Hi everyone, can anyone here please let me know whether a public announcement made in a page wall to give away a free eBook to anyone who’s picked as Fan of the Week, is in violation of Facebook policy? Thanks guys.

Louis

@louisteoh I did a quick search and Social Media Marketing University has an article on the topic: http://socialmediamarketinguniversity.com/conduct-fan-week-promo-facebook/#
As @ladik_ , it looks like you do need an app to manage the promotion you are describing aka giving away something and not just recognition.
Excerpt from the article:“You may not run these promos using a Facebook-made app. So that eliminates all of the average Facebook features. Of course many companies do this weekly fan appreciation on such a small scale, that Facebook allows it.
In this instance, the community knows that there is an ongoing ‘fan of the week’ contest, and at the end of every week a Facebook update naming the fan is published. Short, simple and far more effective than you might think. Anything more than this, and you are going to have to do it through a third party application.”

@louisteoh I’ll have something for you to try out in a few days that does what you are talking about + a bunch more. Let me know if you want to be one of our beta testers…totally free of course.

Cheers,

Scott