[Editors] Facebook accounts

[Andrew Whitacre]

My groups (CMS, Center for Future Civic Media, and the GAMBIT Game  
Lab) use personal accounts and we've been comfortable with it. There's  
nothing that shows who's posting to the Page, except at the exact  
moment that you first create it, because you're your own first fan. :)

If you do it from a shared/fake-person account, make sure that login  
info is shared properly. Its a grim reality, but people quit, drop  
out, get fired--or in a CMS admin's tragic case several years ago,  
die--and suddenly a whole department doesn't have access to its  
accounts. That risk is mitigated if you have three or four people  
using personal accounts and assigned as admins.

Andrew Whitacre
Communications Manager
Comparative Media Studies & Center for Future Civic Media
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(617) 324-0490
awhit at mit.edu

On Sep 21, 2010, at 10:01 AM, Lauren J Clark wrote:

> Editors,
>
> When you set up Facebook pages for your organization, whose account  
> do you use? I'm not crazy about the idea of using a personal account  
> to set up a fan page, even though I know I can limit adminstrators'  
> access to just that page.
> I'm curious to hear how others handle this.
>
>
> Lauren Clark
> Communications Officer
> MIT Resource Development
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> ljclark at mit.edu
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