District Webmasters
District Webmasters
Monthly Tech Tip
Facebook and Your Chapter
How would you like to advertise your chapter events,
rides and fundraisers for FREE? Well, Facebook is a way to do it. Facebook is a
social networking website that friends use to find and communicate with each
other. You can use Facebook the same way for your chapter.
Johnette and I use Facebook as a way of sharing Chapter K’s experiences with our
members and the world. At this time, Chapter K has 164 friends from all over the
USA and the world. It has turned out to be the best way to share pictures with
all of our members. This is also another great way of getting information out to
everyone in addition to emails and the Callingpost. Another upside to this is
you get to see pictures of other GWRRA chapters and member rides from all over
the world.
We will attempt to give you some guidelines for setting up your Facebook account
and protecting yourself. We used the chapter’s official email address as our
account login. This way the chapter’s Facebook account is separate from our
personal Facebook account. These setting can also be used for your personal
account.
Let’s get started and join Facebook.
Go to Facebook.com
Join facebook with your chapter as a
person,
name, email address, date your
chapter was charted if you know it and website.
Take the
time to setup your account. Use security settings that you feel comfortable
with.
Here are the tabs that you should go through for your settings.
Account Settings, My Account Tab,
Notification Tab, Security Settings,
Privacy
Settings, Profile Information, Contact Information, Block List
DO NOT USE THE EMAIL ADD FRIENDS FEATURE. THIS WILL GIVE FACEBOOK ACCESS TO YOUR
EMAIL CONTACT LIST.
NEVER, NEVER, NEVER
GIVE ANY WEBSITE OR COMPUTER PROGRAM ACCESS TO YOUR CONTACT LIST. THIS CAN LEAD
TO HACKING OF YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT.
After you set up your FB account you
can start adding friends from your chapter by using search at the top of the
page.
In no
time, people will find you.
Some tricks for adding friends when they ask to be your friend.
Click on their name and check out
their pictures if you can see them. This will let you know if they are
motorcycle riders or not. Remember, you can always say no.
Be neutral in your opinions as to not
offend anyone.
We do not add any businesses as to
not show favoritism. We do not support anyone’s causes or political agendas. (
just our opinion )
We hide all of the games to cut back
on entries.
This Facebook account is for your
members to socialize and share information and pictures.
Don’t forget to add your website
link. This is also another place to post your event / ride calendar and your
newsletter.
All you have to do is post these
documents on your website, then go to your Facebook account and link (point) to
these pages on your website.
We hope the above information will be
helpful with starting up your Facebook account. As always, you can contact
Johnette and I by email if you need any help, have any questions or just want to
say hello.
Johnette and I would like to wish
EVERYONE a safe and happy Holiday Season and a Prosperous New Year.
Riding on a Wing and a Prayer
Fritz & Johnette Beter