[Bradford] Bradlug now has a Facebook page

[Nick]

Hi,

I did check the page in a private Firefox window, for me it has big
"log in or create new account" buttons at the bottom, but I  can scroll
to see the content. I wonder if we are subjects of A/B testing ?
I fully understand there are people who don't use Facebook. I get zero
value of it myself, only use for the benifit of family members that
insist on using it.  But as Facebook is its own bubble of information
(and search), I thought it would be useful to make BradLUG discoverable
on Facebook :)

I have just taken a look at meetup.com, I found the "Pro" page, but
zero info about prices and what features the free and pro versions
have. It does have 5 big buttons prompting to start a free trial, which
just sucks IMHO.

Cheers, Nick
On Wed, 2022-06-01 at 17:53 +0000, bradlug at hackroyd.org.uk wrote:
>         I am not on Facebook and it wanted me to log in, that was
> after the cookies stuff. I have a Firefox container that launches
> automatically when there is a Facebook link. Anyway, the page isn't
> for me but maybe those on Facebook who might be interested.  Any
> publicity is good. However, many will be like me and avoid Facebook
> as much as possible. 
> 
> A meetup.com group would be effective I think but, unfortunately, it
> is difficult to work out if/what they charge. I read that they don't
> charge unless you charge your members but I ran some groups without
> making charges and meetup charged me. When I spoke to the guy who
> runs 'Málaga Makers' - the largest tech meetup group south of Madrid,
> he told me he didn't get charged. So I can't work it out.
> Brian
> 
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>              On Wednesday, 1 June 2022, 16:09:26 CEST, Nick via
> Bradford <bradford at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
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>                 Hi,
> 
> I have recently created a page on Facebook at (no login required) 
> https://www.facebook.com/Bradlug.Bradford.GNU.Linux.Users.Group,
> thought it would be helpful to make BradLUG and our website more
> discoveredable from Facebook.
> I don't plan on adding content unless there are any specific
> requests.
> If anyone has any suggestions for tweaks, changes and improvements
> let
> me know.
> 
> I would be useful to have someone else as an admin of this page to
> avoid myself being a single point of failure, any voulenteers ?
> 
> Cheers, Nick
> 
> 
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