Comments on: Facebook Group Membership Building

By: Kostya

Kostya — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:48:41 +0000

Hello

I ran a group that is political and regional at the same time. It’s about getting region to become federalized. Any ide how to promote such group?

Thanks!

By: Kevin Bondelli

Kevin Bondelli — Fri, 29 May 2009 22:02:15 +0000

That’s a good point, though some people feel uncomfortable sending friend requests to people that they don’t personally know.

You are absolutely right about being personal. It makes a big difference.

By: Kristin from SD

Kristin from SD — Mon, 25 May 2009 04:28:34 +0000

I also think it really helps to friend request people who join your group. When I am planning a meeting or an event, I spend a lot of time leaving personal messages on people’s pages or instant messaging people to see if they are coming. People are more likely to become active offline if you take the time to get to know them personally!
Thanks for the tips, Kevin.

By: Will

Will — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 05:19:48 +0000

Thank you for your help it is greatly appreciated.

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 17:08:46 +0000

Some great points there, I'm working on some facebook apps so I'll need all the facebook promo tips I can get!

By: nathan

nathan — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:06:29 +0000

Hey there and thanks for the article. I’ve been looking everywhere to try and find out “how” to invite people to your Facebook group. I wanted to start a group for a local beer club I’m involved with, but would I have to invite people one at a time?

It’d be great if Facebook would just provide me with a link that I could email regularly to folks….

Any ideas as to how a link like this might be achieved?

By: Luis

Luis — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:26:40 +0000

Hello Kevin. My question is why to build a facebook group. I have one that reached 5000 users, and it lost the hability to send message to all members. Since i can´t write to members, what is the purpose of having a big group?.

Build a 10k group on my experience is just easy. 20k people depends on the subjecto of the group. Above that, the subject have to be universal, multicultural and interesting (or interactive), but please, give me some advise here, why?. How can it be useful?

Great blog!.

Luis

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By: Dan Tompkins

Dan Tompkins — Thu, 22 May 2008 14:50:34 +0000

I also think groups with content are much more engaging that groups that simply use messages as calls to action for specific events.

Young Dems? Video clips of YDs on local news, pictures from events, discussion topics that have more than the 2 or 3 admins/officers.