Tip of the Week!

Ever since the official release of Version 3.0, we've shared a number of tips and tricks on how you can customize your website to your liking. With more and more clubs becoming more active on social media and creating their own Facebook pages, we're often asked how you can integrate the two, and with Version 3.0, you can! While the built-in Social Share toolbar and the Facebook Like Button allows you to share the content on your website on your social channels, by adding plug-ins such as the Facebook Page plug-in to your website, you also have the ability to share news from your Facebook Page on your own website.

Facebook offers several different plug-ins that allow you to feature your Page on your website - a great way to showcase your group developments and activities to the general public. Note that these plug-ins only work for Pages and not for personal Facebook profiles. To learn more about how to create a Facebook page, please click here.

To place the Page Plug-in on your site, you'll first need to grab the embed code from Facebook. Whether you want to display the photos of those that like your page, your posts, just your cover photo, etc., you can define all the attributes before generating your embed code. You can learn more about how to get this by following the directions here. Once you have this, simply paste this code into a custom widget within the Website Designer - it's that simple! You can find step-by-step directions on how this can be done on our knowledgebase.

We'll feature how you can do this with various social media outlets including Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and more in our next few entries. Have tips and tricks of your own? Share them with us by commenting below.

Tip of the Week: Bulletin Greeting

Did you know that you can customize the email greeting message that appears on your bulletin for your various recipient lists? 

Whether you are sending your bulletin to members, prospective members, club sponsors, event attendees, or anybody else that makes up your recipient list, you can customize the greeting message that is displayed on top of your bulletin to relate to your audience. With mail merge tags, you can also customize your greeting by including options such as sender related information such as name, club name or recipient related information such as recipient name, nick name, spouse name, club name and much more.

To create a custom bulletin greeting for each recipient group, you first have to ensure that you have created different "bulletin groups" for these lists. A Bulletin Group is a way for you to create and track the different sets of recipients that will receive your bulletin (ex: members, prospective members, etc.). Once you have created your groups, you can design your own custom bulletin for each as well with a different look and feel as well as content. To learn more about how to create Bulletin Groups, refer to the following help article on our knowledgebase.

Within each group, you can then customize your greeting message so that is always relevant to the recipient. To do so, navigate to your Bulletin Group page and simply add your message within the email greeting editor. Great for reminding your readers about an upcoming deadline, informing them about events. meeting related news and more!

For more helpful hints on Bulletin Designer 3.0, check out our knowledgebase.

Tip of the Week: Volunteers

Did you know that you can now make a copy of a Volunteers sign up list for future events?

You asked for it, and we delivered! Within the Volunteers 3.0 module, you now have the ability to duplicate a Signup list rather than creating it from scratch again.

All the information within the list except the assigned volunteers are copied to your new list - which means, your defined groups, tasks, dates, time slots and settings are all carried over! You then have the ability to edit the Signup list details from the edit screen to name your new list, define the start and end dates, link a Signup List Chair, etc. To duplicate, simply click on 'Copy' link under the Actions column on the Signup Lists page. Your new list will then appear on the main Signup Lists page.

There are still lots of updates coming your way! Please continue to send us your suggestions and feedback by emailing us at feedback@clubrunner.ca.