The following links provide both guidance and analysis about how (and if) to get your Organization on Facebook. For most organizations, there are few reasons to not have a presence on the site and free to setup. The only cost might come if you find yourself spending too much time managing your presence on it (or any other social networking site.
First, read if Should Your Organization Use Social Networking Sites?
So should you invest in creating a profile or networks on social networking sites? It depends on your organization. To succeed with social networking sites, you'll likely need a staff member or consultant who has a passion for working with these types of sites. You'll also need to establish goals to understand if the time commitment is worthwhile. For instance, if you're trying to expand your community, how many new people linked with your cause would make your time worthwhile? Be open to alternative goals, too: Perhaps your primary purpose with social networks is just to get your name in front of the younger members of your audience.
SMUG makes the case for Why Organizations Should Join Facebook Group Land Rush
In reality, you can have an infinite number of groups related to your organization, each with a different purpose.
If you decide to jump on board you'll need the invaluable A Beginner's Guide to Facebook
These nine points are meant to be a starting point for you to get your nonprofit on Facebook and into the social networking world. There are also many examples of nonprofit groups on Facebook
Comments
Tue, 01.07.2008 11:30
Dan, You are absolutely correct and I should have stated this within my post; the described steps within the post [...]
Mon, 30.06.2008 09:45
i wouldnt recomand this at all, because if something happens and the conection is lost u will have your data lost if the [...]
Mon, 09.06.2008 13:42
PDT syntax highlighting support does not seem to work when subclipse is installed, any one else had this problem?
Mon, 09.06.2008 11:56
I didn't mean to imply that you were bashing unit tests.
Mon, 09.06.2008 11:52
My point isn't to bash unit tests, but rather to say there are a bunch of things you should be doing before you get [...]
Mon, 09.06.2008 11:43
I agree with, what I think is, the gist of your argument. That is, if you don't write code that anticipates failure, [...]
Mon, 09.06.2008 08:58
clipse is an open source IDE — or as they put it themselves: “universal toolset for development”. It [...]
Tue, 27.05.2008 12:17
Navigation links should fill their container to ensure ease of selection. A good method for that is to make them [...]
Thu, 22.05.2008 10:35
One of the better comments I've seen in a while: "Although I like PHP, I agree the language is only as good as the [...]
Tue, 20.05.2008 14:03
Oscar, Yahoo's Term Extraction service takes an entire article and returns a few of (what it thinks are) the most [...]
Tue, 20.05.2008 13:13
Hi, Tom Tague from Calais here. First, thanks for taking note of Calais. And integrating an example right within the [...]
Tue, 20.05.2008 13:03
How does this compare to Yahoo!'s Term Extraction Service?
Thu, 15.05.2008 14:37
I rounded up useful links over on the Forum One Tech blog: Getting your Organization on Facebook
Mon, 21.04.2008 13:43
Hi Vikram-- Have you set up your repository in Subversive and successfully connected?
Mon, 21.04.2008 12:56
On checkout as.. dialog you asked to choose "Check out as a project configured using the New Project Wizard." That [...]