HOW TO USE A FACEBOOK GROUP AS A PROJECT MANAGEMENT TOOLJohn Mark Fitzpatrick, Founder and Managing Director, Future Perfect Moscow

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Go to Create Group on the left hand side of your facebook homepage.

Select the people who you are involved in your project

HOW TO USE A FACEBOOK GROUP AS A PROJECT MANAGEMENT TOOLJohn Mark Fitzpatrick, Founder and Managing Director, Future Perfect Moscow

Select Secret from the privacy drop-down box – because you don't need anyone else nosing into your projects

Give your project a name

Then press create

Post To do lists on the wall for all to see. All group members will be notified of the new message

HOW TO USE A FACEBOOK GROUP AS A PROJECT MANAGEMENT TOOLJohn Mark Fitzpatrick, Founder and Managing Director, Future Perfect Moscow

Click on the icon at the top of the page to change the photo. Upload a photo from your computer.

Click on Create Doc to make a shared document where changes can be tracked.

HOW TO USE A FACEBOOK GROUP AS A PROJECT MANAGEMENT TOOLJohn Mark Fitzpatrick, Founder and Managing Director, Future Perfect Moscow

To create meetings for your group members click on Create Event

You can organise a meeting just like you would using google or outlook (although there is no calendar view as of yet). Be careful to make the meeting private by unticking the 'anyone can view' box. This is very important to keep everything private.

Be sure to message the people you have invited when the meeting gets close.

The meeting shows up on the page. All you need to do to remind others is to comment on the meeting or send a message to those attending the event.

You can upload presentation via pdf or slideshare as usual.

HOW TO USE A FACEBOOK GROUP AS A PROJECT MANAGEMENT TOOLJohn Mark Fitzpatrick, Founder and Managing Director, Future Perfect Moscow

If you want to chat to all the members of the group who are online at once. Click on the Chat with group link on the right hand side

The difference here is that you can chat with more than one person and the person's profile picture is visible.

Here are some links to Facebook help to explain the privacy measure described above

http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=982 - Groups Privacy

http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=829 - Event Privacy

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