Smaller Groups-how can you make PNMs feel chosen?

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by cluelessUGAmom

Thanks!
There seems to be a webpage officer at each sorority but apparently they are not making it a priority to keep the site updated and current...plus all the girls need to turn in pix so the webmaster can post them I would think - so it really shouldn't be left up to just one person but rather a focus that the sorority as a whole participates in with adding ideas and getting the gpa standings and philanthropy happenings etc.!

Believe me, being the webmaster is not all fun. Particularly since, as you said, you spend most of your time bugging other people for pictures. As a webmaster, I could put any information up that people wanted, but I'm not the PR chair, and it shouldn't be my job to collect the information from each member. Oh well.

Realistically, a chapter probably doesn't need an internal, password protected website. That's what email lists are for.

[Fleur de Lis]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

Believe me, being the webmaster is not all fun. Particularly since, as you said, you spend most of your time bugging other people for pictures. As a webmaster, I could put any information up that people wanted, but I'm not the PR chair, and it shouldn't be my job to collect the information from each member. Oh well.

That's why I think the PR chair should be in charge of the website. Unfortunately, in my experience the website is set up by a member's boyfriend and then they graduate and no one knows how to update it.

Realistically, a chapter probably doesn't need an internal, password protected website. That's what email lists are for.

Or facebook groups nowadays. That's where PNMs get their information from, too.

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

Realistically, a chapter probably doesn't need an internal, password protected website. That's what email lists are for.

In the case I mention, the passwords were just for her to update and apparently it was too much from her perspective.

If it's only an external PR tool, then it doesn't have to get updated much but if the chapter tries to put a lot of information only of real interest to members, house menus, for example, which seem to be weirdly common, on it, then it's pretty obvious when they haven't been updated and it makes you wonder, hey, it they aren't really using this, why do they bother pretending?

[AOII Angel]

The chapters at UT-Knoxville have wonderful websites that wouldn't require frequent updates. Chapters could copy these for recruitment purposes and look really good!

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by Fleur de Lis

That's why I think the PR chair should be in charge of the website. Unfortunately, in my experience the website is set up by a member's boyfriend and then they graduate and no one knows how to update it.



Or facebook groups nowadays. That's where PNMs get their information from, too.

Unfortunately, the PR person rarely has the ability to update the website :-/

Originally Posted by AlphaGamUGAAlum

In the case I mention, the passwords were just for her to update and apparently it was too much from her perspective.

If it's only an external PR tool, then it doesn't have to get updated much but if the chapter tries to put a lot of information only of real interest to members, house menus, for example, which seem to be weirdly common, on it, then it's pretty obvious when they haven't been updated and it makes you wonder, hey, it they aren't really using this, why do they bother pretending?

That's odd, you definitely want a password to update the site. That's something you want controlled. And I'd suspect house members know the menu and it's just another recruitment enticement.

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

Unfortunately, the PR person rarely has the ability to update the website :-/

That's odd, you definitely want a password to update the site. That's something you want controlled. And I'd suspect house members know the menu and it's just another recruitment enticement.

I think in this case, the person who had the responsibility just wasn't particularly skilled at the job. But she was honestly hampered by the complexity and frequency that password and login information was changed on the university site. They are much better off not being on the official university site, and that's something for chapters to consider. It also seems that some groups are linked into the national organization site and design in a way that could be limiting locally.

I agree that menu, etc, could be a recruitment tool, but when it's wildly out of date, it makes you wonder what was up with that?

I'd either set the site up to actually be used by members for timely information and actually keep it timely OR have the content basically be static with a cycle of annual replacement with this year's events: bid day, philanthropy, formal, social, sisterhood events, etc. It just looks bad when it's obvious that it's one thing trying to pretend to be the other.

[carnation]

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