Monday, May 23, 2016

Social Networking Report May 2016

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 oft he 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.

We email our members several times each month with notices of events. We publish our schedules, info and photos on our Newsletter Blog click: sarasotasistercities.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


In addition I will also use craighullinger@sarasotasistercities.com

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.

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 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.

craighullinger@sarasotasistercities.com





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Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Social Networking Report April 2016


Social Networking Report April 2016

We email our members several times each month with notices of events. We publish our schedules, info and photos on our Newsletter Blog click:  sarasotasistercities.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.



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.


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 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.

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 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.




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Monday, March 21, 2016

Social Networking Report March 2016


Social Networking Report March 2016

We are emailing our members several times each month with notices of events. It is a fine line from informing our membership and sending too many emails. Hopefully we have reached the correct balance. Dave Haralson and I have been splitting the duties. It is a good idea to have two or more people emailing our membership in case on of us is hit by a bus on a Sister Cities trip.

We publish our schedules, info and photos on our Newsletter Blog - click:  sarasotasistercities.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 now have 131 followers on our Twitter site.  Check it out. It is easy to create an account and post directly yourself. And prove to everyone that you are up to date.


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



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 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.

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 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

Pauline Mitchell did an outstanding job on the One World Award Luncheon and with the sign below which we can use when we go on the road.





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Thursday, February 18, 2016

February 2016 Social Marketing Report

Tel Mond, Israel Dancers in Sarasota Feb 17, 2016

 We publish our schedules, info and photos on our Newsletter Blog - click:  
Mayor Golan And Mayor Shaw


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:

 Facebook  facebook.com/SarasotaSisterCities

 Twitter       twitter.com/#!/SarasotaSisterC

 LinkedIn    linkedin.com/in/sarasotasistercities

 Pinterest   pinterest.com/sarasotasister


 Our web site:   sarasotasistercities.org 

We use the Email:         sarasotasistercities@gmail.com

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.


We look forward to seeing you.
General Eisenhower talking to the troops, later founded Sister Cities

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Monday, January 25, 2016

January 2016 Social Marketing Report

As you know we have an aggressive Social Marketing Effort.  We spread the word on our Newsletter Blog: sarasotasistercities.com

 We encourage the Board and all of our members to join us on:

 Facebook  facebook.com/SarasotaSisterCities
Twitter       twitter.com/#!/SarasotaSisterC
LinkedIn    linkedin.com/in/sarasotasistercities

 You can post information and photos and interact with others on these systems.

 You can reach all of these systems from our web site:
Web          sarasotasistercities.org 

We have a nice history of our organization on:


We have numerous photos and some videos on our blog.

We use the Email         sarasotasistercities@gmail.com

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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


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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.

