Using Facebook as a Web Page for Organizations or Clubs

Web pages are great if your organization has money to pay for the web space, the domain name (hopefully your organization has a unique name so no one else has taken it), and someone to design, update and monitor it.  You have to have a monitor watching for comments that are in poor taste or lewd, so they can be removed immediately.

Fortunately we now have Facebook. Almost everyone uses it, even if only for keeping up with photos of the grandkids (or for adult children to keep up with where their parents are going and how they are spending their inheritance - ha, ha, ha).  Anyone can start a page and then add administrators (fellow board members or club members) so responsibility for posting regularly, uploading photos, and monitoring comments and posts can be shared by several people. If one administrator is busy with another organization, then someone else can fill in.

I started 2 for organizations for which I am on the boards, and one for which I am chairman.  I belong to several other organizations that have Facebook pages. It is an easy way to check on what is coming up or seeing photos of an event afterwards.  I highly recommend it for small or large organizations.  Make sure you have a large photo for the top, and a smaller one for the profile picture (a logo or something distinctive about your group).  To add an administrator, the originator of the page has to friend the person first, then add them to the administrative list for the group page. They will get an email that has to be answered to finalize the assignment.

Many places in Lakewood now have their own pages: the new Mama's Bakery (near 512), the  Asian Market (and Korean restaurant on Bridgeport), Lakewold Gardens, Lakewood Historical Society (their wall has posts and photos), American Legion (Edward B. Rhodes - Parkland Post 2), Lakewood United of Lakewood, Washington (there is a Lakewood in Colorado also), 'Lakewood, Washington', 'Lakewood, Washington-Municipal Government, Ft. Steilacoom Park and Ft. Steilacoom dog park.  Check some of these pages out and let me know what you think of them. If you are a restaurant in Lakewood, WA please post a comment so we know where you are at.  Thank you.