GreeniesWe have been investigating adding more social media links to the forums .We have started by making our existing forum social media channels available as links on the forum and creating an AW twitter feed . The next stage would involve a modification that will allow for sharing of topics by registered users onto their own social media platform for example sharing a topic link to Facebook .In aditon there would be a function to like a post . The main goal with this would be to keep up the interest in the forums as a means of sharing information and highlighting issues in conservation .It is without doubt the best way currently available to raise the AW profile ,to get more forum users participation and to have enough public participation for the issues that need to be tackled is to link to the popular social media platforms . A good example of the need for this is that our facebook group currently has over 2000 members while the forums have only 600 and only 175 of these have had any activity since January 2015 . Please remember that the forum is already on the world wide web so all the information and posts are already available to guests to see and read all posts on the forums.In addition we are often visited by google and Bing search engines who index the site and posts .
I am posting a poll to get the general feedback of the members to this change .
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AllWe have started a process of linking the Forums to social media accounts .As a start we have added links to the AW social media accounts these being our Face Book group , our YouTube Chanel and our new Twitter feed. We will be adding more functions to the forums to share topics and posts directly on your own social media accounts as well. We would appreciate any members that make use of these social media channels to add or follow us on these as well .
The twitter feed will mainly be used to promote news worthy events and new topic posts on the forums of special interest .
Twitter account is http://twitter.com/AfricaWildF
Face Book Group is http://www.facebook.com/groups/228623597183289/
YouTube is https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLBYKQ ... VbLo0jGPXg
We will be posting links and news on these forums .If any members have videos they would like to show on the YouTube channel please PM any of the Committee or Mods. If there is any twitter events or news you feel we should be participating in such as the Anti Poaching tweets last week viewtopic.php?f=197&t=64&start=280 please PM any of the Committee or Mods.
