Agency Facebook Pages

[Tigger]

Does anyone here have experience developing your EMS agency's facebook page? Looking for any feedback you've got to include:

How were you able to grow your follower base? Do you feel that your residents like getting their information about your service this way? Do you run the page yourself or is there a group?

 

[planetmike]

I was tasked with creating and running our Facebook page earlier this year. (Also a Twitter account). I’m still learning, but I was given a lot of latitude in using social media to represent our agency. http://www.facebook.com/cavespringrs and https://twitter.com/CaveSpringRS

Right now, I do a lot of reposting of relevant and interesting info from other places. I have a lot of ideas I’m working on for 2015. For Twitter, I live-tweeted the scores of the football games we were at as a standby. That got us some exposure to local TV and print media.

For Facebook, look to see if Facebook has “helpfully” created a page for your agency already. If so, you can merge that page with your page. That will help you get some followers right away, as well as a bunch of check-ins. Ask all of your agency’s members to like your page, and to follow your Twitter account.