facebook page question

July 14, 2009 11:34 AM

Question regarding facebook page for a business.

I am doing a six month marketing internship at a new magazine. My first assignment is to create a facebook page to help promote the magazine.

My problem is that I need to be able to let others access and edit the page at the end of my internship. I created the page but it seems that it is only accessible through my personal facebook account. Facebook's help page say:

Maintaining multiple accounts, regardless of the purpose, is a violation of Facebook’s Terms of Use. If you already have a personal account, then we cannot allow you to create business accounts for any reason.

Is it possible to let others have admin access to this page? Or should I just create a facebook "group" instead of a "page"?

posted by jschu to computers & internet (5 comments total)

Would it be possible to set up a 'dummy' email account at the magazine, and then use that as the placeholder account for the Facebook page? Something along the lines of [e-mail] -- and then the account and password are passed along to whoever is in charge of maintaining the page at the time?

Personally, I'm not a fan of groups for businesses if it's going to be updated frequently. I never think to check them, and the pages have the update notifications that pop up on the upper corner of the screen.
posted by alynnk at 11:40 AM on July 14

You'll probably need to have a separate account, set to be accessed through a business email address, to do this. eg, instead of [e-mail], you'd have [e-mail].
posted by Tomorrowful at 11:42 AM on July 14

Once the page is published, all you have to do is add other members as administrators (I don't think this option is available until the page is live). [Edit page --> Admins --> Add ]. The only catch is that they have to have Facebook accounts themselves. When administrators post it looks like the "page" posted--it doesn't show individual users names or icons.
posted by Kimberly at 11:43 AM on July 14 [2 favorites]

You do not need to create a separate Facebook account--as you mentioned that is a violation of their terms of service. It's only a PitA if you want to add a twitter feed to a page and you already have one set up for your personal account--you can't have both.
posted by Kimberly at 11:45 AM on July 14

I managed several social networking sites for a national political campaign. Kimberly has the answer.
posted by awesomebrad at 11:46 AM on July 14