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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks Anita. I think that will be helpful for visitors to the site.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows 10</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:anitann88@gmail.com">Anita Nickerson</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, January 28, 2021 6:20 PM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:fvc-wat-disc@listserv.thinkers.org">FVC Waterloo Region Discussion</a><br><b>Cc: </b><a href="mailto:bjonkman@sobac.com">Bob Jonkman</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [fvc-wat-disc] Anita's suggestions</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>I moved "chapters" up the drop-down menu on the national site. </p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Anita</p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 5:34 PM Dave Arthur <<a href="mailto:arthurd23@bell.net">arthurd23@bell.net</a>> wrote:</p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Hi all</p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I asked Anita about information on the FVC website about local chapters.</p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>She said results have been mixed in the past and it’s been difficult to have information kept up to date.</p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I did find the list of chapters but had to go to About Us, then to Contact, then to Chapters.</p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Rather round-about. I did ask Anita about that.</p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I counted 34 local chapters, 15 in Ontario and 10 in BC.</p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>15 had Facebook pages and only 6 had websites and ours is down.</p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Obviously social media has pretty much taken over and I have to admit not for me.</p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I have Facebook but rarely use it.</p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Anyway, Anita made the following suggestions for reaching out.</p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Perhaps we should try to use them.</p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Dave A</p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> </p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b>In terms of outreach and connecting with others in the PR movement, what would be much more useful for Waterloo would be :</b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b>Facebook</b>: 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?<br><br><b>Twitter</b>: 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. <br><br><b>Instagram</b>: If you have anybody younger... :) Our national Instagram is finally getting going this year cause the TO team took it on. </p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> </p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986" target="_blank">Mail</a> for Windows 10</p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> </p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________<br>This is the fvc-wat-disc mailing list<br>Post a message: <a href="mailto:fvc-wat-disc@listserv.thinkers.org" target="_blank">fvc-wat-disc@listserv.thinkers.org</a><br>Unsubscribe: <a href="http://listserv.thinkers.org/mailman/listinfo/fvc-wat-disc_listserv.thinkers.org" target="_blank">http://listserv.thinkers.org/mailman/listinfo/fvc-wat-disc_listserv.thinkers.org</a></p></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><br clear=all></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>-- </p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i>Proportional representation delivers more of what YOU voted for!</i></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>Sign the Declaration: <a href="http://www.fairvote.ca/declaration" target="_blank">www.fairvote.ca/declaration</a></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>