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Can anyone recommend a user friendly website for camera club please.
thanks
Can anyone recommend a user friendly website for camera club please.
thanks
First decide what you want to do.Can anyone recommend a user friendly website for camera club please.
do you want to build it yourself or you thinking of paying someone to do it? Also would be nice to know the functionality you want to have there.... is that some sort small forum with ability to upload photos etc?
Yes.does anyone know a good way to gain members for a facebook group?
- Bob volunteers to do it all. He's just retired, got a lot of time on his hands and once wrote a website in 1998.
- Bob lovingly handcrafts a website from the bottom-up with hand-crocheted html code using a cheap but obscure bare bones hosting service. It seems to take an age to add anything new or update club news, and it crashes every 8 weeks. But Bob's very good at fixing it, and besides he's on the committee and his wife bakes a very nice Victoria sponge for competition nights.
- Three years later Bob has a stroke and no one else knows how the website works, no one is entirely sure who's hosting the website and no one knows the passwords.
- Then along comes Henry. Henry's just retired, got a lot of time on his hands and once wrote a website in 2001.
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I'm increasingly coming to the conclusion that Facebook is by far the most robust platform for 95% of community groups/clubs.You must be telepathic. This happened to our village trust website with the exception that it was Bob's friend's son who charges £100 to host it (and owns the domain name!). It is turning into a nightmare to actually get the ability to control and add content. I'm pushing to move it to Wordpress, start with a new domain, give several people permission to access it and poke them with a stick to do so. When I then get run over by a bus, or have a stroke at least two other people will know how to at least keep it going until another "volunteer" comes along.
I'm increasingly coming to the conclusion that Facebook is by far the most robust platform for 95% of community groups/clubs.
It's best not to make people join Facebook in order to be a full member of the club. You create a division in the club. On top of that, Facebook makes it hard for people to access any public information.I'm increasingly coming to the conclusion that Facebook is by far the most robust platform for 95% of community groups/clubs.
And if you want to get fancy buy a domain and slap a redirect on it. As mentioned in another thread I'm a founding Admin of a FB community and that's what we've done. I'd prefer a website with forum structure, but in all honesty we don't have the available time/expertise combination to set that up and run it without turning it into a semi-commercial venture and risking the community spirit so far established. I think I've got out local social club to agree to the same way forward.
I used to think that, and then I got involved in a club whose web presence is entirely based on Facebook where for a significant number of members it's their only involvement with Facebook. As far as data protection and identity security is concerned it's safer and better controlled than many traditional clubs, where full personal details and addresses are held on "Bob's database".It's best not to make people join Facebook in order to be a full member of the club. You create a division in the club. On top of that, Facebook makes it hard for people to access any public information.
I used to think that, and then I got involved in a club whose web presence is entirely based on Facebook where for a significant number of members it's their only involvement with Facebook. As far as data protection and identity security is concerned it's safer and better controlled than many traditional clubs, where full personal details and addresses are held on "Bob's database".
He's a bit stressed. We're all getting worried about him.Well you can compare anything to your worst case scenario. Oh. And by the way, how is old Bob doing? I'm worried about him.
Something that's puzzled me, why are so many camera clubs weekly? It seems rather excessive/unrealistic and possibly off-putting to prospective members.the actual number who attend on a weekly basis
Something that's puzzled me, why are so many camera clubs weekly? It seems rather excessive/unrealistic and possibly off-putting to prospective members.
No charge? how can you run a club and not charge, even if you have no outside speakers how do you pay for the hall or one main thing insurance?Well, I can't speak for your own opinion, but, considering when we started we had only 4-5 regular members, and now, 4 years later we have 25-30 every week and new people attending on a regular basis, we must be doing something right.
We do excursions and various talks, lessons and we are more of a social gathering rather than a club. We have no membership fees, no one runs it and there is absolutely no obligation to turn up, but, we seem to be pretty popular.
Yu say weekly, but it is not 52 weeks, most clubs meet during the winter months, some will have a much more relaxed summer program meeting for a photo walk or an event.Something that's puzzled me, why are so many camera clubs weekly? It seems rather excessive/unrealistic and possibly off-putting to prospective members.
No charge? how can you run a club and not charge, even if you have no outside speakers how do you pay for the hall or one main thing insurance?
Ah so you do have a charge, beware about UK laws with any club that handles any money from the members. Just a warning not wish anyone to get into hot water when trying to be helpful.We hold our group in a place called The Lighthouse Project, we do not pay for the room we use and insurance is all covered by The Lighthouse Project, in addition, we are at the top of a shopping precinct.
We do not have a membership, but, everyone gives £1 every time they attend, this goes towards paying for refreshments or equipment for our group attendees.
Ah ok, I see its a church run thing, boy how did you get permission to use Music by Florence and the machine for your video?The money we receive is considered a voluntary donation as we are situated in a charitable organisations premises, we are not in a hall, it's a proper well established organisation, here is what I mean ...http://www.lighthouseproject.org.uk
All the info is saying it's a christen charity.Well, it's not a church run thing, it's a community organisation, a charity, but, what video are you referring to ?
All the info is saying it's a christen charity.
Here is the video the web page links to.
View: https://vimeo.com/25559769
All the info is saying it's a christen charity.
Here is the video the web page links to.
View: https://vimeo.com/25559769
Chaz, I just checked the page that The Lighthouse Project is based at and I saw no video or information relating to it being a christian run charity, please can you show me what your referring to.