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Is Your Club Website Up to the Task?
Jim Robison, DTM - Program Quality Director
Did you know that most guests use two Are there any issues with accessing your
sources to find and visit a Toastmasters club website?
meeting? These are the Find a Club tool at When you visit your club website,
toastmasters.org and the club's own website. does your browser bring up any error
Given this, what are some ways to make messages or warnings? If it does, that can
certain your club has an effective club website create barriers to visitors. A great tool to
to bring in guests and new members? use to check for website errors is George
Here are a few ideas for you to consider (by Marshall’s website checker. This tool can
the way, these are also criteria being used to identify if there are certain basic errors
evaluate club websites in the District 7 Club with the website availability.
Website Contest going on right now.)
Does your website use proper Toastmasters
Is your club website properly listed on branding?
toastmasters.org? To maintain a global product identity,
Do a test. Go to toastmasters.org, click it should be obvious to a visitor that your
on the big yellow FIND A CLUB button, if club website fits with the Toastmasters
you don’t immediately see your club listed, International look and feel. You should
then click on the plus sign (+) next to Search also ensure that when you reference
Options, type your club’s name into the material from Toastmasters International
box (be sure you use the way the club is that you provide links to the material,
named in Toastmasters records), click on instead of copying material that is available
Submit Search. If your club does not show elsewhere.
up, then recheck how you entered the club’s
name. If you cannot find your club with, Does a visitor learn about Toastmasters?
Find A Club, then a club officer will need Visitors to your club website want to learn
to complete the meeting information in whether Toastmasters will be able to help
Club Central. When you find your club, them reach their goals. They cannot
click the “Visit This Website link” to verify decide that if they cannot learn about
that it connects to your club website. Toastmasters. A good design will provide
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