{"id":251,"date":"2010-08-29T20:35:35","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T01:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/?p=251"},"modified":"2010-09-01T12:03:20","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T17:03:20","slug":"the-importance-of-club-web-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/29\/the-importance-of-club-web-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"The importance of club web sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my experience, &#8220;open&#8221; clubs (ones open to anyone interested, no membership qualifications) live or die by a good web site.\u00a0 A community club lacking a good web site is missing out on guests who may become members.<\/p>\n<p>Clubs have the opportunity to list an official web site as part of their directory information with Toastmasters International.\u00a0 I validated those listings and for each district, produced a list of clubs where the published web site either doesn&#8217;t work, or (for open clubs) there&#8217;s no web site listed at all.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/reports.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/reports.html<\/a> (about halfway down) &#8212; pick your district, and see what clubs have web sites listed that don&#8217;t work, or almost as bad, open clubs that have no web site at all.\u00a0 Encourage those clubs to build a working web site, and I am certain that the guests will show up.<\/p>\n<p>What goes into a good club web site, and frequent updates, is a whole &#8216;nother issue to talk about another time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my experience, &#8220;open&#8221; clubs (ones open to anyone interested, no membership qualifications) live or die by a good web site.\u00a0 A community club lacking a good web site is missing out on guests who may become members. Clubs have the opportunity to list an official web site as part of their directory information with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[21,24,25,22,23],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-stuff","tag-club","tag-pr","tag-public-relations","tag-web","tag-websites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions\/253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}