New Article – Facebook Pages New Features — Introduction to Roles, Scheduled Posts & More

New Article – Facebook Pages New Features — Introduction to Roles, Scheduled Posts & More

Face­book launched busi­ness pages back in Novem­ber 2007, and although there have been a num­ber of changes along the way (intro­du­cing timeline for pages for one), noth­ing is quite as rad­ical (and wel­come) as the ones made a few weeks back.

Between 2007 and 2010, Face­book called these pages “Fan Pages” due to the fact that you as a per­sonal user of Face­book could become a “fan” of a brand, product, place or celeb. In April 2010, Face­book changed the name of these to just plain “Pages” and instead of becom­ing a “fan” of them, you could “like” them.

Any­one can cre­ate a Face­book page, but to cre­ate it, you do have to do this through your per­sonal Face­book account. This can be frus­trat­ing for some people who like to have a strict divid­ing line between per­sonal and busi­ness and it does bring up some secur­ity con­cerns. How­ever I do think Facebook’s new fea­tures go some way to address these con­cerns with the intro­duc­tion of roles being the import­ant one.

http://iag.me/socialmedia/guides/facebook-pages-new-features-introduction-to-roles-scheduled-posts/