Sister Cities Association of Sarasota

Citizen Diplomats - Carving a Path toward Peace
2015 One World Gala
2015 One World Gala / The Gala for 2015 / by Sister Cities Association of Sarasota
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Dunfermline, Scotland
Dunfermline, Scotland / Sarasota was first chartered in 1903 by a group of Scottish businessmen and in 2002, Dunfermline, located in West Fife; the ancient capital of Scotland became Sarasota’s sixth Sister City during ceremonies at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Center. / by Sister Cities Association of Sarasota
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Meet and Greet Photos
Meet and Greet Photos / Sarasota Sister Cities Meet & Greets are held monthly at locations in the City of Sarasota to provide an informal afterwork happy hour opportunity for members, guests and anyone interested in what Sister Cities is about or becoming involved as a citizen diplomat. Dates and locations of our Meet & Greets can be verified by going to: to our blog at: sarasotasistercities.com / by Sister Cities Association of Sarasota
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Scoop From Our Blog
Scoop From Our Blog / Scoop From Our Blog / by Sister Cities Association of Sarasota
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News
News / More news on our Blog http://sarasotasistercities.blogspot.com / by Sister Cities Association of Sarasota
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Vladimir, Russia
Vladimir, Russia / On October 29, 1994, City of Sarasota Mayor Nora Patterson led a delegation to Vladimir for the first official signing of the partnership agreement. More photos and information at http://sarasotavladimir.blogspot.com http://sarasotasistercities.blogspot.com / by Sister Cities Association of Sarasota
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Tel Mond, Israel
Tel Mond, Israel / In 1999 Tel Mond, Israeli Sharon, Israel became a new Sarasota sister city. The agreement was signed by Mayor Shlomo Ratzabi and Sarasota Mayor Molly Cardamone / by Sister Cities Association of Sarasota
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Perpignan, France
Perpignan, France / In 1994 Sarasota twinned with Perpignan, Pyrénées-Orientales, France. The official signing in Sarasota was by Sarasota Mayor Nora Patterson and the Vice Mayor of Perpignan, Dominique Schemia. / by Sister Cities Association of Sarasota
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Treviso Province, Italy
Treviso Province, Italy / In 2007 Treviso Province, Veneto, Italy, located between Venice and the Adriatic and the foothills of the Italian Alps, became twinned with Sarasota. / by Sister Cities Association of Sarasota
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Xiamen, China
Xiamen, China / In 2007 Xiamen, Fujian Province, China became twinned with Sarasota. An enthusiastic Sarasota delegation led by Mayor Lou Ann Palmer participated in signing ceremonies in Xiamen during June 5-11, 2007. / by Sister Cities Association of Sarasota
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Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico / On December 19, 2010, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico was twinned with Sarasota. Mayors Angélica Araujo Lara of Mérida and Kelly Kirschner of Sarasota signed the official twinning documents in the Courtyard of the John and Mabel Ringling Museum of Art. / by Sister Cities Association of Sarasota
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Hamilton. Ontario, Canada
Hamilton. Ontario, Canada / In 1990 Sarasota twinned with Hamilton, Ontario, Canada to encourage more visitors to Sarasota and to build good will with our neighbors to the North. Hamilton Mayor Bob Morrow was instrumental in initiating the twinning. / by Sister Cities Association of Sarasota
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2014 One World Gala
2014 One World Gala / Details on the Gala on the Blog / by Sister Cities Association of Sarasota
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2013 One World Gala
2013 One World Gala / by Sister Cities Association of Sarasota
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Scottish Memorial Dedication
Scottish Memorial Dedication / Ceremony conducted Dec. 6, 2013 by Sarasota Mayor Shannon Snyder and members of the Caledonia Club of West Florida & Sister Cities Assn of Sarasota at the point of landing in 1885 of the Scot founders of the City of Sarasota / by Sister Cities Association of Sarasota
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Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic / Dallas Dort founded Sarasota's first Sister City with a Sarasota-Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic twinning in 1963. Santo Domingo was given emeritus status in 2002, and today they enjoy a fruitful Sister City relationship with Miami and New York City. / by Sister Cities Association of Sarasota
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Alliance Members
Alliance Members / Alliance members are an essential part of Sister Cities Association of Sarasota programs and exchanges. Alliance members provide a committed champion to support our core member volunteers to ensure exchanges are not dependent on dedication of a single individual. Alliance members provide the bedrock for sustainable relationships with our twinned cities. Alliance memberships are based on signed agreements which have been approved by the Sister Cities Association of Sarasota Executive Board. / by Sister Cities Association of Sarasota
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Luncheon Events
Luncheon Events / Sister Cities Association of Sarasota holds monthly luncheons at SaraBay Country Club , normally from October to May each "season" that focus on our twinned relationships and citizen diplomacy initiatives / by Sister Cities Association of Sarasota
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International Sustainability & Aquaculture Conference
International Sustainability & Aquaculture Conference / A 3-day conference that featured 21 experts (including six Sarasota's Sister Cities from China, France, Israel, Italy, Mexico & Scotland) at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee Selby Auditorium Nov. 13-15, 2013. View details & presentations at: http://sustainablesarasota.us / by Sister Cities Association of Sarasota
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Past Meet & Greets
Past Meet & Greets / by Sister Cities Association of Sarasota
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Young Playwrights Festival
Young Playwrights Festival / Each year young playwrights through out the U.S. and three of Sarasota's Sister Cities world submit plays to Florida Studio Theatre, an Alliance member with Sarasota Sister Cities. Participating Sister Cities are Dunfermline, Scotland; Tel Mond, Israel and Vladimir, Russia / by Sister Cities Association of Sarasota
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Sister Cities Conferences
Sister Cities Conferences / Collection of photographs from Sister Cities International and Florida Sister Cities State Conventions attended by Sarasota Sister City Delegations / by Sister Cities Association of Sarasota
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Treviso Signing Events 2007
Treviso Signing Events 2007 / A weeklong series of Treviso Week events were held in February 2007 culminating in the Sister Cities Agreement Signing by Sarasota Mayor Fredd Atkins and the President of Treviso Province Leonardo Muraro on February 29, 2007 on the stage of the Historic Asolo Theater at the John & Mabel Ringling Museum of Art / by Sister Cities Association of Sarasota
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Archive Events
Archive Events / by Sister Cities Association of Sarasota
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2012 One World Gala
2012 One World Gala / On March 24, 2012 Tennis great Nick Bollettieri became the second individual to be presented the Sarasota Sister Cities One World Award. ORT International became the first organization to be selected for a One World Award. Both were recognized for achievements emplifies the essence of the vision of President Eisenhower when he created citizen diplomacy programs to enhance world peace / by Sister Cities Association of Sarasota
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State Conference 2-4 May 2013
State Conference 2-4 May 2013 / http://sarasotasistercities.blogspot.com/2013/03/florida-sister-cities-conference-may-2.html / by Sister Cities Association of Sarasota
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Sarasota
Sarasota / Sarasota is a lovely Place / by Sister Cities Association of Sarasota
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