Growing organically a Facebook page for Hummingbird604.com

My dislike for Facebook and its continuous campaign to continue erosion of privacy is well known in the social media circles in Canada and worldwide. I’ve written about Facebook extensively here on my site. Regardless of my reluctance to put much effort into this particular social networking platform, it’s widespread use is well known and I finally caved and created a Facebook page for Hummingbird604.com, my blog.

While I have a Facebook page for my academic activities, I had always been on the fence on whether I wanted to have a Facebook page for my blog. I finally caved, but decided to do two things differently. First, I published it on a Saturday night after 11pm, when not many people would be online. Second, I didn’t blast it to my friends “Raul liked this page and thought you should like it too”.

Guacira Naves and Tod Maffin (very good friends of mine both) recently wrote blog posts about growing organically a Facebook page. In the case of Hummingbird604.com’s Facebook page, I am using a non-invasive approach, without blasting it to my networks. Primarily it’s another avenue of engagement. And ultimately, I want to draw my Facebook traffic to MY BLOG – I don’t want Facebook to get more unique visitors from me.

On the Facebook side of things, I also will (eventually, when it comes to my mind and I have enough concentration to do it) set up the “Facebook like” plugin too. Right now, it’s not my major priority. My book is!