| Status: | Active, open to new members |
| Leader: | |
| Leader: | |
| When: | As Required |
| Venue: | Various |
| Cost: | Free |
Logins
- Website Login to log on and edit your page. Contact Frances Kilburn for help with training.
- Beacon Login to edit your details on u3a's admin system Beacon. There is no automatic connection between Beacon and this website. Do remember to edit your page on SiteWorks when you update the group in Beacon.
Your group pages
This website is publicly available on the Internet. It is our u3a's shop window. Your group can be seen by everyone including your members, others in the u3a, and by people who are interested in your topic but don’t know about u3a. It's therefore important that the information is kept up-to-date and interesting.
Group leaders should contact the Website Team to request updates. Also, group leaders or any group member can become a Website Editor and make the necessary changes. We can train you face-to-face or on Zoom.
Publicise your group
As well as the techniques we'll show you to improve your Group Page, why not share your group on our Facebook public group? This is a more visual shop window than we can achieve with the SiteWorks website. Anyone on Facebook can see what we do, especially the many who haven't joined u3a yet. There's also the private Evesham and District u3a Facebook group if you want to attract our members to your group.
Editing the u3a website
Watch the Siteworks Alpha overview video on YouTube to see a demonstration of editing our site on SiteWorks (a flavour of the WordPress platform);
The Siteworks team have put together a comprehensive user guide on the SiteWorks Web Site
Add more to your page:
- ensure there is a contact email on the page.
- SiteWorks has a Youtube block to make it easy to add a video to your page.
- add events, these will appear at the bottom of your page under the heading 'Forthcoming Events'. The event will automatically be removed when the date has passed.
- photos of your members being active add interest to your page. You MUST get members permission to put their photo online. What about photos of things related to your group's activity? The Website Team can help find images that do not infringe copyright.
- avoid having too much text on your group page by adding a Post (sub-page) to organise information about a particular meeting, trip, or competition.
Safeguarding
What you write on this page is visible to the whole internet, you must protect personal information like members' addresses and only include phone numbers if you have the members permission.