[fvc-wat-disc] Anita's suggestions

[Anita Nickerson]

I moved "chapters" up the drop-down menu on the national site.

Anita

On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 5:34 PM Dave Arthur <arthurd23 at bell.net> wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I asked Anita about information on the FVC website about local chapters.
>
> She said results have been mixed in the past and it’s been difficult to
> have information kept up to date.
>
> I did find the list of chapters but had to go to About Us, then to
> Contact, then to Chapters.
>
> Rather round-about. I did ask Anita about that.
>
> I counted 34 local chapters, 15 in Ontario and 10 in BC.
>
> 15 had Facebook pages and only 6 had websites and ours is down.
>
> Obviously social media has pretty much taken over and I have to admit not
> for me.
>
> I have Facebook but rarely use it.
>
> Anyway, Anita made the following suggestions for reaching out.
>
> Perhaps we should try to use them.
>
> Dave A
>
>
>
> *In terms of outreach and connecting with others in the PR movement, what
> would be much more useful for Waterloo would be :*
>
> *Facebook*: Get a volunteer to consistently do your facebook page. Right
> now you have 212 fans, most of which probably liked the page 8 years ago,
> which is not a lot for an area of 500,000 people. The only one who posts on
> there is me, and that's only occasionally when I post something generic on
> the national page and I want as many people as possible to see it, so I
> cross-post to a bunch of pages. Other than that, Jenn posted a national
> thing in Sept 2019 and Laurel posted in March 2019 - two years ago. There's
> rarely anything local posted. There's an opportunity to build your facebook
> community. Somebody who likes to make memes? Or create facebook events for
> your meetings?  Or post local letters to the editor with comments from FV
> Waterloo?
>
> *Twitter*: I see you last posted Sept 2020, but before that it was mostly
> in 2019. If you get somebody active on that account FVC National will
> retweet you! Many more people will see that than anything on the website.
> Twitter is a great way to stay in touch with local journalists, too. Some
> folks like Jonathan Cassells is on twitter a lot and could take on this
> account.
>
> *Instagram*: If you have anybody younger... :) Our national Instagram is
> finally getting going this year cause the TO team took it on.
>
>
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