{"id":42199,"date":"2010-01-23T09:36:42","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T09:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/?p=5520"},"modified":"2010-01-23T09:36:42","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T09:36:42","slug":"membership-directories-could-include-social-media-urls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/social-media\/membership-directories-could-include-social-media-urls\/","title":{"rendered":"Membership directories could include social media URLs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2010\/01\/mmac-directory.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5521\" style=\"float: left;margin: 4px 10px\" title=\"mmac directory\" src=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2010\/01\/mmac-directory.jpg\" alt=\"Cober of mmac membershipp directory\" width=\"144\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a>If your organization publishes a membership directory,\u00a0allow members to include URLs for social media sites like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.Facebook.com\/publicitytips\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook Fan pages<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PublicityHound\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter profiles<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/publicityhound\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube channels<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/publicityhound\" target=\"_blank\">LinkedIn profiles<\/a>, not just URLs for their websites.<\/p>\n<p>That would be a nice value-added feature for chambers of commerce, convention and visitors bureaus, health care associations, school groups, etc. and it would\u00a0distinguish your group&#8217;s benefits from those of your competitors.<\/p>\n<p>I just received a copy of the 2010 Business Directory for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmac.org\" target=\"_blank\">Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce<\/a>. While glancing through the members&#8217; section, I noticed that all the companies, even mine, have only the URLs for their websites.<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t afford to let every member include social media URLs because of high printing costs? Then charge\u00a0a small additional fee.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Does your organization include these URLs in its membership directories? If not, why not? What other information do you include that members find valuable?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your organization publishes a membership directory,\u00a0allow members to include URLs for social media sites like Facebook Fan pages, Twitter profiles,\u00a0YouTube channels and LinkedIn profiles, not just URLs for their websites. That would be a nice value-added feature for chambers of commerce, convention and visitors bureaus, health care associations, school groups, etc. and it would\u00a0distinguish\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/social-media\/membership-directories-could-include-social-media-urls\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":7,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[638],"tags":[629,246,427,636],"class_list":{"0":"post-42199","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-social-media","7":"tag-advertising","8":"tag-chamber-of-commerce","9":"tag-marketing","10":"tag-online-media","11":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}