Facebook has been steadily improving things for groups on the social network. The company added administration tools like membership insights for community pages. It also created Groups for Pages to let businesses, artists and brands create their own communities. It also shuttered a standalone Groups app in the hopes of bringing the functionality into the already existing Facebook app. Now the company is adding new features for groups
New Tools for Admins and Members
Welcome Posts:
For admins, welcoming new members and making them feel supported is critical to building community. To help them introduce new members to the group, admins can now write a welcome post that will automatically tag new joiners.
Badges:
We also heard that members want ways to easily identify group leaders and other members. That’s why we’ve also introduced badges for group admins, moderators and new members.
Member profiles:
Many people also tell us they often get to know other group members by reading their group posts and visiting their profiles. To help make this easier, we’re introducing a new feature called member profiles. Now, when group members click on another person’s name they will be directed to a group-specific profile, based on publicly-available information like things they may share in common and a feed of that person’s activity in the group.
New controls:
Finally, many admins spend hours each week making sure their Facebook groups stay supportive and safe, so we’ve built new features to help group admins grow and manage their communities.
The Group Insights tool to include helpful personalized tips, like scheduling posts at times when members are most engaged. Facebook also heard that conversations in even the most supportive groups can sometimes get heated, so facebook created more tools for admins to manage members that might have forgotten group rules of conduct. Admins can now temporarily turn off a member’s ability to comment and post, and remove members who violate their community’s rules from multiple groups they manage in a single click.
Building Relationships with Group Admins
loved getting to know group leaders at the Facebook Communities Summit, and got to learn a lot more about the groups they manage: for example, learned that most common categories of meaningful groups on Facebook in the US include local city and neighborhood groups, pregnancy and parenting groups, animal and pet groups, and occupation-focused groups. To give the admins of these groups more opportunities to connect with other community leaders, facebook started an invite-only group on Facebook where they can connect with one another and share feedback about their experiences, so fb can provide the support they need to serve their communities. facebook announcing more about these new programs soon.
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