Thorsday Research Project
Webcommgard: Subduing Loki's Web Mischief
Social Media angers the gods, but soothes mortals!
There are some things we should consider for Facebook.
How long do we want to spend each week updating the material?
Who will do this and how often will they do it?
Notes on the actual setup
On the login page, under the Sign Up button you'll find: 'To create a page for a celebrity, band or business, click here'. Click there. Choose local and in the drop down menu choose Education. Fill out the rest according to your situation.
NOTE: when a fan page is created it must be 'connected' to a real person's profile on facebook. I made a fake page using some of my information so the fan page could exist. When you log in, you will be taken to the profile of the person who is 'connected' to the fan page. You need to navigate to the fan page from there.
Populating the fan page: Select 'Edit Page' (found underneath the main image space on the left). On the edit page you can change just about anything. If you wish to make custom content (a new box or tab on the main page) you'll need to download an application called FBML. You can use it to customize the content of a box (best coded in HTML, but it does accept some plaintext also)
Twitterfeed is a free service that will post to a Twitter account any update detected by the service at a specified RSS feed. If we can find a feasible to set up the RSS feed, we can automate some of the twitter posts.
This is a very simple Twitter widget I found. It can be styled in any way we choose and could have several potential uses.
http://twitter.com/widgets/which_widget
<div id="twitter_div">
<h2 class="sidebar-title">IdahoStateU Twitter Feed</h2>
<ul id="twitter_update_list"></ul>
<a href="http://twitter.com/IdahoStateU" id="twitter-link" style="display:block;text-align:right;">Follow us on Twitter!?!?!?</a>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://twitter.com/javascripts/blogger.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/IdahoStateU.json?callback=twitterCallback2&count=3"></script>