Facebook groups such as this one have become invaluable ways to share
resources build a sense of community and there are many features in 2020 that can
really help you grow the group I'll look at things like adding topics making
announcements setting the rules for a group making questions available to
ensure you get the right quality of members of the group how you invite
people to the group lots of different features we'll look at. So let's get
started Here we have a group that's been created as a public group and here's the
first thing to look at how are you interacting with the group. So if you
were a page and I'll set up a page PR Wilson media and that's actually linked
directly to this group So if I was to go to that page you'll see under
section groups that this is linked to this page so that means then that you can
invite people who've liked this page so over time you might get to know the page
first and then they might be interested in the group. So if I click invite here
you can literally select each person I can see and click invite and you could do
that for groups of up to 50 at a time. If you've got multiple pages that you run
you might even link more than one page to the group.
Now you created the group from PR Wilson media but you can switch the view from
page to you personally. Now in this case I've got the same icon to represent page
and personal however it means that when I type in the discussion area
or even like a post I'm liking as me personally. So be aware
of the different modes interacting yourself or changing that to interacting
as the page. Next up we'll consider what content you can put into a group and
this is where groups have the unique advantage they have the ability to
upload either a document PDF PowerPoint whatever type of file but files are
already added to this group as you can see here and they can be grouped
together documents PDFs etc So simple way to add something you could do it
directly here in this section and upload a file just choose a file and upload it
or when are you going to do a post you can say here's the guide and then
click on more add file and again search for that file. Simply select the file and
then post. Now bear in mind you can only post one file at a time with this method
there's no way to currently upload multiple files however it gives the
whole group something that it can access anytime you can see it in the newsfeed
as well so a really handy feature. Next we'll look at announcements so if
you remember the process of pinning your post to the top of your page this is a
similar kind of way they announce with the key updates for the group from the
administrators from the moderators.
And you can see here the latest announcement that's been shared here at
the top and if you click on you can see it's been pinned to the top. So obviously
you can replace what's pinned to the top any time you can have as many announcements
as you like but I would suggest maybe two or three, Here on the right you can
see popular topics on the post. Now it's been a sticky issue in Facebook groups
some groups didn't get topics immediately but it does make it a lot
easier to navigate. For example if you just want to look at any Facebook
content that's been created you click on Facebook and instantly you've got all
the videos and content that've been made about Facebook. If you want to check the
or assign a topic for a particular post you could say this is a welcome message and then
underneath here you've got add post topic so if I select in the area there
I'll say welcome, remove that Facebook one and I'll say welcome. Now note at
this stage there's no way to add a second topic so that is kind of
restrictive in terms of how it works but at least it's a guideline for everyone
to use. So I can again manage these topics that we have so you can pick and
choose which ones are featured you can say newest first you could search by
popularity search by alphabetical. Okay so if we were to
look at the next one down units. Units are a way to share resources
maybe training materials that people can access anytime. So just simply click on
the left-hand side and go straight to units they can maybe get to a ready-made
set of videos the complete toolkit training collections down. How do you
create units you can create them here within this page. If you go to the group
settings the way its enabled in the first place is to add a section social
learning units and there are other sections you can add as well like jobs
for example. While we're in this section group settings are important because you
get the chance to put in the details of the group what its purpose is and most
importantly you can give it a name a permanent name and select the privacy.
Now this is the key bit. If you want to change it from a public to a
private group that is possible however it's a one-way street.. Once you've
changed to a private group you can't in the future then go back to making it
public so be very cautious around this. My advice is to start with a public
group grow see how it goes and then if you need to make it private you've got
enough members then make it private. It means that the group is easily findable it's
visible and any searches etc that can be found. In terms of who's in the
group you can have membership being approved by
anyone who's a member of the group or just the admins and moderators you could
even pre-approve in some circumstances and who's allowed to post is also key.
There you go open it up to everyone to post or you just gonna say admins only. I
would suggest everyone should be allowed to post but that's still the setting to
approve the posts by the administrator. So the key areas are discussion the
latest topics can be there people will as members of the group will get
recommendations from their notifications to say if there's new posts or not and
it will evolve over time. So one final thing to look at is a list of members
and the fact that pages as well as individual people can join groups. That's
a great feature you can have it set again in your group settings. Basically
just need to go to more edit group settings and as you scroll down you'll
see the option. Now you have to be connected as your page rather than
personal. Here's a membership request from pages so either allow them or you
say don't allow them to join. So if you say don't allow them to join at this
stage pages that have already joined will be able to remain so gives people
the flexibility to be part of a group not as themselves personally but just
involved to promote their business that's a good thing. The final thing I
wanted to look at here is the moderate group option around asking questions. So
here on the left hand side you've got membership questions and I ask three
questions related to the group. One is how you use social media two is how you
heard about us and that's always great insight into where that traffic
comes from and finally how many hours per week. They should be fairly
straightforward to answer. Notice here you can actually say include your group
rules and ask them to select that they agree to them and here under create rules
you can see at the moment I've got four rules set up and people have to abide by
these you can also customize them by using that tab. So there you have a quick
walkthrough of some of the features involved in groups in 2020. Now take a
look at the switch to new Facebook mode and you can see that there are going to
be some presentation differences in the way it's handled within Facebook 2020
interface. You got the admin tools are lined up here
the same topics is you can achieve with the other groups like for example group
rules and you create from there but just looks a little bit different a little
bit cleaner I'll probably go through this 2020 interface in more detail in a
future video. So that's it from me for now I'm Paul
from PR Wilson media your social media personal trainer cheers It'll help you find ways to make the most out of your group here we go