Facebook Places for Complete IdiotsPresentation Transcript
Facebook Places for Complete Idiots
Friday, October 22, 2010
Facebook Places for Complete Idiots
What is Facebook Places?
1) A location-based mobile application that...
2) Allows users to check-in to places they hang out, and...
3) Share that info with their Facebook friends.
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How can I use Facebook Places for my nonprofit?
1) Following is an fictionalized example demonstrating the basic principles of how
Facebook Places allows friends to connect in the real world.
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1) Kivi and I attend a huge bake sale event sponsored by “Muffin Mania” to
raise money for a local nonprofit.
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’s us
right
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e
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Facebook Places for Complete Idiots
2) We want to find our good friend Jane, but the crowd is huge and we’re
not sure if she has arrived yet or not.
Ther
e’s Ja
ne
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Facebook Places for Complete Idiots
3) We use my iPhone to log into the Facebook Application and find “Muffin
Mania” listed nearby.
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e’s M
uffin
Man
ia
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4) I see that she has checked in to the “Muffin Mania” Facebook Place.
Ther
e’s Ja
ne
That
’s us
right
ther
e
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5) Kivi and I also check into “Muffin Mania” and tag Jane who get’s a message
on her phone. We meet up and have a great time at the event.
Ther
e’s Ja
ne ?!
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’s us
right
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e
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6) Meanwhile, all of our collective Facebook friends are exposed to an
amazingly cool nonprofit that they weren’t aware of before.
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Other resources:
How will your nonprofit use Facebook Places?
Video On Claiming Your Nonprofit’s Facebook Places Page
How can your nonprofit benefit from Facebook Places?
Download the Facebook Places Guide for Businesses And Nonprofits
Download the complete Facebook Guide for Small Nonprofits
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