Source: using blogs to manage my content on FB – Google Search
“The top cons of blogging directly on Facebook include:
No organization tools: There’s no way to organize or categorize your Facebook blog posts.
I can catalogue and categorise each post and keep a link here. I can use PressThis, I can also use #TAGS in FB and I can search from inside FB
Limited formatting features: Blog post formatting capabilities on Facebook are extremely limited; poor formatting often leads to a subpar reader experience.
This leads me to be brief and to link back to here,
Pages and some groups allow for formatting, such as embedded links, every page post is hand-constructed
I can see if audio/visual presentations help, my aim is low volume, less than once a day
Hard to build a brand: You don’t get a private domain on Facebook, which makes building a brand and reputation for your blog extremely difficult.
Branding is an interesting question, I would prefer to keep my name out of it to a large extent because becoming a Guru is antithetical to P2P.
In a sense the page, group and posts are a brand, is this good or bad?
Search disadvantage: You have more control over search engine optimization (SEO) on your own blog than you do on Facebook blog posts.
The blog leads to FB
Monetization is limited: There aren’t as many ways to monetize your blog on Facebook as there are on your own website. For example, you can’t make money from advertising on your Facebook blog.
NO MONEY, that’s not the objective
I would aim to optimise participation across a broad field and participate in a learning circle
Complete blog content is hard for users to find: While new Facebook blog posts show up fine in feeds, it takes a lot of effort for followers to go back and find your other blog posts; that’s something visitors to a standalone blog site can do quite easily.
I can link to other posts within FB
I can link to blog and include the whole category (#TODO Can I?)
Facebook is not widely used for traditional blogging: While people promote their blogs on Facebook, the platform is not as popular for hosting actual longer-form (over 300 words) blog posts.
That’s how it is, make it a feature
Could lose all your work: You’re at Facebook’s mercy; they could remove your blog content at any time (though you’d likely receive a warning before they did so).”
They can close down a group or an admin can boot you out
Part of the process is backing up
- take a copy of everything I post, as a post but there are also local versions with more details and linkages within my blog
- I need a spare identity ideally one that is a neutral manager of the FB assets and join her into important sites
So then, lets make templates Templates