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Facebook Fan Page? Help?

[UPDATE 9 April 02009]

Well, I think the answer to the question

• Would anyone really be interested in this?

is: NO.

So I'm going to let this slide back down the page.

[I'm going to keep this post at the top for a few days, since I'm still looking for help with Facebook Pages.]

I've been helping a friend set up an Etsy shop and develop an online presence to support that. One of the things I've been learning to do is to set up a Facebook Fan Page.

Since she's inspired me to try a shop of my own, I began with a fan page for my shop (not yet established) as practice. I quickly realized that our pages will be quite different. Hers will be centered around her shop and the amazing things she makes. I'm not a crafter, but I can make bookmarks. Here are some I made as gifts about four years ago:

Niki's shop will attract many folks, because her work is so wonderful; mine will most likely be of interest only to friends, family, and readers of my blogs. Her shop will be up within the week, and her blog is already going. My schedule is much more relaxed, and I hadn't intended to publish a fan page for several weeks. But I got a few nudges, some to do with needing to test out how this really works, and then this one:

Poet a Day Blog >> Watermark A Poets Notebook

Allow me to introduce you to Sharon Brogan. No, really - ALLOW me. It is my true pleasure to share her work with you. Versatile, evocative and moving are just a few words that describe Brogan’s poetry - but don’t take my word for it. ...

I thought, my goodness, this is a fan! Maybe I have more?

[There is a lot in this review for me to think about; I'll be sharing that thinking in a later post.]

So this morning I published it: the sbpoet fan page at facebook. Of course, I would like to have fans; but even more, I would like to have feedback, and answers to several questions:

• I believe this can be seen by folks who are not Facebook members, but can you post to the Wall if you are not a Facebook member?
• I'm assuming that you can't 'fan me' if you're not a Facebook member?
• What should/could be the different functions of the Wall and the Discussion Board?
• The Watermark feed is pulled into this Page; does this mean that people who are both my friends and Facebook fans will see everything twice?
• What else would you like to see on this Page?
• Would anyone really be interested in this?

Most of my Facebook 'friends' are actually online friends, who found me through Watermark or Abide. It seems to me, perhaps mistakenly, that they might be more interested in this Page, with fewer, and more targeted updates, than the confusion of writer/ poet/ personal stuff they get now. If they do get all that; I may well be on a less-viewed list.

If you're willing, please check out the Page, and let me know what you think -- either there, or here. And of course, you are welcome to fan me!

Introductions

I had planned to do a series of posts on the comments from the INTRODUCE YOURSELF post, and began that last week -- but I've decided:

• It's too overwhelming to decide what to choose from each comment
• I can't possibly express the flavor of that thread with excerpts
• Better you should just go read it -- and even contribute, if you've a mind to -- yourself

So, I'm going to revert to thanking those folks, from all over the place, who have given thought and time to commenting, and enlivening this blog in my absence:

• John B. | Blog Meridian
• belledame222 | Fetch me my axe
• Cheryl | Journey of Cross and Quill
• Mary Scriver | Prairie Mary
• John Baker | John Baker's Blog
• DrMeglet | randomness revovled around me
• Megan | Flaming Renaissance
• Cathy | The Quiet One
• Laura | Moments, Musings
• Jacquie | wild ink
• meika | meika loofs samorzewski
• pam | MarillaAnne
• Endment | Endment
• Leesa | Peace of My Mind
• Chia
• Theresa Quintanilla | QViews
• Pearl | Humanyms
• Michael | Stick Poet Super Hero
• Bitteroot | Bitteroot and Bergamot
• Anne | Ample Sanity
• Crafty Green Poet
• Lori Witzel | chatoyance
• Rachel | Tales of My Thirties
• bobbi | KirkWorks Fine Arts
• mike | scandalize my name
• sandra
• leah | Creative Every Day
• Tammy Vitale
• somewhere joe | Hooky Beach
• Frances Sbrocchi | Fran's poems
• P.B. Adams | starsequence [popups]
• barbara | barbtries a blog
• Robert Twist | Fantastic Poems
• catnapping | the odd neighbor
• Linda | Straight Up and Slightly Dirty
• sdruthla | Creative Hoarding
• Wm. Rike | arcane matter out of place
• Nancy Bea | www.GenreCookShop.com
• neha | Within/Without
• Natalie | BLAUGUSTINE
• schmutzie | Milkmoney
• Sarah | Sarah's writing journal
• Robert | Robert Peake
• antonia | flowerville
• Coral | CoralPoetry
• Ozymandiaz | Ocellus
• Francesca Gray | Pushing an Elephant Up the Stairs
• Shann Palmer | Shann Palmer says
• Daphne | somewhere i have never travelled
• poet | HIDEAWAYPOET
• Patricia (a/k/a Roswila) | ROSWILA’S DREAM & POETRY REALM
• T Caber
• Edie | A bunch of wordz

There's lots to explore up there; I hope you'll click a few links and discover that for yourself. 

Visitors, Readers, Comments, & Post #1200

Twelve hundred posts. I never could have imagined that when I began this experiment in January 2004.

Certainly I could not have imagined 169,000 hits, and 3200 comments. Blogging stretches the imagination in many dimensions.

While I was mostly absent these past few months, you kept Watermark alive with your comments on the Introductions post, and I thank you for it. Just before I took my unanticipated break, I began to post about those comments, and I'm going to begin that again.

At first, I thought I would do it all in one post -- but there are sixty-six comments now, so I'm going to break this up into a few each week. This way, none of us will feel overwhelmed. In the meantime, I've removed the stickiness of that post so it will no longer be on top, but you can still read -- and contribute -- by clicking INTRODUCE YOURSELF on the sidebar.

So, to begin at the beginning -- I invited you all to introduce yourselves, and answer a few questions about how you view creativity:

Facebook: Maybe? No? Yes?

I'm in the process of reviewing my internet commitments, as I try to focus my energy on what is most helpful and rewarding, and reduce the clutter that appears every time I sign on to my 'start page' (Netvibes, at present.) I have, at one time or another, joined almost everything that's out there. Initially, this was due to my excitement about the whole new internet experience; a desire to try it all. 

Bubbles in Cyberspace

From Life Is But A Dream