The next adventure: How to re-post from MY timeline onto the Mission page in the Facebook Page Adventure

I'm panicking.

Being on the mission field for so long is a serious disadvantage at times. When we left the States, I still saved everything on 3½ floppy disks; “Internet” was understood as two computers in the same room being able to communicate; cell phones were seen mainly on television. We didn't even have a single family e-mail account until we were getting ready to leave the country; now, each family member has 2 or more. Newsletters were mailed (snail mail) from the mission field to the mission base, and there photo-copied and mailed (snail mail again) to the donors; they often required some ingenuity to contain a “timely” issue when they arrived. The advantage was that no one expected an immediate answer. Replying sometime that day or the next was being very punctual. So, in the years since I have taken over the publicity side, I still have a hard time feeling at home with the technology.

After much deliberation and research, I set up a Facebook page for the ministry. After all, most of our friends are on Facebook. And then I start to panic. “What am I supposed to do with this? What am I supposed to do first, at least? How do I REACH our friends here on Facebook and get them to follow this so that they can see the updates?”

Anyhow, the posting challenges are:

• Setting up the page for everyone in the family/on the team to be able to post to it
• Catching the page up to date on what everyone HAS been posting, but has been unable to post onto the page.
  • Correcting security features to allow both of these to happen.
    • Finding the right button to correct the security.

As you can tell, I actually have to do the LAST one first. I'm not even sure I'm going to succeed in getting clear up to the first one. If I can at least partially do the last one, I'll feel very lucky. I am close to freaking from how complicated this feels. All I wanted to do was share what Facebook brought up about an older post. But if I go chasing it, I'm going to leave this page and close out the post that I'm trying to share on this page, and it's going to get lost in the ethernet. And I am not even sure how I'd find it again, much less post it.

Eventually . . . I succeeded!