All,
To play devil's advocate here, surely Facebook is about 'faces', i.e.
people, and once they start allowing organisations, however nice and
personable we may think we are, to act as 'faces', then it starts the
downward slide towards another place where people are sold stuff, rather
than where people interact with other people, and the early adopters
will leave for the next 'unspoilt' site, and it will cease to be
fashionable...
Matthew
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From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
David Salmon
Sent: 02 July 2007 16:13
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Subject: Re: Facebook
Kurt,
Thats extremely useful! It seems a shame that non-profit organisations
cannot setup accounts as it would be extremely beneficial to the
cultural sector, but of huge interest to people already on sites such as
Facebook etc.
Do you think sites such as Facebook would be coming round to the idea of
letting non-profits use the sites? I think Flikr is one such example.
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>Subject: Re: Facebook
>Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 10:50:37 -0400
>
>Hello David,
>I will pass on some information about FaceBook based on my recent
>experiences.
>Facebook is not intended for use by organizations. If they find you
>have made and account for an organization they will delete your
>account. I speak from experience because Facebook deleted an
>organization account I setup about a month ago and about 30 other
>museum related accounts thereafter. I talked with someone at FaceBook
>and they explained it is not intended for use by organizations.
>Just thought you would like to know.
>Regards,
>Kurt
>
>
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>Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 10:38 AM
>Subject: Facebook
>
>
>>Dear all,
>>
>>This morning I was asked to set up a Facebook account for our
>>organisation, the Public Catalgoue Foundation. I have a personal
>>account with Facebook, but I would like to know if anyone has setup or
>>thought about creating a similar account for their organisation and
>>what your own experiences/concerns/problems/successes etc. were.
>>
>>In case you are unaware of the project, we are publishing a series of
>>county-by-county catalogues that feature reproductions of oil
>>paintings in publicly-owned collections across the UK. In the
>>not-too-distant future we will be publishing all the catalogue
>>paintings on a free website
>>
>>I believe that my superiors wish to use Facebook to attract a younger
>>audience and raise our profile with more web-savvy people as a step
>>towards the online PCF in a few years time.
>>
>>There are obviously hundreds of issues that this raises, but I would
>>like to know if anyone has setup or thought about creating a similar
>>account for their organisation and what your own
>>experiences/concerns/problems/successes etc. were before I create an
>>Facebook account for our organisation.
>>
>>Please feel free to email me off-list, or at
>>[log in to unmask]
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>David.
>>
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