Club promotion and social media
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Topic: Club promotion and social media
Posted By: Kev M
Subject: Club promotion and social media
Date Posted: 01 Feb 12 at 12:46pm
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It looks like our club's Facebook group has finally been archived, it was never very active before but now it is next to useless as it has kicked out all of the members. As I seem to have been put in charge of organising an open day and I'm looking at various ways of promoting I think we need to start again with Facebook. From a club perspective is a Group better, because it allows user input or is a Page better because it shows up new items in it's members' news feeds and because they make it easier for members to share articles among friends who aren't members of the group? What other ideas has your club got for using social media for promotion? ------------- Successfully confusing ambition with ability since 1980. |
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Posted By: Oli
Date Posted: 01 Feb 12 at 1:09pm
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pages are definately better than groups, you can allow moderate access for members to interact and with page apps you can add your club webcams, race cards etc to it. pagemodo is a good landing page editor, stylish whilst putting the essentials upfront for non members to see instantly. also you can have rss feed intergration from the clubs main website meaning the fb admin doesnt have to upload everything and if your club has a twitter account it can link straight into that also, again saving another edit and upload. we use the events tab for social gatherings and work parties etc, even if the members dont put themselves as attending at least you have notified them directly to what is occuring at the club and not just relied on the timeline for getting their attention. ------------- https://skiff-media.teemill.com/" rel="nofollow - T-SHIRTS https://www.photo4me.com/profile/23908/" rel="nofollow - PRINTS |
Posted By: Mark Jardine
Date Posted: 01 Feb 12 at 1:18pm
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Pages can also be embedded on YachtsandYachting.com news articles whereas Groups can't - take a look at the Facebook/Twitter tab at the bottom of http://www.yachtsandyachting.com/news/161107/Foiling-moths-dominate-39th-Bloody-Mary - http://www.yachtsandyachting.com/news/161107/Foiling-moths-dominate-39th-Bloody-Mary to see what I mean. If your club or class has an active Facebook page or Twitter feed then tell me about it and I'll make sure it's associated with the reports. |
Posted By: Kev M
Date Posted: 01 Feb 12 at 2:38pm
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It sounds like pages are the way forward then. Thanks chaps. ------------- Successfully confusing ambition with ability since 1980. |
Posted By: jeffers
Date Posted: 01 Feb 12 at 4:30pm
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We have both at Hunts...an 'offical' page run by a member of the club committee with content strictly limited to 'official' stuff.
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Hunts-Sailing-Club/160349837365993 - Clicky
We also have an 'unofficial' group for banter, chat and sailing gossip. the 'unofficial' group is pretty active these days and requires very little moderation.
http://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/198070206889781/ - Clicky ------------- Paul ---------------------- D-Zero GBR 74 |
Posted By: rogue
Date Posted: 06 Feb 12 at 3:11pm
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pages are really good- they're what's going to save facebook from itself, those bloody guardian and netflix apps are pretty intrusive, chat is sh*t (who wants to let anyone know when they're on facebook!) and that newsfeed is irritating to say the least... especially if you click on something totally random and it posts something to your own recent activity. the only saving grace for facebook is pages (to organise mutual interests) and the fact that everyone's already on it... G+ is a much better social media tool (for google employees anyway)
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Posted By: MRJP BUZZ 585
Date Posted: 06 Feb 12 at 3:55pm
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Posted By: craiggo
Date Posted: 06 Feb 12 at 7:27pm
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Posted By: Kev M
Date Posted: 16 Feb 12 at 2:25pm
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Right, the Page is sorted and linked to Twitter although it's only cross-posting one way at the minute. Mark, when you post articles do they automatically appear on your FB page or do you have to post them manually? ------------- Successfully confusing ambition with ability since 1980. |
Posted By: Mark Jardine
Date Posted: 16 Feb 12 at 3:17pm
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Hi Kev If you could email me with your FB and Twitter page URL's I'll add them to our database so that anytime we get a report from your club racing, your pages will be embedded on the report tabs. If you want to then feature the report on your Facebook page, you just need to post the YachtsandYachting.com URL of it - Facebook will pick up all the information it needs from tags which we embed in the page. I hope this all makes sense. Cheers, Mark |
Posted By: Kev M
Date Posted: 16 Feb 12 at 3:23pm
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Thanks Mark, PM is on it's way. Kev ------------- Successfully confusing ambition with ability since 1980. |
Posted By: Kev M
Date Posted: 29 Feb 12 at 4:44pm
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After all that work Facebook has just killed the free version of Pagemodo by making all pages use timeline and forcing everyone to use timeline as the default landing page. If I get my hands on Mark Zuckerberg I swear I'll.............................. ------------- Successfully confusing ambition with ability since 1980. |
Posted By: rogue
Date Posted: 29 Feb 12 at 5:06pm
| yep- sucks, but it's free... I personally think timeline is a complete mess, it looks even worse when it's an organisation rather than a individual... hey ho |
Posted By: upsidedown
Date Posted: 11 Dec 12 at 2:07pm
| What would be the impact on your club if 10 - 15% of the membership left? |
Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 11 Dec 12 at 6:34pm
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Nothing straight away, but the loss of revenue would bite eventually.
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