Hello,

Some tough love, for the cause, below.

I will continue to hammer at this until our Occupy Atlanta better learns how to use the Facebook Fan Page. I am CONVINCED that the way major Occupy Atlanta Actions are being ineffectively announced on Facebook is having a a major impact on the attendance numbers at the actions. I may even go as far as suggesting that a separate SOCIAL MEDIA Committee be formed since MEDIA may already be too busy dealing with traditional media. I have been observing the number of fans and based on our actions and media coverage, plus if were properly using FB better, our fan numbers should be much higher than 14,000+. Is anyone even looking at the statistics tool in Facebook?

1. Go to the Occupy Atlanta Facebook page and go to the events page. Click on See Older Events and tell me if you see any way to Share the events (as if you were a regular fan of the page). The answer is no. This somehow needs to be fixed in the settings. Since I do not have access to it, I cant tell you exactly what to do. If a fan reads about the event but does not see a Share function, how will that person spread the word? Copy pasting it on their wall is not the right way as the link does not look attractive.

2. There is a workaround to invite all our fans and have them receive an event invite from a fan page. The process is too long to explain.

3. Once this is fixed, at the GA, the MEDIA/SOCIAL MEDIA committee should remind attendees to share the events on Facebook to their network of friends.

I don’t mean to be rude or critical but it needs fixing.

Thanks