2. Upgrading Your Club Website
Your Club Website
Beth Stinson, DTM
Beth Stinson, DTM
3. Tonight’s Agenda
Welcome and House Keeping
Icebreaker
Club Website Best Practices
FreeToastHost 1.0 and 2.0
Cloud Resources
WordPress and GoogleSites
4. Thanks for being here!
Cell phones off please
Fill out paperwork to
get credit and make
TLI better
5. Ice Breaker
How many of you are club webmasters?
How many of you are using FTH?
How many of you have a Facebook page?
How many of you use Twitter?
How many of you have an embarrassing
technology story?
8. FreeToastHost 1.0 to FreeToastHost 2.0
Deadline February 17, 2012
Request a FTH 2.0 site to upgrade
Quick Start and Admin Guide
Watch the movie
Save all the files from your 1.0 site
9. Let’s Go Live to FTH 2.0
http://www.toastmastersclubs.org/welcome/
10. What Features Are Lost
No semi-annual dues invoicing
No email aliases
No member goals
No club goals
No forums
No reports
No FAQs
11. What Features Are Gained
Better security
TMI branding included
More modern look and feel
Adding images easier
File manager
Web analytics
Easier member management
Today’s session is about upgrading your club’s website. We are going to be talking a lot about FreeToastHost, but there are other best practices that apply to all club web resources, regardless of your website host. We are also going to talk about creating club cloud resources and social media resources.
PasswordsBackupEducating your usersTesting everything before you go live – copy editing, proofreadingCurrent info at Toastmasters InternationalCorrect informationNew contentGraphics and textBranding
Has anyone seen FTH 2.0? Anyone working in it yet?Highlight all the help resources.I am not going to provide set-by-step training for upgrading. We don’t have time today and this is not the right forum. Rather I want to show you around a little, show you help, and tell you what’s different.
Images:http://[yourprefix].freetoasthost.[ext]/images/Files:http://[yourprefix].freetoasthost.[ext]/files/Members files:http://[yourprefix].freetoasthost.[ext]/members/files/you can right click "Save As" it will go faster
Everything you want to do going forward from using Google Analytics to blogging, tweeting, saving club photos and linking to Facebook depends on this address.Write down the address and the password.
Picking your theme
If you want to get started right away, you can skip the option of creating your own template agenda, and use one of the several default agenda provided. Here is how this works:Virtually all clubs have their own agenda and way of running the meeting. But these template agenda make for a good starting point for most clubs. The idea is to select a template that most resembles your meeting, them modify/customize it from there. But when you create your own template, there is no modification needed each time you use your default agenda as the template.This can be very tricky. Follow all the instructions at FTH and go slowly. Alternatively, you can use a word doc that you save in the file manager. Essentially, this is a very clunky form builder. The key is to add the time to you first item and all the rest will follow.
Remember thatgmail account you made at the beginning? Well now you are ready to use it to create cloud resources and social media resources for your club. Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Google docs, Google sites and WordPress all use gmail to authenticate against. Once you have a gmail account, you can create and then log in to all these things!