Facebook group

[Philip Bloom]

Jill brought up a point, and I relayed this at the general meeting
last week: the Google Group is being used to effectively spam group
members with non-free skool stuff. Even though some of these are
things that I might be interested in or might be kindred to free skool
in spirit, if the group is used as a place to advertise this and that,
group members may just start tuning out.

So I think we need to decide what the Facebook group is actually for,
if we need guidelines, and do we need a moderator. Thoughts?

[Cole Bellamy]

Right now, I think we need to write some guidelines in the group description- something about only using the group for Free Skool related activities. If the problem persists, then we may have to start scrubbing anything that doesn't jive with our mission. The group itself is good for making announcements and sending out invitations (as opposed to a regular page, where announcements may or may not appear on someone's news feed according to some murky Facebook algorithm or something) so we probably need to keep it up.

> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 19:56:45 -0700
> Subject: [TampaFreeSkool] Facebook group
> From: philip....@gmail.com
> To: tampafr...@googlegroups.com

[Cindy Lyons]

I'm confused, Philip, do you mean the google group or the facebook group?

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[Mary McKenzie]

Yeah I hadn't really paid attention to the amount of extra non-freeskool stuff being posted in the group til jill pointed it out. 

I like Cole's idea of writing and posting some guidelines about what should be posted in the group.  Of course, we could probably just fiddle with it and see if there is simply a setting that we can change -- there might be a way to force everything that is posted to go through an admin approval or something. 

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 2:15 AM, Cole Bellamy <co...@msn.com> wrote:

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[Cindy Lyons]

I think we can do what Mary suggested.
And I noticed it to, but was leaving up anything that was free and had to do with learning. I've been taking down promos for events that aren't free and random posts that people make, but I can definitely be more strict.
Also, I don't think we need public guidelines. I think we should make internal ones, but as far as the group goes, I think it may be best for me to just post a "reminder" that people should only post things about free learning or whatever we decide to limit it to.

[Charlene Scott]

I didn't notice that there was a lot of spam, but guidelines are a good idea regardless.

Charlei

[Philip Bloom]

...and one person's notion of spam might strike another person as totally legit.  The skill share at Sacred Grounds seemed simpatico with us, but still a little advertisey.

[Mary McKenzie]

Totally, Philip.  So maybe some guidelines are in order to make it really clear what we want/ don't want on the group.  My personal opinion is that if it is not directly related to Tampa Free Skool, it shouldn't be posted.  That way there is not really a grey area and no one feels like someone else is getting preferential treatment when an admin decides what should/should not be posted.