Thanks for becoming a fan! To be honest, now that we’ve got most things set up, I usually only put about 1-2 hours a week into our various sites. This usually goes up if we’ve got an event on - adding it on Facebook, putting the photos up on Flickr and maybe writing a blog about it. I use Facebook at home too so I do tend to check it out of work too - rather sadly!!

I’ll go on and have a look at hootsuite - sounds good. We made one of our seasonal staff this year able to edit our Facebook page and then removed rights when she left. It is difficult though to give over editing of a site like that, especially when you’re the one that puts up most of the posts!

I can’t quite remember about Facebook but I think we might have said we were an organisation and then people could become fans of us. If anyone knows differently, please correct me!!

Thanks for your comments.

You asked about tools: I’ve become a convert to Hootsuite.com as a tool for writing/scheduling and posting updates to Twitter and (just added this week) to Facebook. For an organisation it seems an ideal tool, as it lets you grant and remove staff access for writing posts to Twitter/FB without giving them direct access to all the account settings, or the ability to delete the account if they were so minded! For big organisations, keeping control of what staff do with social media sites is clearly very important.

Personally, I think Twitter seems easier to set up and manage than Facebook (call me biased!), and can be much more responsive to users. I like the hashtag #museumfactmonday for promoting info about a museum and the fact that it can be updated by RSS whenever your blog or website is updated.

Out or interest, why did you choose to create your FB page as a “Fan” page rather than as an “organisation”. Were there extra advantages that you saw to this.

Love your blog - keep up the great work.