Comments on: Problems with Facebook Pages for Churches https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/problems-with-facebook-pages-for-churches/ A look at how trends in communication technology impact individuals and organizations. Thu, 26 Jan 2023 18:50:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Facebook Flash Programmer https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/problems-with-facebook-pages-for-churches/comment-page-2/#comment-175066 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:28:29 +0000 https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/2009/03/19/problems-with-facebook-pages-for-churches/#comment-175066 I have also faced the same kind of problems before. Thanks for your solutions guys. Will surely check it.

]]> By: Paul Steinbrueck https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/problems-with-facebook-pages-for-churches/comment-page-2/#comment-164703 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:21:44 +0000 https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/2009/03/19/problems-with-facebook-pages-for-churches/#comment-164703 Hi Monika, thanks for your comment. I think I’ve found a solution to getting updates to show up in your “fans” news feeds. Post it a few minutes ago here:

https://blog.ourchurch.com/2009/03/30/trick-facebook-pages-news-feed/

]]> By: Monika https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/problems-with-facebook-pages-for-churches/#comment-164475 Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:17:27 +0000 https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/2009/03/19/problems-with-facebook-pages-for-churches/#comment-164475 I have observed a similar problem. I maintain the facebook site for a local chapter of a missions organization and have been regularly updating our status. I did see that someone “liked” the status update a couple weeks ago, so clearly someone must have seen it somehow. But none of the new status updates have been showing up in my feed at all. I don’t know if it’s because I’m the admin or what.

I also wish I had the capability of messaging people rather than just updating them. That is the one thing that makes me wish I hadn’t moved us from a group to a page. Oh well!

A side note — has anyone found out how to get the Page’s status updates to show on your org’s/church’s websites? I know it’s possible for personal profiles if someone’s using WordPress or Drupal, but haven’t found info on how to do the same with Pages.

]]> By: Phillip Gibb https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/problems-with-facebook-pages-for-churches/#comment-163923 Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:27:44 +0000 https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/2009/03/19/problems-with-facebook-pages-for-churches/#comment-163923 Hi Paul,

Is this still the case. Seems to be a serious problem if ‘fans’ don’t get the updates – especially for a Church Page, because communication is key (and more important to play a ‘in the week’ role in keeping people on track – informationally and Spiritually)

Phill
[twitter: http://twitter.com/phillipgibb ]
[blog: http://synapticlight.com/ ]

]]> By: Paul Steinbrueck https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/problems-with-facebook-pages-for-churches/#comment-163537 Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:53:55 +0000 https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/2009/03/19/problems-with-facebook-pages-for-churches/#comment-163537 Hi Sarah, on Facebook pages there is a “Send an update to fans” link. I used that. I can’t say whether it might have appeared to come from me personally rather than the church because nobody received it.

And just to be clear, I wasn’t suggesting that Facebook might be discriminating against Christians. I was suggesting that because Facebook has said that pages for different types of organizations have different features and because my observation is that the info added to the OurChurch.Com page (a business) is appearing in fans’ newsfeed but info added to the Cypress Meadows page (a church) is not, that perhaps Facebook has configured pages in the church category not to put info in their fans’ newsfeed. I still think that’s unlikely, though.

I can only speak to the problems with my church’s page. Sorry if the title was confusing. I hope others who have created Facebook pages for their church will reply and let us know if they are experiencing the same problems.

]]> By: sarah https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/problems-with-facebook-pages-for-churches/#comment-163489 Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:53:30 +0000 https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/2009/03/19/problems-with-facebook-pages-for-churches/#comment-163489 When you tried to ‘message’ everyone did you use the personal message setup b/c when i looked at the pages info it says that ‘pages’ can’t message yet (no inbox) so it comes from the admin and looks like the admin sent it.

I highly doubt facebook would be discriminating just your messages either, especially since other christian pages “have been seeing the links to blog articles and announcements we’ve been posting there.”

Sounds like you should test the final theory you had about the update by creating a new page and making sure everything works on it (before scrapping your old one) just to make sure it’s not due to some downtime/technical error on facebook’s side.

Note – how many churches is this affecting as the title of the article is plural?

]]> By: Hjalmer Lamminen https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/problems-with-facebook-pages-for-churches/#comment-163470 Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:46:45 +0000 https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/2009/03/19/problems-with-facebook-pages-for-churches/#comment-163470 Hi,
It seems like certain things non christian do draw more attention.
I had an ad for a Dani Johnson site.
She is a network marketer and good christian.
She tells it like it is.
I was sent an email by facebook that I should not have such an ad on facebook, even though I paid for advertising, because they said they do not ike to promote any “hate” messages, so I removed the ad.

]]> By: Paul Steinbrueck https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/problems-with-facebook-pages-for-churches/#comment-163461 Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:58:49 +0000 https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/2009/03/19/problems-with-facebook-pages-for-churches/#comment-163461 Christy, I did that for my church a few months ago too, until Facebook killed it for violating their terms of service. (Only individuals are permitted to have profiles.) I should tell that story here on this blog some time.

]]> By: Christy Dorr https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/problems-with-facebook-pages-for-churches/#comment-163459 Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:20:33 +0000 https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/2009/03/19/problems-with-facebook-pages-for-churches/#comment-163459 I have a Facebook for our church, but I created it as a regular profile with a regular password. I didn’t use the Groups or the Fan pages for it because it doesn’t have all the same functions. If I want to send out a mass message to everyone, I could create a group for it and attach an event. Groups and events lets you send out emails to everyone in the group and message people who are already in your regular profile. If I want to have my personal facebook open and the Leaning Tree Church one logged in at the same time, I open one in my Google Chrome browser I use, and the other in either a Foxfire or Internet Explorer Browser. Since I’m “friends” between the two profiles, I can look back and forth easily to see if what I just posted from one or the other showed up and how it looks. Hope this helps.

]]> By: Paul Steinbrueck https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/problems-with-facebook-pages-for-churches/#comment-163449 Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:08:56 +0000 https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/2009/03/19/problems-with-facebook-pages-for-churches/#comment-163449 @John – very true. Are you just busting on me or is there something specific you think I might have missed?

@Larry – I hadn’t heard about issues during the transition. Can you post a link? That seems most likely to me too.

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