Facebook – Post to Groups Without Notifying Members

This is what I dug up a few months ago while considering the move from an organization's Group over to a Page:

• Pages have better brand integration (posts/updates would appear to come from the Organization as opposed to individual members on its behalf

• the counter point to this is that you can't directly blast messages to your "followers/members/friends" the same way you can to friends or in a group. Pages can only send out "Updates" to all their "fans", which is treated a little differently in that it doesn't go directly into a user's Inbox (different tab to click) and tend get ignored more, IMO

• Pages have no cap on member messaging (can only send to 5000 in a Group)

• Pages can be more easily found in a public search engine (more control in SEO)

• stat tracking, and add-on apps for Pages

• social widget integration for Pages (ie. you can put that "Like" badge on your main site to easily integrate back to Facebook)

• Events are handled the same (was an important consideration for my organization)

Here's a good write up for more detail:

http://www.allfacebook.com/2010/02/facebook-groups-pages/

The group needs to be private (closed or secret), otherwise they publish updates.

Something you can do, which I know isn't ideal, is to delete from your time-line the publication of the group update. Of course, if one of your friends just refreshed his stream before you got a chance to delete it, they might see it but it's better than nothing.