Friday, June 11, 2021

Scoop From The President - Sarasota Sister Cities

Greetings!

We set this site up to tell people a little about what is happening with Sister Cities. Click on the link below:


Scoop From The President


 


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Saturday, August 10, 2019

Suggestions for the New Web Site August 10, 2019

Congratulations on creating the new web site. You will create a great web site and be able to maintain it with Wordpress.

We have substantial information on line, some of which should be incorporated into the new web site. You can either copy it into the web site or link it to the appropriate social media, or both, which ever you prefer.

Examples - We have an excellent pictorial history with commentary on our Pinterest page. You can copy the info into the new web site and/or link back into it. It would be lot of work to copy it all into the site, probably best to link to the site.

pinterest.com/sarasotasister

We have minimal info on the web site about our Sister Cities. We have a lot of info and photos on Blogs and Pinterest.com for each of our Cities, with some historic photos and more recent photos of our visits. 

 The address for each Sister City starts with the city name, followed by Sarasota, followed by blogspot.com. You could copy some of the photos from those sites and/or link to them. 

Example - Perpignan:

perpignansarasota.blogspot.com

pinterest.com/sarasotasister/perpignan-france


Example - Vladimir

vladimirsarasota.blogspot.com

pinterest.com/sarasotasister/vladimir-russia
Sister City Blogs
History of the organization

We have a history of the organization on a blog written by several of our past presidents. You can incorporate this into the web site and/or link back into the blog. A link to the Pinterest site would also be appropriate.

sarasotasistercitieshistory.blogspot.com

pinterest.com/sarasotasister/perpignan-france


Gsuite.com

I will give you a short brief on gsuite, where we can create email addresses ending in sarasotasistercities.com. It is pretty straight forward. We will need to get you set up to be administrators of the site.

Passwords

 I have previously provided the passwords to Isabelle and Tony, and will provide them again at our meeting. 


More info




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Tuesday, January 24, 2017

VP of Communications Turn Over File Jan 24, 2017

It has been my pleasure to work with Sarasota Sister Cities over the past six years as Vice President of Communications. During that time we have created many ways to communicate with our members, including Blogs, a Web Site, and Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Google+ pages to promote our organization. We also produced an excellent video.

I have prepared this turn over file for the incoming VP of Communications.  This describes how I have approached the work - the new VP can of course proceed as she or he sees fit. I will supply the passwords on request. I will also be happy to help the new VP as he or she gets underway.  Contact me if you need any help or assistance.  Craighullinger@gmail.com  309  634 5557.
  
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We use social marketing to inform our membership. Our principle addresses are:
​
Blog          sarasotasistercities.com (This is our online newsletter)

Web          sarasotasistercities.org

You can Post Directly to the sites below:

Facebook  facebook.com/SarasotaSisterCities

Twitter       twitter.com/#!/SarasotaSisterC

LinkedIn    linkedin.com/in/sarasotasistercities


Our Emails  sarasotasistercities@gmail.com
                  
                    Your name or title here@sarasotasistercities.com



Our blog sarasotasistercities.com is our online newsletter. This is heart of our communication effort. We keep a calendar events at the top, and amplify the  information with photos on older posts.  The address actually forwards to a blog, sarastosistercities.blogspot.com

We email our members several times each month with notices of events. We copy the blog entry into the email so that graphics are sent. We also post each blog entry to our Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+ accounty,

 We use two email addresses - sarasotasistercities@gmail.com and (Your name or Title Here)@sarasotasistercities@gmail.com.

The VP controls this google group account. You can grant email addresses to those members who wish to use the system.

Google has provided us a domain email for free, since we are a non profit.  We have created an email address when they are requested by Board Members.  The address is your title or name, followed by @sarasotasistercities.com

 The system is similar to gmail. It also provides a way to share documents and photographs. A little confusing but you can figure it out.

Using the domain email is of course voluntary.  If you do use the email it might make it simpler to use it with a separate web browser - perhaps use the Microsoft browser for your regular email and use Chrome or Firefox for your Sister City email.  That way you won't have to log in and out of the two email systems. Or you can choose to forward the Sister City email to your regular account.

The Blogs and Google+ are written with the gmail addresses. The calendar of the organization is kept on the calendar of Sarasotasistercities@gmail.com

You can post information and photos and interact with others on the addresses below. All of our members and friends are encouraged to join us. These systems work best if we have a number of our members posting.

We continue our efforts with our Facebook page. If you use Facebook please check out our page, and contribute thoughts, ideas, and events: 
facebook.com/SarasotaSisterCities

If you use Twitter please join us. It is easy to create an account and post directly yourself. And prove to everyone that you are up to date. twitter.com/SarasotaSisterC

We also continue our efforts on LinkedIn and Pinterest.

LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/sarasotasistercities

Pinterest pinterest.com/sarasotasister






Pinterest provides an interesting visual history of the
organization.

And of course our Web Site. We use the consultant Steve Maxey to update the site and we change it infrequently. It does pick up info from the blog automatically and has links to our social media. sarasotasistercities.org

 We VP of Membership maintains our membership records on imembersdb.com

From this site you can update your own records and membership records.  You should be able to log in initially using your email address and your zip code. Membership VP Dave Harralson maintains this site and can help you get access membership@sarasotasistercities.com

 You can email our entire membership from the IMembersDB site.  An advantage of using this is that the email is personalized to each member and the membership is current.  The disadvantage is that you cannot include graphics in the email.


We established a blog that has spreadsheets exported from IMembersDB showing Board contact info and Members Contacts.  boardssc.blogspot.com 

The Board emails are open - the spread sheet of all our members is private.

We have many photos on line. You can see them on our Pinterest page or see them from the left column of the blog. Or Click Here.





We have a nice video that explains our Citizen Diplomacy.

Click to View the Video

Click to View the Video
 

If any of you would like to help improve our social marketing systems give me a call or send me an email or just jump in and start posting to our Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, or Twitter addresses. And if you know anyone who can help with this effort please put me in contact with me. I am likely beyond help but would appreciate it nevertheless.

I continue to post news releases with little success. It is easy to write a news release on the Tampa Bay News Wire and theoretically the papers will pick this up. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.






News Release tampabaynewswire.com

We have a Publicity Director position that reports to the VP of Membership.  Unfortunately we have not been able to fill this position. You would be accomplishing a great deal if you can find a good person for this job. 





If you have articles or photos to share, please send them to us and we will post them to the blog and social media.
Sister City Blogs

We have established a blog for each of our Sister Cities. We encourage the City Directors to post photos and notices on their blog. 















xiamensarasota.blogspot.com
 
sarasotasistercities@gmail.com
Our Social Networking report: 

 socialnetworkingreport.blogspot.com


Sarasota Sister Cities Social Marketing Plan

sistercitiessocialmarketing.blogspot.com


Sarasota Sister Cites Plan
sscplan.blogspot.com

Sunsets Sarasota
sunsetssarasota.blogspot.com

socialmarketing301.blogspot.com


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Sunday, January 22, 2017

Social Marketing Report January 2017



Social Marketing Report January 2017


Our blog sarasotasistercities.com is our online newsletter. We keep a calendar pf events at the top and amplify the information with photos on older posts. All of our events for the past five years are on the blog.

 We will be glad to publish information about Sarasota Sister events.  Email it to me at sarasotasistercities@gmail.com, preferably with graphics, and I will post it on the blog. You can also post information directly yourself on our Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Pinterest pages.

 If you see a mistake on our systems please let me know and I will correct it.

We email our members several times each month with notices of events. We use two email addresses - sarasotasistercities@gmail.com and craighullinger@sarasotasistercities.com

 You can post information and photos and interact with others on our social media addresses. All of our members and friends are encouraged to join us. These systems work best if we have a number of our members posting.

We continue our efforts with our Facebook page. If you use Facebook please check out our page, and contribute thoughts, ideas, and events  
facebook.com/SarasotaSisterCities

If you use Twitter please join us. It is easy to create an account and post directly yourself. And prove to everyone that you are up to date. twitter.com/SarasotaSisterC

We also continue our efforts on LinkedIn and Pinterest.

LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/sarasotasistercities

Pinterest pinterest.com/sarasotasister

And of course our Web Site. We use a consultant to update the site and we change it infrequently. It does pick up info from the blog automatically and has links to our social media. sarasotasistercities.org

 We maintain our membership records on 
www.imembersdb.com

From this site you can update your own records and membership records.  You should be able to log in initially using your email address and your zip coe. Membership VP Dave Harralson maintains this site and can help you get access membership@sarasotasistercities.com
I maintain a blog that has spreadsheets showing Board contact info and Members Contacts.  boardssc.blogspot.com 
The Board is open - you have to ask me for access to obtain access to all our membership. 

We have many photos on line. You can see them on our Pinterest page or see them from the left column of the blog. Or Click Here.
Google has provided us a domain email for free, since we are a non profit.  We will create an email address as Board Members request.  The address will be your title or name, followed by @sarasotasistercities.com

 The system is similar to gmail. It also provides a way to share documents and photographs.  A little confusing but you can figure it out.

