Couple of items from Committee Meeting

1) There has been a lot of discussion about the best way to increase club membership. Presently we have the web site and this blog as the main portals for advertising what we are about.
The following points come from a meeting held last month and discussed further at committee meeting earlier this week:

• Placing notices and writing articles may be ways of increasing membership but are likely to have limited impact
• There are many people searching for clubs, and this is done through the internet
• Our website provides a great landing pad for those that search the internet. Could we increase the chance of them find us amongst all the other clubs? How do we make our USP heard?
• Do we need to “tag” / “link” the club and create more connections so that search engines and social media find us more readily?
• The obvious (but not necessarily right) medium was Facebook. It was agreed that if we were to use this tool, it would be an open/public page that we hope will draw interested parties to our website and our blog, i.e. effectively a portal to the two separate mediums currently used (web site and blog). Club member activity would continue to be coordinated through our blog and our website.

The committee has come to the opinion that it's probably time the club has a presence on Facebook. It is intended that this would purely be an external page to advertise the club (i.e. informative rather than consultative) and is no way intended to replace the blog - rather it would point to the blog.
If there is there anyone out there who would be willing to take this on can they please get in touch with me or one of the other committee members.

2) There are a couple of changes to the make up of the committee due to the resignation of Rob for health reasons. Cecilia Fry has been co-opted onto the committee and is going to take over the treasurer's role from John R and John will take over as secretary. Special thanks are due to Rob for all the effort he has put into the club over the last couple of years and he will hopefully be back cycling with us soon.

Many thanks,
Bill