Re: future events
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2016 11:52 am
Let's talk further at the Stone open
Forum for Musto Skiff sailors and interested parties.
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Rick wrote:olisouth wrote:
Cheers Rick, sync'd up, personally still think its worth the 10 minutes loading events into the FB page to make sure all bases are covered, "build it and they will come", but thats my opinion.
cheers again
The challenge is there are so many different ways of doing things you can never cover all the bases. Also - what sounds like a 10 minute job is never that ...
Maintenance is also an issue; Google is the master; if an event then gets loaded to FB and then there is a change it then has to be updated in 2 places.
For instance we know that only 73% of Musto Skiff sailors have Facebook accounts so you instantly ignore 27% of your population if you follow that route.
why ignore any of them at all? always found people prefer to switch off one news item than be forced into one they don't use or like at all. Do we know the uptake of the google calendar?
We will look to see if there is a way to upload a Google schedule to Facebook. If the FB page events can be auto sync'ed to the Google schedule that may be an option.
have you looked at zapier? https://zapier.com/zapbook/facebook-pag ... -calendar/
The other point to consider is Facebook overload ... if you put too much stuff on their people end up hiding you ... it is a balancing act ...
agreed but unless someone is only on facebook for the musto news feed i doubt anyone would have feed overload, even if they do its a simple push of a button to change how their personal feed behaves, even the most cynical of facebook users can handle that .
Perhaps the UK need their own Facebook group as this perhaps would overload the fan page which is international in focus ...
we always had a page for news feed and a private group for the club, which works well, maybe worth setting up? events can also be created in a group and they behave in the same manner so anyone in the group could edit that info, one to think about
Also worthy of consideration is possible damage; if an open does not get social momentum then people may decide not to go as it looks like no-one is going when it actually turns out that everyone is going but they just don't have the time or inclination to say so on Facebook...
double edge sword totally, but we already have the windguru effect to handle which claims far more in lost turnout at club level than i ever thought it would. if an event doesn't get moving and chatted about then perhaps its worth knocking it on the head earlier and informing the club so that both the class and the club don't suffer a loss of revenue/face?
this is worth more of a chat at stone...
all the best
Oli
bristollad wrote: anyway as i was saying i would be up for advertising the events two weeks leading up to the actual event