JNS Facebook page

[keitaro]

i will open one tonight i have plenty of time to update it !!

[Guest ___]

Cool, thx Keitaro. I'd volunteer, but I'm not on FB much these days as I spend most of my time on LinkedIn

[Dani]

What about Google+

[keitaro]

http://www.facebook.com/pages/JNS-Japanese-Modelling-and-Railway-Enthusiasts/118717184889213

 

created a basic page for now.

 

Hope you don't mind me using the forum logo.

 

I was thinking I might kick off with changing the pic weekly or so with a loco.

 

Please join up and say hi.

[Tecchan]

Great!

A nice and simple Facebook page directly related to the forum!

[cteno4]

Keitaro,

 

thanks for doing this, cant hurt to troll facebook. are you going to monitor our wall to make sure there is nothing offensive posted and also answer questions? if not then we should turn off the wall. folks get frustrated if they ask a question and no one from the org responds and sites that dont monitor an open wall become graffiti spots...

 

dani,

 

are you on google plus yet? if so perhaps investigate what jns exposure we could have there and what work it would take.

 

cheers

 

jeff

[keitaro]

i can check it frequently thats fine about replying to questions i may direct them to join our forum 

[keitaro]

So I have started it and decided that once or twice a week I will post up latest big hit articles or well discussed articles.

 

I started today by posting a new to dcc automation and linked in Martijn's dcc part 1 - 3 and setssu hokkaido short line video from NB.

 

I provide the link and basic description to get people onto the forum.

 

If you have any recomended posts to put up PM me or any pictures you'd like to post for the wall let me know or join and post em yourself

 

[Tecchan]

A link in the header of the forum would be neat too! :-)

 

I don't know if any of you have railfans on your facebook friends but a button "share on facebook(twitter, G+, etc ?!)" could be interesting.

[cteno4]

i dont think we necessarily want to drive folks to the facebook page from the forum, its more of trolling facebook for folks that might be interested in joining the forum.

 

for us all the action happens w/in the forum so its more of just getting the word out, like placing ads around for folks to come over and check it out. we are not going to start having any activity on facebook with jns stuff outside of a description and the few current examples of forum threads.

 

keitaro, offer to post a teaser or two a week to interesting threads is great as it will help show folks the interesting chatter going on over here and keeping that live helps show that this is not dead (the problem with static facebook org pages).

 

on facebook you can send your facebook friend the facebook page for them to check it out and perhaps get interested. outside of face book (even inside facebook) the best way to tell your friends is to just draft up a nice little paragraph talking about jns and then drop that in correspondences with train friend to tell them about the forum and see if they might bite. much more personal and better way than sending them to facebook to see an ad to then come to the forum. your direct correspondence is the best ad jns can get!

 

cheers

 

jeff

[Tecchan]

I think that if we have a Facebook page we should tell the visitors an obvious manner. It's also a way to join the community. Facebook will also allow a more direct way to communicate between members.

If the Facebook page is just here to say "Look, we're on Facebook" or only to try to drag people from Facebook to the forum, I think it's useless.

 

Last but not least: if someone "likes" the page, this will be posted on his wall and his friends will see it, maybe like themselves and become a member here.

If we have a page and we don't want people to go on if from the site it's a bit silly don't you think?!

 

Just my opinion here ;-)

[cteno4]

Kumo,

 

you do have a point that it would be good to let jns members know easily where the facebook page is so they can join and like to help publicize it. we just need to be clear that this is what the facebook like is for, not that we have some sort of other thing going on over on facebook that jns folks need to be really involved with other than marketing jns to newbies.

 

there are basically two options here for us with facebook.

 

Option A

basically have our ad page up on facebook so those trolling around can find it or your friends see it thru your liking it. a like is ok (sort of like a static page, it lacks much spark), but is not as good a marketing tool with your friends as a direct pitch to them in your words, with sincerity and mixed with something related to those that would be interested. this is the powerful tool that helps the most to get folks to come over to really take the time to check jns out. businesses are having a great time with high like numbers, but the big emperor has no clothes thing going on is that in many cases those high numbers are not connected with new business, eyeballs, getting folks to actually do anything, etc, they usually just become a boast to their bosses and others. bosses get caught up in the short term, quarter to quarter keep the stock price/numbers high game these days (little thinking about the long game or future value) and are happy getting big numbers but are not questioning the bang for the buck or what those numbers then equate to in terms of anything tangible to the business.

