Monday, November 30, 2015

December 2015 Report

We use our Blog as our Newsletter. You can reach the Newsletter blog from our web site or go directly to the blog at: sarasotasistercities.com.

We put the same or similar information on our other social media. We encourage you to network with us if you use Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Pinterest or Google+. You can post information directly to these sites.

The three sites below disseminate information - no log in required - just click on the link below:


Blog            sarasotasistercities.com

Web            sarasotasistercities.org

Pinterest     sarasotasistercities.us



You can reach all of our links and systems from the left column of the blog:


The systems below are best to build interaction among Sister City Members. If you use them please post information and photos of interest to Sister City members directly.






Google+     goo.gl/HgfrE


Twitter        twitter.com/#!/SarasotaSisterC

We are slowly adding videos to our sites. We also have added a large number of photos. You can find these sites in the left column on the blog or by clicking the link below:






The blog is the best site to learn about what Sister Cities has done or what is upcoming. We post upcoming information and also photos of events. The Website automatically picks up the latest 5 posts from the blog. The Website also has the best information about policies and our sister cities. Pinterest provides a great pictorial history of the organization.


Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Google+ are all designed to get people to interact. We post a short message on each system with a link back to the blog. You have to sign up for these programs - this is free and simple.  You will want go to our pages and like or friend or link to them. Then you will see what we post and everyone will see what you post. Over time we hope to get a number of people interacting on these systems.


In addition to our main blog of sarasotasistercities.com we have also set up a blog for each of our eight Sister Cities. The idea is that these blogs will focus on just the relationship of Sarasota with that Sister City.


The City Director's can of course use this or not as they wish. Anything they want to add or delete from their blog send it to me and I will be add ior delete the information. I would also be happy to assist them to learn how to make entries on the blog themselves, or I will post for them if they prefer. They can just send me an email with any corrections, deletions, or additions.


The individual city blog address can be typed directly or can be found in the left column of the main blog. The address always starts with the name of the sister city followed by Sarasota, then blogspot.com.  I used the short name for the Sister City - not the province, which would make for a long and hard to remember address.


Let me know of any changes that should be made.




Dave Harralson is experiementing with  a Newsletter to be emailed to the membership. We will also put this on all of our social media.
Dave Harralson has new membership database program running.  It is a nice system that should help us improve our media interactions with our memberships. Dave and Carrie are providing training for Board Members and they can help you log in if you have trouble using the system.   I



Send info to:      sarasotasistercities@gmail.com


Sunday, October 25, 2015

Social Networking Report - October 25, 2015

We continue our efforts to improve communication among our members. We first publish information about Sarasota Sister Cities on our blog. We post a link to this information on our Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Google+ pages. It takes a village to develop excellent communication - we must have many people participating if it is to be effective. I encourage you to post information directly to our Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, or Twitter pages - these system works best if we have many people participating.

We also email our membership periodically, generally about once a month. We also publish a news release to the Tampa Bay Wire at tampabaynewswire.com. We also email a news release to the Sarasota Herald Tribune heraldtribune.com and the Sarasota Observeryourobserver.com/Sarasota. We also send the notice to the City of Sarasota for inclusion in the Barwin Brief.

We encourage you to send us information of interest to our members and others. You can send this information by email, but better to post it yourself on our Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Pinterest or Google+ pages.Our email address is sarasotasistercities@gmail.com

The three sites below disseminate information - no log in required - just click on the link below:

Blog sarasotasistercities.com

Web sarasotasistercities.org

Pinterest sarasotasistercities.us

You can reach all of our links and systems from the left column of the blog:

sarasotasistercities.com

The systems below are best to build interaction among Sister City Members. If you use them please post information and photos of interest to Sister City members directly.

Facebook facebook.com/SarasotaSisterCities

LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/sarasotasistercities

Google+ goo.gl/HgfrE

Twitter twitter.com/#!/SarasotaSisterC

We are slowly adding videos to our sites. We also have added a large number of photos. You can find these sites in the left column on the blog or by clicking the link below:

Videos plus.google.com/116804334249799449066/videos

Photos plus.google.com/116804334249799449066/photos

The blog is the best site to learn about what Sister Cities has done or what is upcoming. We post upcoming information and also photos of events. Our Website 
sarasotasistercities.org automatically picks up the latest 5 posts from the blog. The Website also has the best information about policies and our sister cities. Pinterest provides a great pictorial history of the organization.

Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Google+ are all designed to get people to interact. We post a short message on each system with a link back to the blog. You have to sign up for these programs - this is free and simple. You will want go to our pages and like or friend or link to them. Then you will see what we post and everyone will see what you post. Over time we hope to get a number of people interacting on these systems.

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