Hi Paul here from PRwilson Media.
Events like this one I'm taking part in this weekend are a great way on Facebook to encourage
participation and I'll show you in this video how you can discover events near to you , how
you can set up an event whether it's public or private and all the options available to
you.
Here we go.
So logged in from your personal profile, go down the left hands side you can select events.
And any events that you are already definitely committed to going to you've said either interested
or going they will be promoted there.
And there's the option discover.
And I would recommend have a look at events out there already to get an idea of how you
could set yours up.
So if we choose by location that's fine, but we could also choose by category.
So if I say causes in the Newark area and we can see there the santa fun run
And so I've got the checkbox saying I'm going I can straight away see the date the time
confirmed , get a map of the place, if there's tickets to buy there's a link one of the organizers
can put in there to allow you to purchase the tickets which takes you through to an
official website in this case.
And just like any page or group or even your personal areas on Facebook there's opportunity
to add posts You can go to discussion and you can even post as well as updates from
what you are doing you can even add photos create polls.
Obviously the person who creates the event can control what's allowed to be posted.
And you can just see some of the interaction there.
If you want to create an event there's a nice blue button , where you can say create event.
The two choices are private or public.
If you were to go down the line of private event that's something only created from your
own personal Facebook account only invited guests will see it and you can then optionally
choose to allow all of the guests to invite other people as well . But as it says here
if it's private you won't be able to change to public later.
But again you can specify the name of the event the location , date and time , description.
Firstly choose a theme for it and then add any content.
And if you want to change now from a private to a public event you have to choose a page
which is connected with it.
So it's got to be one of your Facebook pages.
So if I choose PRwilson Media then I could type in the basic info about the event change
the photos , whether it's a recurring event or just a one time event.
Add the details add some keywords to allow it to be found and the good thing is you don't
have to create it all at once.
You can save the draft.
Here you control who's allowed to post into the event ,do they have to be approved first
or are they going to be allowed straight away.
And then in here guest list you can say display the guest list or not display the guest list.
If you are worried about numbers of people who definitely are going to attend and you
don't want to show too few people so you could leave that unchecked.
When you hit create it will immediately say well hang on you haven't put all the details
in.
So you've got to fill out all the details and then you've got an event.
And that will be listed from your profile and you can list it on the page that it's
linked to .
One final thing to note is if you want to create an event directly from within your
page you'll see this option is there.
Create an event.
And again you can fill out the details in the exact same way.
Now if you don't have those little boxes appearing on your page, all you need to do is go to
the top right corner and you can see options like create an event.
So that's how you create one.
You can do it from your personal or your page public or private and you can even link it
to things like eventbrite, specialist applications for events.
They can integrate fully with Facebook so there are loads of different ways to promote
what you are going to do.
That's it from me , I'm Paul from PRwilson Media, your social media personal trainer.
Cheers.