New Facebook Plugin Promotes Recommendations for Company Pages
Now when you like someone on Facebook, a box pops up asking you if you would like to recommend this page to your friends. We recently put together a custom welcome tab for the Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital, see the screenshot below to see how the recommend option appears when you go to like the page.
All you have to do is enter in a recommendation like so…
And, make sure that you have the post set to public, so that anyone that is subscribed to your news feed can see it, as well as anyone who visits the page that you are liking.
After that if you go to the page wall, you will see that there is a recommendations section in the right column where your recommendation will show up.
This reminds me a bit of giving a recommendation on LinkedIn. It’s a way to show your support for a business that you think is doing great or that you have had a superb experience with. Also, by having it in the right hand column it allows for anyone to see it no matter when they go to the page, unlike a general comment, which after time gets pushed down the feed.
Also, it’s a great way to spread the word to your friends that they should like the page, because it will show up on your wall and your friends news feed that you just recommended a page.
For more info on the Recommendations Plugin visit Recommendations On Facebook.