Ok so in the process of setting up a facebook page for my feed, I found out that one of my die hard listeners had already set one up and is very active in following events and posting live updates about them. I teamed up with him, making his page my "official" page, and I was wondering if there was any way that I could allow him to post alerts to my feed without actually giving him access to my account. There are times when I don't tune in until something is already underway, or can't stop what I'm doing to post, but he's right on top of it. I'd like to allow him to post alerts but I don't want to hand over my keys. Is that something that is possible or that could be implemented?
I'm not suggesting in any way shape or fashion that there be "blanket permission" to post alerts. That would be stupid beyond belief. What I'm saying is that it would be nice if there was a way that I could, from my dashboard, assign another member or two who are allowed to post and clear alerts to my feed, but not access the dashboard or make any other changes. So I'm envisioning once I assign permission to a user, they'd have the Manage My Feed gear button show up for them but they would only have access to the Alerts and Stats tabs.
I just had a perfect example of why this would be good today.. As I said I just teamed up with one of my die-hard listeners who has made a FB page for the scanner. There was a major situation occurring this morning (4 hour multi-agency chase/standoff) that I didn't know about because I was still sleeping. He was posting updates to the page from the very beginning. I didn't know about it until 2 hours later, and even then I hesitated to post the alert for a little bit until I knew it was going to be ongoing. We could've gathered a lot more listeners, and by proxy more likes and shares (we gained over 500 likes and reached just a shade under 25,000 people just off this one event post) - if he had been able to post a BCFY alert for me 2 hours sooner.
We would not allow anyone other that the feed owner to post alerts, admin, make or request changes to feeds.
Doing so will create kayos for us to admin feeds.
We have policies re what type alert message can & cannot be posted.
We already have issues from time to time with feed owners posting improper alerts like "feed status", our "our ham net is active now", and other that not allowed.
When there is an issue like this, any email we send will go to the feed owner, no the poster.
So we will be deleting & they will be re posting over & over.
This will result in us terminating the feed as the feed owner would be responsible.
I have that happen with a feed owner vs a poster.
If something needs to changed to a feed, the feed owner needs to submit a help request from the HELP tab their feed page so we know the request IS from the feed owner vs sending an email that can be spoofed by anyone.
Best is to give your die-hard listeners your phone number so they can call you & you post the alert etc.