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Reservations about feeding a community website to twitter and facebook
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I am a contributer to a local community website - used for primary school activities, women's group, community hall activities etc etc - and the admins have themselves decided to feed the contributions posted (including photos, events etc) to Facebook and Twitter. I am not entirely happy with this, even though I use both of these social media myself. I am concerned about loss of editorial control - I will not be able to delete blog posts I made to the site, so I am reluctant to contribute further. Is Facebook and Twitter the way to go, or am I right to have reservations???
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No, at the minute the website is done by contributers putting up blog posts, and until now these just remained on the website. There was no problem editing, removing posts as required. The new automatic streaming to FB and Twitter does not allow the original poster to change/delete a post. I am looking for opinions on this feeding to social media, as I am not sure it's ideal considering much of the content comes from the local primary school and whether it is appropriate/necessary for social media to be linked to the website. Maybe people on this forum have similar community websites, and I would value their opinion on the vale (or otherwise) of feeding to social media.
You really shouldn't have to do that at all
In fact, I know you shouldn't have to
I don't know where you are posting your blogg to have it made public in this group but look at the setting son that
You own your posts, being an or not admin makes no difference on FB as to whether or not you can remove something you wrote - I've just tested it
In fact, I know you shouldn't have to
I don't know where you are posting your blogg to have it made public in this group but look at the setting son that
You own your posts, being an or not admin makes no difference on FB as to whether or not you can remove something you wrote - I've just tested it
Sorry, I missed the question about blog posts. The community website has a section called "News and Events", and contributers are able to add to this on the site by creating a blog post. They can log in using their email and password, and create a post, then select which area of the site it belongs to e.g youth club news, news and events, women's institute section etc. We were not party to the decision about FB and Twitter, but are being told that we since feeds to social media is introduced, we can no longer edit or delete our own contributions, but need to contact Admin to do so.
Thank you for that. Yea, I'm only blogging on the website, and it's going to FB and Twitter. Admin sent all contributers an email to say "If you post something to the website it will then appear on our facebook and twitter pages. You will not be able to delete it. So if you need to delete a page or post from the facebook or twitter page please let me know and I can remove it". Firstly I have responded to him requesting clarification for all posters, and secondly I resent not being able to edit/change/delete posts myself. I just don't see the need to stream to FB and Twitter, even though I use these selectively myself. Thanks to everyone for opinions on this.
OJ, that's not right. If someone creates a FB group they can list admin members and they are the only ones who have control over all posts made on there. Not everybody can go on and edit any post. Unless the blog posts have come from the OP's own facebook account then she won't have any control over them.
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