Calling all groups and nonprofits
June 26th, 2008 by Sandee OshiroPretend you’re lying prone on a psychiatrist couch because I know your problem.
You’re part of a group or a nonprofit and you’ve got a Web site, but it isn’t working for you. The soccer club’s Christmas picture is getting mighty moldy and that message from your president is so last year.
It’s causing you extreme anxiety because you can’t reach your Web designer to post news in a timely fashion. Or he wants to charge you a bundle to update the pages. You visit the site, but you’re the only one.
Stop beating up on yourself. You’re afflicted with a condition that’s all too common called Web site drift. It comes on quite suddenly when your Web designer sets up your site, then sends you adrift.
Rather than relive past Web site memories that can only hurt your self-esteem, we’ve got an option for you to consider.
We’ve been running workshops for non-commercial groups and nonprofits to teach them how they can create their own simple Web page on our site to promote their news and events. They can blog, network with members and post photo galleries. This stuff is so easy, they can maintain all of this themselves.
And best of all, it’s free. How’s that in the age of gas prices that are so high they make your nose bleed?
One group that has taken us up on this offer is the 100th Infantry Battalion Veterans Association. Check out the page we helped them create but which they maintain themselves. Members or their families can keep up with up with events and news about veterans. They blog, leave messages and post photo galleries.
Other groups have also taking steps to build their own pages on our site. Once we get several in line, we’ll set up a central page for groups/nonprofits that will point users to the right place.
If you are intrigued by the possibility that you can get a grip on your Web drift, call me at 525-8063 or e-mail at soshiro@honoluluadvertiser.com.
We’ll rescue you from your lonely, castaway life.
Tags: Groups, nonprofits, Web pages, Web site
July 3rd, 2008 at 7:22 pm
Thanks Sandee for the mention of our website. We have had nothing but positive reponses from visitors to our site and are even having requests from members and friends asking us to post items for them. The timing was perfect since the 100th Infantry Battalion WWII veterans recently hosted an event at their Clubhouse for the soldiers of the new 100th/442nd National Guard who are going to be deploying to Kuwait thisFall. We are slowly but surely posting photos from that event to share with the soldiers and their families, especially individual photos of them receiving protective omamori (Japanese amulets). We are also planning to use our website to keep in touch with them while they are deployed.
The website has been a great way for us to keep in touch with veterans and their families who live on the Neighbor Islands and the Mainland. We are really getting kudos on the photo galleries since our print newsletter is in black and white so people love seeing the pictures in color.
Mahalo again for the help and support.
July 9th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Jayne, thanks for your great comments AND your terrific work on behalf of the 100th Infantry Battalion veterans.
For those who haven’t seen the group’s site, check out http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/100thInfBn and see if this option will work for your group. If it does, drop me a line. We want to get a critical mass of groups and nonprofits going so we can do more promotion of their pages.
Did we mention that it’s free?