I've had a bit of a hunt around, and my understanding is that groups and pages cannot be merged or changed. So unfortunately we don't have much control in that area, especially where pages have been started by independant users. We can't move the 'likes'. As I mentioned before, I think the first thing would be to put a friendly message on each page asking the administrator to get in touch and become involved in the project. I've spent half an hour or so searching for help and still can't find how to contact Facebook support! It may not exactly exist. So I think it's basically up to us. Unless someone knows 'someone on the inside' :) I wouldn't waste too much energy worrying about pages we cannot control; simply post a link there to the official pages and make it a 'housekeeping' task to revisit them once every couple of months. Remember it's not an 'either-or' - many people join multiple groups. It's a problem that the FB search function seems to rank results almost randomly. I found this nifty table that lays out the differences: http://compukol.com/blogs/compukol/facebook-fan-page-vs-group/ My personal approach would be to work on the largest group and largest fan page belonging to us, and if we have admin of any smaller groups or pages, to contact members and fans suggestion they switch to the other group. After a couple of months, delete any of our extra pages/groups. cheers Helen
On the fact that we have 7 (!) openSUSE pages on facebook: Let's try and get pages that are essentially the same to close up shop. It doesn't make sense to split our membership over several pages - I'd rather have one with 10.000 members than 5 with each 2000. I'm more than willing to contact the 'owners' of each of those pages, if someone can tell me how to get in contact with them.
Still however I have not heard any answers to a few questions I have: - does anyone know if it is possible to MOVE members from one group to another (merge groups)? - it seems there are different types of pages - groups, interest pages, forums?, who can explain this to me? And can it all be merged or do we need at least three pages like one interest, one group and one forum? - it is unclear to me how to contact owners of pages... how to do that?
Based on the above we clearly need to get rid of pages and move the likes (as far as possible) to one.
I'd say we should either pick the first openSUSE mentioned (most active) or the "interest" as that might be more appropriate.
Either way, who can add owners to the pages above, I dunno where to see that in FB?
Once we've made a choice for one page we can try and close the others, see if it is possible to move 'likes' and do a news article to get ppl to like the new page.
Cheers, Jos
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