You may have noticed that I recently made a Katydid and Kid fan page (become a fan!) and it's been fun linking my blog posts to Facebook. I wanted to make a fan page rather than post my blog posts on my personal Facebook page, because I still have real friends (verses what Mr. Geek calls "vrends" or virtual friends) and relatives who don't really want my latest review posts clogging up their news feeds.
It was pretty simple to set up, and I'm still adding more applications and features as I learn more about it. To get started, either log in to your current Facebook account (or create one if you don't have one already) then click this link. The page will look like this:
You'll need to choose what type of page it will be. I selected the Artist, Band or Public Figure tab and chose "writer". Then I typed in the name of my page and made sure the box was unchecked, about allow the page to be publicly viewed.There you have it, your own fan page. You'll want to add an image, like your blog button or something too, and of course add your website in the profile. Once you get more than 25 fans, you can get a "vanity" url, like mine which is "http://www.facebook.com/katydidandkid" rather than "www.facebook/q8129379879i23" or something like that. To get that, simply click this link and follow the instructions once you get more than 25 fans.
Some other things you might want to add right away are a fan badge for your blog (follow the simple instructions there),
and automatically having your blog posts published to your Facebook fan page. To do that, I set up an application with Networked Blogs and then under the page settings tab for the Katydid and Kid fan page, I linked my blog posts with the page.
I'm sorry I didn't make notes as I was doing this, but from what I remember it was really easy to connect your blog to your page. If you get stuck, email me and I'll see if I can help. The one thing I do remember doing was making sure I didn't connect the blog posts to my personal profile, just so I wasn't double posting and so that my real friends didn't have to see my posts unless they became a fan of my blog.So there you have it. Quite a chunk of info on Facebook fan pages. Good luck, and consider becoming a Facebook fan of Katydid and Kid!
7 comments:
Seriously, do you have some kind of weird bug in my head that picks up what I want to know how to do on the computer? And then you write a tutorial on it for me? You are a genius!
I always enjoy your tech Tuesday posts. Thanks for the info!
Oh YAY!
This is perfect for me since I'm wanting to put together a FB fan page sometime in the near future :)
Thanks for all this info!!
You have an awesome Tech Tuesday series here. :-)
Excellent post! I do a linky on Wednesdays for Facebook Fan Pages and have linked to this post.
http://stacievaughansblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/add-your-facebook-fan-page-here_17.html
OMG-this is the information I have been needing!! Thank you so much for sharing. I just became your fan and hope you will become one of mine!
www.facebook.com/crazyforcollars
(thank you for showing me how to make that link!)
Okay, so I have a question...because I'm not really diggin' my fan page and want it to be...better.
Do you have your posts automatically link up, or do you do it manually?
Mine are automatically, and I can't get the widget to change. It's the same ol' screenshot...and it screams BORING!!
How'd you do it?
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