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Creating a Dynamic Chapter Website: Leveraging the Internet to Benefit Your Chapter
• Promoting Your Program
• Developing Student Skills
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Tech Services: Web & GIS
Web focus on data & dynamic sites
Function before form
Usability is key
Mainly ag clients, now branching out
Quentin Rund
PAQ Interactivewww.paqinteractive.com
(217) 762-7955
Central Illinois farm boy
Too many older brothers
Peace Corps, Tunisia
Started PAQ fulltime in 1997
Building Websitespromoting your programdeveloping student skills
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Creating a Dynamic Chapter Website: Leveraging the Internet to Benefit Your Chapter
Workshop Outline
• Benefits of Ag Program Website
• Website Development, What’s Involved
• Building Student Skills
• Getting Started, Resources
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Benefits of an Ag Program Website
• Community outreach
• Recognize student achievement
• Boost recruitment
• Save time
• Enhance fundraising
• Get with the times
• Build student skills
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Web Development, What’s Involved
• Defining the purpose
• Identifying the audience
• Determining Content
• Planning Creation and Maintenance
• Assigning Responsibility
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Defining the Purpose
• Promotion of activities
• Communicate with alumni
• Recognize achievement
• Recruitment
• Service to community
• Fund raising
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Identifying the Audience
• Primary– Members– Students– Potential members
• Secondary– Parents– Community– Administration
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Determining Content
• What do other chapters do
• What are my audience’s interests
• How often will it change
• Who will be responsible
• Timeline and goals for Content Management
• Program of Activities
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Planning Creation and Maintenance
• Organizing content (information architecture)
• Timeline for creation
• Schedule for maintenance– Use program of activities as a guide
• Hold a design contest
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Assigning Responsibility
• Make it a team effort
• Allow members to pursue interests
• Set and enforce deadlines
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Building Student Skills
• Builds Communication Skills
• Builds Thinking/Analysis Skills
• Builds Life-long Learning Skills
• Community Outreach
• Applied Learning
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Building Student Math Skills
• Layout and design• Resizing images• Budgeting time and resources• Profitability – do we have enough
sponsors to sustain production• Web statistics
– Analysis– Stats– Decision making
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Think, Learn, Communicate• Thinking
– Planning– Delegation– Teamwork– Decision making
• Learning– Finding solutions for what you want to do– Implementing ideas from other sites– Learn how to find answers
• Communicating– Writing– Marketing– Interviewing– Speaking (podcasts)
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Getting Started
• www.ffachapter.net
• Facebook.com
• MySpace.com
• Let your kids get you started
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Officer Pages
• Officer Teams• Individual Officers• Writing• Photography• Interviewing• Speaking• Great opportunity for freshmen to interview
more experienced members
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Home Page Items
• Short bursts of information– Link to more content
• Update regularly
• Promote upcoming activities
• Recognize achievements
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Awards
• Recognize achievement at the chapter and individual level
• Build a history of winners
• Good activity for Reporters
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Events
• Post chapter events• List CDEs• Provide convention
information• Promote chapter
banquets• Include fundraising
activities• Post deadlines for
signup
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Photo Gallery
• Promote the fun• Reward good work• Record chapter
activities• Photo contest• Spark creativity
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Alumni / Advisory Council
• Recognize involvement
• Show appreciation• Keep community
active in chapter
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About Our Chapter
• Give some history
• Provide current stats
• Promote annual activities
• Suggest how to get involved
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Forms / Docs
• Make it easy to find forms
• Parents appreciate this
• Link to docs from other places in site
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eNewsletter
• Excellent communications tool
• Cuts publication costs
• Add color – nothing extra
• Allows more regular publication
• Provide opt-in service
• Tips: short, to the point, tighten writing skills
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Sponsors
• Sell sponsorship
• Sponsor certain parts of the site
• Newsletter sponsors by month
• Calendar sponsors – now online
• Link backs
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Other Content Areas
• Committees
• About FFA
• Annual Report
• Classes Offered
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Fundraising
• Online Store
• Market ChapterGoods & Services
• Greater exposure
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What Else?
• FFA jacket order form
• Alumni spotlight
• Ag program website
• Online CDE tutorials