 

i dont see it as dragging people from facebook to jns as its using facebook to find folks that would be interested in jns as a specific tool. facebook would not do what we do here well at all.

 

to do good facebook advertising it is better to have a bit of q/a discussion going on and examples of what is going on on jns. probably dont want it to get too out of hand or it becomes a monster to try and maintain well.

 

having just a static page is pretty useless, but could not hurt to do so, might catch a fish or two...

 

Option B

start an active facebook group dealing with japanese trains w/in facebook. this would take someone really trying to run a group like this and would not nearly be as robust as what we have here on the jns forum. it might actually end up fracturing the market which would not be good at all. i think the limits of facebook would end up making it a pretty shallow wall feed situation with little deep discussion, lack of much history to research, etc.

 

do you see another option?

 

jeff

[keitaro]

i want to use it to

 

1. bring more mebers to the forum

2. a place for current and non members to socialise in a different way and to share pics of their models etc

3. if i get time perhaps load list of newest pre orders etc.

[Dani]

I joint JNS facebook page, good work!

 

I was investigating Google+ (I'm on it since last month), but unfortunately it's just possible for personal pages (no company pages or group/fan pages). They are still developing this part and Google advised that all not personal pages will be closed, so we'll have to wait. I'll have an eye on it....  it seems like a really open social network like tweeter (you don't need to be confirming friends) but with all the advantages of facebook sharing photos, videos, ... plus google advantages (collaborative work, automatic update via picassa, integrated with all google products...).

 

I'll post any news about it.

 

Regards,

 

Dani.

[Martijn Meerts]

Dani, don't forget the "advantage" of Google pasting adds all over the place, and gathering information about which sites you visit ;)

[Guest ___]

I'll pass on Google+ The larger Google gets the more I have concerns over that company.

[CaptOblivious]

Dani, don't forget the "advantage" of Google pasting adds all over the place, and gathering information about which sites you visit ;)

 

 

Unlike Facebook, right?

 

I'm all over Google+ myself right now. I would totally support the creation of a JNSForum account there once non-person entity accounts are permitted :D

[Martijn Meerts]

Facebook is almost as bad :)

[Lawrence]

I did shut the facebook page down as there seemed to be little interest following the initial surge, I would occasionally post links to some of the wiki articles and to the forum itself, Toni and 1 or 2 others would post from time to time but there was little other activity on there.

 

Coupled with modding on ngaugeforum, work (or forthcoming redundancy as I found out yesterday!) and a few other things going on I didn't have the time to regularly update or promote it.

 

If accepted, I would be happy to join the new group and hope that all the old group members would sign up too.

 

A quick thanks to those that did participate in the old group and especially to Toni for maintaining his enthusiasm too

 

Lawrence

[Guest ___]

I did shut the facebook page down as there seemed to be little interest following the initial surge, I would occasionally post links to some of the wiki articles and to the forum itself, Toni and 1 or 2 others would post from time to time but there was little other activity on there.

 

Coupled with modding on ngaugeforum, work (or forthcoming redundancy as I found out yesterday!) and a few other things going on I didn't have the time to regularly update or promote it.

 

If accepted, I would be happy to join the new group and hope that all the old group members would sign up too.

 

A quick thanks to those that did participate in the old group and especially to Toni for maintaining his enthusiasm too

 

Lawrence

 

I think the experiment essentially proved why when our past discussions i the admin forum to why we chose not to do a FB page for these forums sooner than the attempt last fall. Still it was worth a try.

[keitaro]

So i will link club news and exhibition info. so if you have club news or exhibition info create a thread and i will post the news link on fb to the thread to get people to join the discussion.

 

Be sure to include country and location of said club/exhibition in the  thread.

[keitaro]

anyone have photos to they want to post on the wall?

[linkey]

Somehow FB is telling me that I have got too many groups and I can't join in with any other group pages. But I have liked the page so I get some notification of what's happening.

 

I will see if I can delete some more groups so I can join up. Then I wil lbe able to post some model railway photos of the AJMRG, or I could refer them to the website. But want to do via the JNS FB page.

[keitaro]

i have been unable to update fb as my phone is in repairs.

 

I usually post stuff from the mobile as i don't use fb at work or much at home.will some time soo do an update though. mihgt post some videos of some of my new models.

[Tecchan]

I posted something today.

 

The hint on Facebook is to "like" posts. If you click "like", people will see "John Smith liked this post on JNS Forum" and it will drag traffic on the page.