Breastfeeding, Birthday, Sunflowers, Corn, and a Question

by Raven

Here’s a full week of Facebook posts, some of which did very well on FB and some of which did just okay.

First was this repost from Twin Oaks of one of their children being breastfed. The culture at Twin Oaks encourages this.

This post did pretty well, with 171 views, but I sort of expected more and definitely expected more than the two likes and one love it got.

Ira Wallace is an amazing person, a founder of Acorn, a strong community advocate for many, many years, one of the key people behind Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, and also behind several agricultural festivals in Virginia–and much beloved in the communes. She just turned 75.

This was another post where it did well enough but I expected it to do much, much better. Usually anything featuring Ira does very, very well so I was disappointed in the numbers (I’d expect at least two hundred views) although the twelve likes and loves was more in the range I would imagine.

At Living Energy Farm, they are growing sunflowers. Lots and lots of sunflowers.

This one did the worst on Facebook of any in the week. I think of a hundred views as the minimum adequate viewing and this just missed it. (Although honestly it may straggle over a hundred in the upcoming weeks.) The seven likes and loves wasn’t bad.

If it was sunflowers at LEF, it was corn at East Wind.

This post did pretty well, with fourteen likes and loves and over a hundred and eighty views.

However, if I want to bring in the viewers on Facebook, there’s nothing like asking the right questions. Here’s the question I asked recently:

I was going for comments and I got comments. Sixteen of them (including one from me–an additional thought I had that I wanted to share). You’ll notice there were a lot of different opinions.

It did very, very well (although my last question got fifty-four comments and over a thousand views), with sixteen comments, five likes, one share, and over four hundred and sixty views. I guess folks on Facebook like to be asked questions.