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 answers 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, 2009

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, 2009

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, 2009

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, 2009

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, 2009