Facebook Business Pages: The End Of The Corporate Blog?

As services like Facebook (and soon, umpty-ump others) provide a simple, rich and easily accessible environment for corporate networking, will corporate blogs tail off?

In my particular case, I have a not very active blog, /Messengers, where in principle I talk about my work, and publicize the sorts of things I might do for clients. In fact, /Message is where I expend my (considerable) writing energies, but I would like to have a more public interaction with the community of people interested in my business side.

So I think I will try an experiment. I will retire /Messengers -- maybe permanently -- and set up shop on Facebook. The existing content at /Messengers will be migrated to /Message, and some bits of it might be repurposed for the new page at Facebook for Stowe Boyd And The /Messengers. Go take a look.

Unlike Fred Wilson, I am not buying ads, but I am interested to see if my biz presence fans out through fans. Fan me!

I also think that many of the Facebook groups that were formed in the past should be shuttered, and converted to Facebook business pages, since many are thinly disguised business presences.

Comments

[veri9tas]

We who really like and appreciate /messenger and don't wish to have a facebook account (would you believe it) will be really disadvantaged. Couldn't you mirror this blog on the face? and then add whatever extra there?

[Mark Scrimshire]

Stowe, the only issue with moving to Facebook is that not everyone can see the content - at least not while at work. There are an increasing number of companies that block MySpace and Facebook from their networks.

I'll just have to read when I go home....

[alan p]

Stowe, before you put anything on Facebook make sure you grok its T&C..I printed them here:

http://broadstuff.com/archives/324-Facebook-Copyright-have-you-read-the-small-print.html