Thursday Tutorial: Facebook Tutorial Update: How to Add Admins

When we originally wrote the tutorial in March, we wrote it for the way pages had been designed back then.  Many pages, however, have been switched over to the new page design, which also means a new administrative backend which means the tutorial needs to be updated.  Instead of updating that tutorial, we're going to insert a blurb at the top directing to this page and leave the old tutorial there for those pages that haven't been converted yet.

For everyone who has been switched over to the new page layout, go to the page you want to add admins to.  Your layout should look like this:

Click on the "Settings" Tab.  That should open a page that looks like this:

From the menu on the left, select Page Roles.  That will open the following page:

From here, you type in the name or email of the person you want to add, then from the drop down menu beneath their name, select their role. Once done, click save.  You will be asked to type in your password to confirm changes.  You can also use this same menu to remove admins or change their roles.

You can rinse and repeat to add a number of admin - I am unsure if there is a cap on the number of admins a page can have or not as I have never reached a cap.

Hope this helps!

Thursday Tutorials are a series of tutorials designed to help people who may not be as Facebook savvy as other people.  Some tutorials will be targeted towards newbies to the social media world, others will include tutorials for more advanced users.  Thursday Tutorials are written for the layman and are designed with everyone in mind.  You can find all the Thursday Tutorials by clicking on the Thursday Tutorials tag below.

Thursday Tutorials - How to Add Staff to Facebook Pages

!!!IMPORTANT NOTE!!! There has been an update to this tutorial.  If you are not on the updated Facebook page layout, you can continue reading this blog post for instructions on how to add admins.  Otherwise, the new article with updates can be found here:  http://socialmediamarketinghints.blogspot.com/2014/06/thursday-tutorial-facebook-tutorial.html

One of the regular pieces of advice I will give is to add other staff to your Facebook Pages to assist with posting and communicating with your fanbase.  Some folks will sign their posts with who replied.  Others will just make it look like a singular, cohesive team and not sign names.  What you decide to do is up to you.

The first important thing to keep in mind when adding staff members to your page is that they have to have liked the page and be your friend in order for you to add them to a managerial page role.

The second important thing to remember is that there are several roles you can put a person in.  When adding admins to a page, it automatically defaults to adding them as Content Creator - which is likely where you want them to be.  The reason for this is simple.  Adding anyone as Manager means they have as much control as you do of the page.  This means, if they get upset or vindictive for whatever reason, they can remove you as page admin - it doesn't matter if you created it or not.  It also means they can add/remove other staff.  So I strongly encourage you to only add people you absolutely trust as the highest level of Manager to your page.   There are five assignments you can give to admins for your page:  Manager, Content Creator, Moderator, Advertiser, and Insights Analysts.  Over the next few weeks we'll define each of these positions better, but they are reasonably easy to determine by FB's descriptions.

To add managers, visit your page.  You should see the following screen:

Click on "Edit Page."  This will create a drop down menu with a number of options, as seen below.  From those options, choose "Manage Admin roles."

That will take you to a page like this:

I went ahead and screen shot the drop down menu options at the same time.

So to add an admin, type in their name.  It should start to auto-populate with a drop down menu, then you can select the person you want.  In the drop down menu, select the role you want them to play.  Once done, click save.  You will be asked to type in your password to confirm changes.  You can also use this same menu to remove admins or change their roles.

You can rinse and repeat to add a number of admin - I am unsure if there is a cap on the number of admins a page can have or not as I have never reached a cap.

Hope this helps!

Thursday Tutorials are a series of tutorials designed to help people who may not be as Facebook savvy as other people.  Some tutorials will be targeted towards newbies to the social media world, others will include tutorials for more advanced users.  Thursday Tutorials are written for the layman and are designed with everyone in mind.  You can find all the Thursday Tutorials by clicking on the Thursday Tutorials tag below.

Thursday Tutorials: Creating Your Page

The previous tutorials - prior to missing an article for last week - covered how to find the "Create a Page" buttons as well as how to chose the category your page falls into.  Today, using this blog as an example, I will walk through how to create a page for a website/brand/product.  The process is pretty much the same for the other categories - but if specific tutorials for each category are wanted, I will need to be able to create a page for a specific category.

That being said, we'll start with the very first step, finding and clicking on the click page button - as seen below.

Once you click that +Create a Page button, this page below will pop up where you can chose the category you want your page to be in.  If you are confused on this, please check the article found here for additional information as to what types of pages go where.

Since I'm creating a page for my blog (aka Website), I selected the Brand or Product category from above.  Then in the drop down menu for selections there, I chose Website, as seen below.

After that is selected, I typed in (what was then) the name of the blog (as seen below).

Once I hit the "Get Started" button, that's when I discovered I had to change the name of my page.  Long story short, there is some programing within page creation which will prevent you from creating pages with certain names.  Using the term "Facebook" in a page name is forbidden - which should have been an "oh duh" moment for me, but I hadn't really considered it before I started the blog.

If you hit the "Get Started" button and a red error message pops up similar to the one below, click on the "Learn More" to figure out what you might have done wrong, then change the name of your page - as I did.

Thankfully, Social Media Marketing: Tips and Hints was permissible and available, which is why the blog's address and name changed to that.  Finding the name was allowed, hitting "Get Started" Takes you to this next page.

This was my first draft of what I put in the description area.  You are limited to a certain number of characters, so be sure to be concise about what your page is for.  I redid this and ended up with a shorter blurb and a way to add in my blog address.  Note: If you put in a web address, it will automatically link in the page's description - a great way to hopefully get people to click to your site if they stumble across your page.

Now, I failed to get screenshots of the next two steps, but they are relatively easy to walk through.

Your profile picture, or avatar, is the image that will be seen in the feed of folks who liked you.  Facebook requires the size to be at least 180x180 in size, but you can use almost any size, just as long as it resizes right and looks good in the square.  Facebook has options for you to select what you want people to see if the image doesn't resize right.  If all else fails, I strongly encourage you to spend time on selecting your image and making sure it looks right.  

Most importantly, don't worry if it doesn't look right or you decide that's not the image you want to use.  You can always change it after the page is initially created.

Once you have the image uploaded and selected, you move on to the final phase, adding your new page to your Favorites section.  That will make your page show up as seen below.

Once that is done, you hit the final button and it will take you to a pretty sparse page, but it's been created and your name has been saved.

Our next article will continue in the same theme of this page, but with customizing your page that you just created.

Thursday Tutorials are a series of tutorials designed to help people who may not be as Facebook savvy as other people.  Some tutorials will be targeted towards newbies to the social media world, others will include tutorials for more advanced users.  Thursday Tutorials are written for the layman and are designed with everyone in mind.  You can find all the Thursday Tutorials by clicking on the Thursday Tutorials tag below.