Use GROUPS features to activate your members
We hope that individuals and groups are finding their way around SAC’s sustainability hub website. We wanted to let you know that there are several things you can do to maximize the attention to your group and events:
1. CREATE A GROUP! If you haven’t created a group for your organization, agency, business, institute, neighborhood, or club yet, please go ahead and create it. If you notice that groups are missing from the site, please send them on over. Groups don’t have to be “official” in any way — you can create a group to network about any topic of interest, from bird watching to pizza making. Groups can even be “private” if you want to communicate with a limited number of folks on some issue — you’ll just have to let them know where to find the private group.
2. INVITE PEOPLE TO JOIN YOUR GROUP. You can invite any site members to join your group. You should also reach out to your real-world friends or members and get them to come over and join the site and group. When a person becomes an individual member of the site (free), they can join any groups that grab their interest.
3. USE YOUR GROUP WIRE to generate buzz and communicate with group members. Every time you post a news or “wire” item in your group space, all of the members can be notified. You could use this area for weekly updates, monthly news, volunteer requests, or group discussions. Group members can post replies for discussion topics.
4. POST GROUP EVENTS to the main calendar. (Click on “Create an Event” when you first log in.) Your events will then be listed and visible for everyone who visits the site to see. You can also set up private events. Remember to post event reminders and updates in your group news section, so members of your group get alerted to event changes or needs.
You can see that there are many ways to use the GROUPS feature on SAC’s website. These hints should help you maximize attention to your events, discussions, and volunteer needs. Make sure to invite your friends and contacts to come on over and join SAC’s site — we are getting a nice critical mass going here and we want to keep the energy flowing!
Susan Marynowski, for the entire SAC Board
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