Club
Web Site
Building and maintaining a club web site is an increasingly
important communications tool.
Having a well-designed web site not only improves communication
with your club's members, it also can serve as an extremely
effective way to promotoe your club. In designing your
club's web site, it's a good idea to construct your
home page with non-Toastmaster visitors in mind. There
should be ample information to provide a visitor with
a strong indication of what Toastmasters is about, an
introduction to your club, and mention of your club's
meeting time and location. In providing this information,
the site should also invite guests to come and learn
what Toastmasters has to offer.
Building Your Club Web Site
Just as there are nearly as many newsletter designs
as newsletters, the number of ways in which you can
design your club's web site are almost limitless. However,
there are a few design philosophies and guidelines to
keep in mind when designing your site.
Internet Guidelines
As your club designs and builds its own web site, please
review the stated Internet policy of Toastmasters International.
This policy is available on the Internet Guidelines
page of the Toastmasters International web site.
Promoting Your Site
After you club's web site is up and running, the site
won't help you promote your club if you don't promote
the site as well. As such, your club should strive to
use all of the publicity tools at its disposal to mention
the web address of your club's site. For example, be
sure to list the web address on your club newsletter
and in any newspaper announcements you have. Additionally,
you can submit the address of your site to search engines
such as Yahoo!
Finally, make sure that your club's web address is
listed when you submit the Club
and Officer Information form.
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