificents.com/blog

Frugal New England Kitchen

http://frugalnewenglandkitchen.com@Moomettes
Twitter:

http://twitter.com/Moomettes

Thanks for all the resource information. I'm trying to become more active on FC and have built two pages, one for each blog. I'm always trying to improve my FB fan page!

Visit at:
Moomette's Magnificents on Facebook

Frugal New England Kitchen on Facebook

Virginia DeBolt 19 pts

Thanks for the link to your Fan Page.

Virginia DeBolt
BlogHer CE ( http://www.blogher.com/blog/virginia-debolt ) | Web Teacher ( http://www.webteacher.ws/ ) | First 50 Words ( http://first50.wordpress.com )

MarketingMama 5 pts

This is great, Virginia! I started a facebook fan page a few months ago and am so pleased with how it has helped me with my blog, namely increased traffic. If I link up to a new post, I get a lot of hits from it. But I like to use my facebook page as a way to "build my blog brand" so to speak - I keep original content, polls, etc. on there that I don't put on my blog, also on twitter as well. So if people follow my blog, fb page and twitter, they will always see new things.

Today I hit my 285th fan - woot! :)

You can check it out (and become a fan!) at:
www.facebook.com/themarketingmama ( http://www.facebook.com/themarketingmama )

Thanks again,
Missy

marketingmama.com

Virginia DeBolt 19 pts

both your post about it and your fan page.

Virginia DeBolt
BlogHer CE ( http://www.blogher.com/blog/virginia-debolt ) | Web Teacher ( http://www.webteacher.ws/ ) | First 50 Words ( http://first50.wordpress.com )

Virginia DeBolt 19 pts

And good luck with the new Fan Page.

Virginia DeBolt
BlogHer CE ( http://www.blogher.com/blog/virginia-debolt ) | Web Teacher ( http://www.webteacher.ws/ ) | First 50 Words ( http://first50.wordpress.com )

Mir Kamin 15 pts

Add me to the list of folks coming very late to this particular party. I just wrote about this last week on my freelancing blog ( http://www.workitmom.com/bloggers/corneredoffice/2... ), and this week I think I've finally worked out the kinks on the Want Not fan page ( http://www.facebook.com/pages/Want-Not/24026343982 ).

It's been very interesting to me to see folks who've never commented on the website interacting with the FB page, and people who aren't "friends" with me on FB coming by to fan the site. Fascinating, really.

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Mir Kamin
(BlogHer contributing editor)

Personal: Woulda Coulda Shoulda ( http://wouldashoulda.com/ )

Having it all with less: Want Not ( http://wantnot.net/ )

Theody 5 pts

I'm in the process of starting a fan page for my business, so thanks for the very helpful infomation.

www.wicksbgone.info ( http://www.wicksbgone.info )

Virginia DeBolt 19 pts

This will give you some help. Hope you have great success with it.

Virginia DeBolt
BlogHer CE ( http://www.blogher.com/blog/virginia-debolt ) | Web Teacher ( http://www.webteacher.ws/ ) | First 50 Words ( http://first50.wordpress.com )

Hey Jen 9 pts

This is very helpful stuff! I've been trying to set up a fan page for several weeks, it's slow going currently.

Virginia DeBolt 19 pts

Tell us where your page is...

Virginia DeBolt
BlogHer CE ( http://www.blogher.com/blog/virginia-debolt ) | Web Teacher ( http://www.webteacher.ws/ ) | First 50 Words ( http://first50.wordpress.com )

Maria Young 6 pts

This was super helpful to me - I have one Facebook fan page for a site that I run and I love it: it's the only way for me to really interact with the site's readers/followers. I'm all about making it as great as I can!

- Maria Young

immoralmatriarch.com ( http://immoralmatriarch.com )

@maria0305 ( http://twitter.com/maria0305 )