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Back to School: Build your College Republican Chapter, Part II - Communication
By punch bowl | August 14, 2007
After you have recruited, the next two things on your radar should be establishing communications and moving forward with planning your first meeting.
Communications are important for two reasons. First, it makes new members feel like they are part of something. People join groups because they like being a part of something bigger then themselves - so help them feel that way by including them in emails and facebook messages. Second, communications are required to get people to come to meetings and participate in events. You have to let them know about meetings because new members won’t take the time to find out for themselves.
Developing communication strategies and methods can take a lot of work, but it is worth it if you want your chapter to succeed. Developing communications really only means taking the emails from your sign-up sheets and entering them into an email account with the addresses of existing members. This process is long and boring, but if you want people at meetings you have to do it.
Also, an effective way to communicate is facebook. Facebook wall posts can go a long way in communicating with people who simply don’t respond to emails. Often a combination of Facebook wall posts and emails will place your chapter on the fast-track to effective communications.
One last point on communications, and this is key. You communications must be kept to a minimum and each communication must be concise. If you send too many emails and messages and/or if your emails and messages are long, then members won’t look at them - and most likely they will, for all practical purposes, stop being members.
Tomorrow’s subject will be meetings. See ya then…
Happy communicating…
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