Deborah Gilbert-Rogers*
When you receive a message from a Facebook connection, you usually also receive an email letting you know (assuming your settings are defined for this) that so-and-so has sent you a message. At the very least you get a notification, when you login to Facebook, showing you that a message is indeed waiting. Or at least that is how it used to be.
If you’ve enabled integrated Facebook messaging – Facebook is slow rolling this feature – where friends can contact you via messages, chat, or email, the messages may showup any number of places and you may not know you have one. This has happened to me a number of times, where friends have sent private messages only to have these messages appear in a chat (which I didn’t see until after the friend signed off) and vice versa.
Communication sent from the Pages you’ve “liked” can be equally hard to see.
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While you may not always be interested in the content sent by the Pages you’ve connected with, sometimes they contain important information about upcoming events or changes to contact information, etc. And as a marketing and PR professional you want to make sure your followers are getting the information they need to stay informed and engaged.
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> Solution 1: To see messages from Pages, you need to click on “Messages” located in the left-sidebar of your feed. Then click on Updates. Then you can sort through, read, and delete the Page Updates/Messages as you would normal messages from connections.
> Solution 2: If your Facebook messaging is intergrated, then go to “Messages” in the left-sidebar of your feed. This will show you all of the messages from your friends, regardless of whether they came from Facebook chat, private messages, or Facebook email. To see updates from the Pages you “like,” simply click “Other” in the left-sidebar.
> Solution 3: Visit a specific page and elect to receive updates from them by “e-mail.” In the left-sidebar of the page, you may have to scroll to see this, there will be options to Subscribe via SMS, or RSS.
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Are you seeing all the content from your Facebook pages you follow? How do you think these settings affect your ability to connect with your audiences and friends? Please share your thoughts by leaving a comment here on Fresh Ideas.
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Bio: After graduating from Rider University, where she received a B.A. in English-writing and minor degrees in Gender Studies and French, Deborah joined the BurrellesLuce Marketing team in 2007. As a marketing specialist she continues to help develop the company’s thought leadership and social media efforts, including the copywriting and editing of day-to-day marketing initiatives and management of the BurrellesLuce Fresh Ideas blog. Facebook: BurrellesLuce Twitter: @BurrellesLuce LinkedIn: dgrogers
