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.

Tuesday Tips: Add Adminstrators/Managers to Your Fan Pages

At the beginning of March we provided a tutorial on how to add staff to Facebook fan pages.  Later this week, we'll add a tutorial for adding administrators to Google+ Pages and then to LinkedIn as well.  Today's tip, however, pertains to the previous and upcoming tutorials.

Add other administrators/managers/staff to your page(s).  This will allow them to post, respond and advertise for your page.

This is important for a small business, community or fanpage.  Often you and your staff are busy with other projects (I know I am) and having multiple people having access can allow them to take some of the load off your shoulders when it comes to maintaining a social media presence and engaging your fans.

And now, you don't have to worry about knowing who posted what - at least on Facebook.  Facebook now shows admins who of the admins/managers posted what to the page and who responded to who on the page - which can help deter negative engagement from staff too.  Remember, you want to try to stay as positive as possible with your fans on Facebook - even if they piss you off.

Facebook has several roles for page staff to assume, not just admin, so be sure to consider that when you add staff to a page.

As always, remember that admin's have a lot of power - be sure those you make admin are those you can trust.

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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.