Some Useful Apps for Arts Orgs

Here's a list of some Facebook apps that might be helpful for arts organizations. (Special thanks to my intern Ching Jen Lum for compiling this list!)

Music Player: Created by Facebook, this application lets fans listen to your most recent tracks directly from your Page. Add as many tracks as you want, and update Music Player as you create new music. (San Francisco Symphony)

Discography: Created by Facebook, the application lists your albums as well as the tracks each one. Fans track the history of your records. (New York Philharmonic)

Reviews: Created by Facebook. Reviews written by users for everything from shows, plays, exhibitions, page, etc.

Favorite Pages (automatically included when you set up a Page): Created by Facebook. Link to favorite FB pages, ideal for cross-promotions.

YouTube Box: Used to publish videos to FB pages and personal profiles (The Frick Collection, BAM)

YouTube Video Box: Similar to YouTube Box -- check them both out and see which you prefer. (New York Botanical Garden)

My Flickr: Integrate your Flickr account into your Facebook Page

ArtShare Gallery: Created by Brooklyn Museum of Art, the application shares works of art from museums around the world (Met Museum, MoMA)

Social RSS: Promotes blogs, podcasts, delicious bookmarks, photos, calendar listings (The Frick Collection, American Museum of Natural History, BAM)

My del.icio.us: Lists all pages bookmarked in delicious (Guggenheim Museum, MoMA)

Subway Status: A box to let users know which subway to get to your organization (Guggenheim Museum, Queens Museum of Art).

Promotions: Created by Wildfire, Inc., this application runs branded interactive promotions on Facebook Fan Pages. Promotion formats include: sweepstakes, contests, coupon giveaways, instant wins, gifting, quizzes, etc. (Not free!)

Polls: Created by Context Optional, Inc., this application takes the pulse of fans with custom polls for Facebook Pages! Polls are easy to create and analyze, with graphs showing user responses across demographics.

Facebook webinar series: Watch the video promos

I apologize for the silence around here lately! I've been hard at work on creating the presentations for the four-part Facebook course we've created for this summer.

We created a bunch of silly promo videos for the webinar series, and they came out really well (if I do say so myself) -- I highly recommend you check them out on the main page of the Patron Technology Web site to get all the info about the series.

Here's the short, non-video version of what's going on:

Facebook for Arts Organizations, a four-webinar series

Session 1: Fans Are Better Than Friends: Your Organization's Presence on Facebook (Encore Presentation)
Thursday, June 4th, 2:00-2:45pm EDT

Session 2: Are You Content With Your Content?
Tuesday, June 16th, 2:00-2:45pm EDT

Session 3: Apply Yourself!
Tuesday, June 30th, 2:00-2:45pm EDT

Session 4: Fan-ning the Flames
Tuesday, July 14th, 2:00-2:45pm EDT

All sessions are free for Patron Technology clients. (clients register here)

For non-clients, they're $45 each or $99 for the whole series. (non-clients register here)

Blog readers, you've got insider access! If you have any questions that fit into any of those sessions, let me know and I'll try to cover them in the webinar. (And as always, if you have any questions that DON'T fit into those sessions, ask anyway! I'll answer here.)

Of course. there will always be plenty of Facebook info that doesn't fit into a 45-minute webinar, so there will be many blog posts forthcoming this summer.

Hope to "see" you on Thursday!

I'm Going Live!

Just a heads up, in case you've missed our other announcements: I'm hosting a live webinar on Thursday, all about Facebook for arts organizations. Some of the information I'm presenting has already been posted here, but I do have some new stuff plus a live demonstration of at least a few "how-to's."

The webinar is on Thursday, April 2, at 1:00PM Eastern time.

If you're interested, just click here to register. Thanks!