Using the domain email is of course voluntary.  If you do use the email it might make it simpler to use it with a separate web browser - perhaps use the Microsoft browser for your regular email and use Chrome or Firefox for you Sister City email.  That way you won't have to log in and out of the two email systems. Or you can choose to forward the Sister City email to your regular account.

If any of you would like to help improve our social marketing systems give me a call or send me an email or just jump in and start posting to our Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, or Twitter addresses. And if you know anyone who can help with this effort please put me in contact with me. I am likely beyond help but would appreciate it nevertheless.
If you have articles or photos to share, please send them to us and we will post them to the blog and social media.
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Thursday, January 19, 2017

Sister City Blogs



Sister City Blogs

We have established a blog for each of our Sister Cities. We encourage the City Directors to post photos and notices on their blog. 















xiamensarasota.blogspot.com
craighullinger@sarasotasistercities.com
Our Social Networking report:  socialnetworkingreport.blogspot.com

Sarasota Sister Cities Social Marketing Plan
sistercitiessocialmarketing.blogspot.com

Sarasota Sister Cites Plan
sscplan.blogspot.com

Sunsets Sarasota
sunsetssarasota.blogspot.com

socialmarketing301.blogspot.com

We use social marketing to inform our membership. Our principle addresses are:

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Tuesday, October 25, 2016

October 2016 Social Media Report

We use social marketing to inform our membership. Our principle addresses are:


Our blog sarasotasistercities.com is our online newsletter. We keep a calendar events at the top, and amplify the information with photos on older posts,

We email our members several times each month with notices of events. We use two email addresses - sarasotasistercities@gmail.com and craighullinger@sarasotasistercities@gmail.com
You can post information and photos and interact with others on the addresses below. All of our members and friends are encouraged to join us. These systems work best if we have a number of our members posting.

We continue our efforts with our Facebook page. If you use Facebook please check out our page, and contribute thoughts, ideas, and events  
facebook.com/SarasotaSisterCities

If you use Twitter please join us. It is easy to create an account and post directly yourself. And prove to everyone that you are up to date. twitter.com/SarasotaSisterC

We also continue our efforts on LinkedIn and Pinterest.

LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/sarasotasistercities

Pinterest pinterest.com/sarasotasister

And of course our Web Site. We use a consultant to update the site and we change it infrequently. It does pick up info from the blog automatically and has links to our social media. sarasotasistercities.org

 We maintain our membership records on 
www.imembersdb.com
From this site you can update your own records and membership records.  You should be able to log in initially using your email address and your zip coe. Membership VP Dave Harralson maintains this site and can help you get access membership@sarasotasistercities.com

 I maintain a blog that has spreadsheets showing Board contact info and Members Contacts.  boardssc.blogspot.com 
The Board is open - you have to ask me for access to obtain access to all our membership. 

We have many photos on line. You can see them on our Pinterest page or see them from the left column of the blog. Or Click Here.
Google has provided us a domain email for free, since we are a non profit.  We will create an email address as Board Members request.  The address will be your title or name, followed by @sarasotasistercities.com

 The system is similar to gmail. It also provides a way to share documents and photographs.  A little confusing but you can figure it out.

Using the domain email is of course voluntary.  If you do use the email it might make it simpler to use it with a separate web browser - perhaps use the Microsoft browser for your regular email and use Chrome or Firefox for you Sister City email.  That way you won't have to log in and out of the two email systems. Or you can choose to forward the Sister City email to your regular account.

A few of the new emails have started in the Estonian!! language. We don't know why. Great for internationalism but not so good for comprehension. If this happens give me a call at 309 634 5557 and I will help you get it back to English. 

If any of you would like to help improve our social marketing systems give me a call or send me an email or just jump in and start posting to our Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, or Twitter addresses. And if you know anyone who can help with this effort please put me in contact with me. I am likely beyond help but would appreciate it nevertheless.

I continue to post news releases with little success. It is easy to write a news release on the Tampa Bay News Wire and theoretically the papers will pick this up. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

News Release tampabaynewswire.com

If you have articles or photos to share, please send them to us and we will post them to the blog and social media.
Sister City Blogs

We have established a blog for each of our Sister Cities. We encourage the City Directors to post photos and notices on their blog. 















xiamensarasota.blogspot.com

craighullinger@sarasotasistercities.com
Our Social Networking report:  socialnetworkingreport.blogspot.com


Sarasota Sister Cities Social Marketing Plan
sistercitiessocialmarketing.blogspot.com


Sarasota Sister Cites Plan
sscplan.blogspot.com

Sunsets Sarasota
sunsetssarasota.blogspot.com

socialmarketing301.blogspot.com



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