Facebook Profiles vs. Fan Pages:Separating your public network from your personal network

Objectives

• Discuss Blackboard/Facebook integration

• Identify the differences between Facebook Profiles and Facebook Pages

• View sample Facebook Pages

• Create a Facebook Fan Page

Blackboard Sync• Students opt in

• Login to course

• Select “Community Tab”

• Click “Add the Blackboard Sync App…”

• Updates will automatically be pushed to student Facebook accounts

Profile vs. Page

• Personal• “Friend” requests• Friend profiles visible• Write on wall/send

comments, etc.• Applications• Friend limitation

• Public• Become a “Fan”• Profiles not visible• Send updates/ads to Fans• Applications• Searchable• Viewable by anyone• No Fan limitations• Edit Panel• Administrators

Facebook Profile Facebook Page

Facebook Page Examples• The University of Arizona

• The Chronicle of Higher Education

• University of Michigan School of Public Health

• The Center for Career Education, Columbia University

• Seton Hall University

Creating a Facebook Page

• http://www.facebook.com/business/?pages

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