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[benhall]

What are the chances of us getting our own page on Facebook?

 

[Jim W]

WHY????? Why do you want this?/

 

[EGroeneveld]

Agree, I'm on Facebook all the time. Its easier to pass on pictures and industry updates.

 

[JohnBoy5]

do you mean like a tdr thing to click "like"?

 

[benhall]

I'd be willing to bet that if we were on Facebook, our membership numbers would increase.

 

[Matt400]

WHY????? Why do you want this?/

x2, I don't get it except as a promotional window for TDR. I am not on FB so maybe thats why I don't get it.

 

[KKohagen]

As one who uses FB, Facebook, a lot I do believe that a fan page may increase traffic to the website. FB for me is a smaller version of this Website as far as my own "addiction" goes. One of the only websites I go on more than this one is a local radio station's site and Facebook.

 

[JKreiss]

I agree that a Facebook page will bring more people to the website. With increased membership, and dues, we could really grow and help a lot more people. I'm in.

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

I've just recently started using facebook to learn what the big deal is. What are you guys taking about as a facebook page though? A facebook group? Facebook pages are supposed to be individuals - not businesses, right? Still learning about it.

 

[fest3er]

I've just recently started using facebook to learn what the big deal is. What are you guys taking about as a facebook page though? A facebook group? Facebook pages are supposed to be individuals - not businesses, right? Still learning about it.

Yes, a 'group' is what they mean. I created a group for my church: Welcome to Facebook it is closed, accessible by parishioners only; I wanted to keep it relevant to the parish, so members can keep up with the goings-on in the parish, and with each other.



For TDR, it could be a decent tool to 'promote' TDR; think of it as free advertising. However, to be useful, it would have to be an open group, allowing anyone to join. But with being open comes the problem of spammers, malcontents, ne'er-do-wells and others of that ilk.



I could create a "TDR Fan Club" group and leave it open for anyone to join. I could choose some people to be the 'board of directors' or admins, thus spreading tasks and responsibilities among several people. Or I could let it go in any direction its 'members' want. TDR wouldn't need to have any official involvement in it at all.



Robin could create a "TurboDieselRegister" group and make it 'invitation only' (i. e. , people ask to join and the group's admin decide who to let in and who to leave out in the cold). This group would be more useful as a means of disseminating notices of TDR events and haps. It could be a vehicle to communicate with both members who have facebook pages as well as non-members.



If y'all wanted, you could set up a facebook login on the TDR web site (lets people use their FB login credentials to access TDR); these logins could be restricted in what they could do, akin to the 'trial memberships' you now have.



For that matter, you could create a Google Group for TDR, or group pages on any number of other social networking sites. The trick would be integrating dissemination of information with the TDR admin pages, so that notices need be entered once only and the server would then send them out to all the social networking sites. Or the server could peruse the TDR calendar and send out advance notices of what's coming up. Or it could send out member-only articles once the member-only time period has expired, or send out carefully chosen articles from the magazine some period of time before, or after, an issue ships. All kinds of things can be done in the realm of 'communication'. But there *is* a cost involved; it would require periodic if not constant human effort to manage it and do it well, and it would require programming effort to make it work seamlessly and easily.



That all said, there's a lot I don't care for with FB and Google groups. Perhaps it's because I'm a curmudgeon, because I don't ascribe to the hive mentality. Perhaps it's because there are no language filters (that I know of); I don't particularly care for some of the language used and really don't care for some of the sort of stuff that my 13-yo niece finds. I use FB to maintain a thread of current contact with extended family and a few friends; I only look at it once or twice a week.



Geez. Just *look* at what my diarrhetic fingers have done again!

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

I've been researching this some. Were you guys talking about groups or a facebook page like this one: F1 Games from Codemasters | Facebook ?

 

[EGroeneveld]

Yes, also look at Warn, BMW USA, Corvette, Camping World, etc... for other ideas.

 

[VLopresti]

..... here is one for Trailer Life Magazine:



Trailer Life Magazine | Facebook

 

[JohnBoy5]

i think they are on facebook now, not sure if its a official one... . i just did a search for turbo diesel register and pressed like. the thing i am not sure about is there are 21 people that like it but i cant see who they are to talk to them.....