My dad is relatively new to social media but has (sort of) embraced it. He’s on Twitter (but doesn’t Tweet that often) and Facebook and while having lunch with him today and hearing him talk about the barbershop group he’s a member of, I suggested that he start a fan page.  After explaining what that was, he became very excited about it and I agree that it’s a great option for his group.

So tonight I spent a bit of time setting up 2 fan pages for him — one for the overall barbershop group and one for his quartet.  He’s so passionate about singing so anything I can do to help promote that makes me happy.  I set up the fan pages, then used the “suggest your friends become fans” option for him which he was even more thrilled with.

While this was a great step, I reminded him that 1) he needed to update these pages regularly and 2) that he and others in the group need to start promoting it and encouraging people to become their fans.  My next step is to get a link on their website to the fan pages which, to those of us who do this every day is a piece of cake, but to my dad is not so simple.  But he’s interested in learning and is REALLY excited about the fan pages so he’ll either figure it out or ask for help.

It’s so encouraging that he sees the value in creating a community around his barbershop group, and I think it makes perfect sense to do so.  I recommended that they start recording some of their performances and taking more pictures to post to Facebook (and to their website, for that matter).  Who knows, helping him with this could turn into a part-time job for me.  ;-)