Some-one has taken to the club website with a new broom.
The old photo of GNM beating up the crowd at the airshow 3 years ago has gone...excellent.
The club minutes are loaded...for reference.
A couple of new photos...always good for interest.
Some one has written an outstanding and helpful article on your first trial flight...what a chap he must be...give him a pass from being on the roster forever...
Keep it coming...
These days I believe a club website is the front window to whole shooting match.
The public "google" it to find out where the nearest club is and how to get there, what aircraft we have, the procedures, the costs and who the people are.
Just try going to the website of a club you know and see how it grabs you...I went to Darling Downs Gliding Club (sorry guys..I needed an example) a number of years back. For a long time the club site was dated, unchanging and the news was so old you wondered if gliding only happened once a year...did that inspire me to go back??? You bet it didn't... Then some-one has updated things...much better. Does that inspire me now??? Well not really cos I'd rather go somewhere new...but you get the picture.
Or go to the GlideOmarama site...similar story. No changes for 4 months...
Piako has some-one writing a "blog-type" entry each weekend about the flying, club issues and individual peoples achievements. I don't know hardly any of the people mentioned but its fresh and interesting.
Sure...we are all volunteers and a good website requires an enthusiast but the old days of newspaper adverts, signage, and hoping trial flighters will convert to members are over.
Go and troll through any number of others sport clubs websites (I know you won't) and ask yourself...what grabs you? What can we learn from this???
So well done whoever you are in Tauranga...
Oh and tomorrow might see the return of that weather phenomenon called wave...probably better in the morning...
The weekend looks like crap so I'll go over to Piako for the early season briefing...I have 2 spare seats in the big blue bus.
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