Setting Up the Official Facebook Page

Throughout building the promotion of the degree show, I started feeling like we could be doing more. I felt we were covering promotion very well individually on our personal social media accounts really well, but we didn't have a central hub on social media.

Because of this, and the fact that I am looking into working in social media and community management in my career, I raised the idea of myself creating and managing a central Facebook page for the class.

Once I got the idea okay-ed by the class, I set up a page. With this, I had to create place-holder profile picture and cover photo. For the cover photo I just used a panoramic photo I took during the 24hr comic challenge in February. Then, for the profile picture, I tried to throw together a nice profile photo from a class selfie from our first year.

As this is only meant to be a placeholder, I'm pretty happy with it. I messed with the kerning of the text to make it a little more fitting, and framed it with a black shadow and white outline. I went for the final option and the class seemed pretty happy with it!

From here, I did a bit of maths and worked out how often posts would need to be uploaded to spread out up to the launch of the exhibition. This took a bit of time to sort out, as I initially planned the posting schedule alphabetically, as I already had a list that way from the zine organisation. But I'd talked to some people who said they were struggling, so moved people around so that they were more comfortable and had more time to gather data.

Below is how the table is looking as of today (12/4/19)...

As well as this, I also worked with the class to decide on how the posts would look. We discussed what our thoughts on this were in the group chat...

Below is an example of how the posts ended up looking...