By looking at these features you can see how coaches or small businesses can stay n track by helping the communication lines stay open, and keeping each group in touch. Creating a closed group is definitely an added bonus for your business.

This becomes a great possibility, which enables you to give each group a private URL which is only used for this group. Members just need to click on “ask to join group button” (which is located on the top right). For this to work you don’t need to be personal friends on Facebook. Once everyone has joined the Facebook closed group, changing the group setting is easy.

Here are the steps to create a secret group: (if you already have a Facebook account)

  • Go to http://facebook.com/groups
  • Click on the (green) create group button
  • Name the group & choose icon using the dropdown arrow
  • New members are added/Facebook friends/type name in/will pop up/ select to add them
  • Any members that are not friends, but need to be included, make sure the closed group is created first/change it to secret when you see that all the members has joined.
  • Be sure and select the private setting and click on the create button.

Managers with a staff that use Facebook as a means to work out any shifts, emergencies, or shift substitutions have realized how efficient and effective this is for them and their employees to use. By using these Facebook secret group pages, everyone can see what is going for the day, week, or even month. Instead of their usual type of communications with emails or phones, Facebook secret groups become quite effective and orderly for everyone involved.

Any small business that has a remote virtual team loves the fact that they can group chat while using the Facebook secret group method. Use of this type of method, instead of, say Google chat or an IM system, is easy and only takes a few minutes to accomplish plus it’s completely private.

This secret group method also becomes very effective when you need to take pictures with your smart phone and send them directly to any one of your group members. By completely bypassing the upload process, and the tagging used for Facebook photos, that normally is used, this enables you to create group docs in handling any type of crises and references, which shows immediately, for any member news feed items, but is completely private outside of the group.

You can see tons of business using the features of Facebook secret groups effectively. There are several businesses which are now realizing how secret Facebook groups have become a viable part of their businesses and see how they function a lot more effectively than by other means of communication. Join yourself and see how Facebook secret groups can help your business prosper.

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Guest Author Nicole Long has a knack for finding the inside track on increasing group productivity through the use of powerful tools like Facebook’s Secret Group ability.