CSC Facebook Page

[Baggers]

Just joined and approval has come through.

[northernblue]

For anyone interested, on fb I go by the username of Glenn Grant ? and for the moment are the sole admin of CSC fb group.

The desired anonymity of some people here is understandable but sort of antiquated nowadays in my opinion.
I’m a member of several fb groups and pages and the “identities” of other members of those groups who are often spread all over the world, is frankly of no interest to anyone.
Fb does allow you to effectively close your profile to anyone who you are not a friend of, so people can read your words in relation to CSC on fb,  but not see your private life (cat pics, last nights dinner etc… ?)
In the past we’ve had posters who have held official and volunteer roles at CFC, who have felt they couldn’t have contributed to CSC without their anonymity.
This way they still can as they don’t NEED to join or post to the fb side.
For people who use fb, the CSC fb will be a prompt to visit the forum, they’ll have the ability to comment on fb and or to visit the forum.

[Lods]

Thanks to Glenn for setting things up
I'm just holding off for the minute.
The main reason is I want to hear from the CSC mods and admin that they're comfortable with the addition of the facebook page.

I'm also keen to see in the next week or two how effective the move is in attracting new members.

I have no problem with the anonymity side of things.
There is no pressure for existing members to join the facebook page anyway as the only real benefit would be if there were crashes on the main site.
They're already rusted on.

Will it be effective?
Will that traffic flow through to the main site?
Will we have a group that never progress past the FB page?
Will some existing members find that they increasingly prefer the facebook site?

The aim is to attract new folks to the main forum.
We don't want to create an alternative CSC.

Now it's probably worth mentioning that our main rival "TalkingCarlton" runs both a Facebook page and a twitter account without any apparent detriment to their main site.
It can work.

We post a photo, news story or thread idea on the Facebook page and then a "comment" or "join the discussion on the forum" link back to the main site.

[DJC]

I think that Lods has summed up the situation very well, although I’m not sure whether the moderators’ views are particularly relevant.  BBB may have something to say though.

I guess it comes down to whether folk are comfortable with Facebook and giving up the anonymity that CSC affords.

Lods’ point about the FB page complementing CSC rather than becoming an alternative is worth bearing in mind.  Should membership of the FB page be limited to CSC forum members?

I suspect not, but it would be worth asking folk wanting to join the page if they are members.

Looking forward to hearing other opinions.

[northernblue]

Thanks to Glenn for setting things up
I'm just holding off for the minute.
The main reason is I want to hear from the CSC mods and admin that they're comfortable with the addition of the facebook page.

I'm also keen to see in the next week or two how effective the move is in attracting new members.

I have no problem with the anonymity side of things.
There is no pressure for existing members to join the facebook page anyway as the only real benefit would be if there were crashes on the main site.
They're already rusted on.

Will it be effective?
Will that traffic flow through to the main site?
Will we have a group that never progress past the FB page?
Will some existing members find that they increasingly prefer the facebook site?

The aim is to attract new folks to the main forum.
We don't want to create an alternative CSC.

Now it's probably worth mentioning that our main rival "TalkingCarlton" runs both a Facebook page and a twitter account without any apparent detriment to their main site.
It can work.

We post a photo, news story or thread idea on the Facebook page and then a "comment" or "join the discussion on the forum" link back to the main site.

Yes again Lods.
Personally I don’t twit or insta.
Thanks for splitting this off into its own thread too ??

[northernblue]

I think that Lods has summed up the situation very well, although I’m not sure whether the moderators’ views are particularly relevant.  BBB may have something to say though.

I guess it comes down to whether folk are comfortable with Facebook and giving up the anonymity that CSC affords.

Lods’ point about the FB page complementing CSC rather than becoming an alternative is worth bearing in mind.  Should membership of the FB page be limited to CSC forum members?

I suspect not, but it would be worth asking folk wanting to join the page if they are members.

Looking forward to hearing other opinions.

I’ve set the fb page so that anyone can find and read it, but only group members can post in it, that should reduce the numbers of undesirables.
Personally if we were to make the fb group totally private it would simply become a mirror of here and in my opinion we want to expand our membership/readership/contributors.

[northernblue]

Not to over stress the point, but [member=61]Baggers[/member] in his post on the fb group this morning has utilised a fb function and posted as a “Group Member” ie anonymously.
He then chose to give his first name and CSC Forum username.

[LP]

I’ve set the fb page so that anyone can find and read it, but only group members can post in it, that should reduce the numbers of undesirables.
Personally if we were to make the fb group totally private it would simply become a mirror of here and in my opinion we want to expand our membership/readership/contributors.

I'm not a big FB fan, used it a little bit but it's overflowing with norbits who want to do nothing more than throw rocks.

[member=39]northernblue[/member] When I visit FB I tend to read and not post, that being the case if there are others like myself can visitors to the CSC FB group see a link to this site without needing to sign up to the group first?

Personally, I see the privacy options of FB as often hijacked by bait and switch tactics, the few times I did sign up to the group I was immediately bombarded with spam and spyware, so I rarely do so anymore.

[Lods]

NB
I've just done a Facebook search.

The page doesn't show up yet on a search for 'Carlton' or 'Carlton Football'.
It does show up as number 4 when you search for 'Carlton Supporters'.

The folks we're looking to attract would probably start with one of the first two.
I'm wondering... are there any tags we could access to raise that profile.

[northernblue]

I'm not a big FB fan, used it a little bit but it's overflowing with norbits who want to do nothing more than throw rocks.

[member=39]northernblue[/member] When I visit FB I tend to read and not post, that being the case if there are others like myself can visitors to the CSC FB group see a link to this site without needing to sign up to the group first?

Personally, I see the privacy options of FB as often hijacked by bait and switch tactics, the few times I did sign up to the group I was immediately bombarded with spam and spyware, so I rarely do so anymore.

At present I believe you can see a link to CSC Forum, could I ask you to visit fb, search Carlton Supporters Club and report what you can see ? (as someone who is not logged into fb)