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Lodge Websites and Social Media

Benjamin Baxter

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Are there any tips on what to incorporate into a lodge website? What to post on face book?


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Glen Rose Lodge No. 525 A.F.&A.M.- Junior Deacon
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SteveR

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Having just moved and looking at many different lodge sites, and I can tell you from my point of view. Keep It Simple. Brothers or outsiders perusing your site or Facebook want to know three things, in my opinion. 1. The time of your stated meetings. This should be on your front page, brethren. Don't make someone go searching for it. 2. Your physical address. This should also be on your front page. 3. Your secretary's email address and possibly a phone number to call.

Anyway, take it for what it's worth, but that's the opinion of someone looking into finding a new blue lodge home. BTW, in my opinion, the best laid out website I've seen is a lodge in OK. http://lodgeveritas.org/index.html It's simple, effective and says what they need to say in 4 different headers. Granted, it's a T.O. Lodge and they have a slightly different style, but I bet a lodge could call those brothers and they would gladly tell you where they got the template they use.
 
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relapse98

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On ours, we have http://www.nbmasoniclodge1109.org/, we have a few tabs at the top. One is a drop down with a list of our Past Masters, list of Golden Trowel recipients, picture and list of current officers, list of our Community Builder recipients, a decent explanation of the Lamar Award, old copies of our newsletter, pictures of the new lodge building and a poorly maintained section of pictures of old events that I just need to spend some time on. That's sort of my catchall tab where its not really stuff you need to know but its good historical information. We have a tab that has a link to the Grand Lodge and a 'What is Freemasonry?' page. We have a calendar tab so you can see what we are doing on a given night going out as far in the future as I've added events for. We have a contact form Where you can send us some email and it has a Google map to the lodge building. We have an upcoming events tab to add future events that have flyers, like our BBQ, and what not. We have a donations tab so that brothers can pay their dues, donate to the Stewards' fund, donate to our building fund or buy a lodge shirt (that's all through paypal and we also can now take credit cards at the lodge) and finally we have a link to our Facebook page. On the webpage I have an alert that shows up on every page that shows a bit about our next upcoming meeting and at the bottom of every page we have when our meetings our, our address and phone number. Usually on our Facebook page I just post a little bit about our next upcoming event.

It sounds a lot more cluttered than it really is. I think its organized fairly decently and I'm always looking for pointed to make it more user friendly and provide more information.
 

dfreybur

Premium Member
Having just moved and looking at many different lodge sites, and I can tell you from my point of view. Keep It Simple. Brothers or outsiders perusing your site or Facebook want to know three things, in my opinion. 1. The time of your stated meetings. This should be on your front page, brethren. Don't make someone go searching for it. 2. Your physical address. This should also be on your front page. 3. Your secretary's email address and possibly a phone number to call.

Anyway, take it for what it's worth, but that's the opinion of someone looking into finding a new blue lodge home. BTW, in my opinion, the best laid out website I've seen is a lodge in OK. http://lodgeveritas.org/index.html It's simple, effective and says what they need to say in 4 different headers. Granted, it's a T.O. Lodge and they have a slightly different style, but I bet a lodge could call those brothers and they would gladly tell you where they got the template they use.

Strangely their front page has none of the items you requested. Their front page is a picture with menu selections. I'd skip on past such a site for exactly the reasons you mentioned in your first paragraph. Not interested in telling me when and where? Okay, next lodge's web site. Of course when it's time to actually affiliate I will have visited more than one local lodge and may well have visited them so first impressions aren't cast in concrete.
 

SteveR

Registered User
Yes, it doesn't have any of the things I listed, hence why I stated they have a different style. The layout and simplicity was what I was trying to get across...gotta take the whole statement into context.

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crono782

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I'm thinking of trying to do some reposting/sharing of interesting masonic articles w/ my lodge FB page. Some probably from here, some from other outlets. At least to generate initial interest. I post congrats when members advance in degrees and upcoming events. That's about all currently.
 

JJones

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I think it looks great brother. I use Weebly for our website as well and find that it works well for our needs. :)
 

Benjamin Baxter

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I'm thinking of trying to do some reposting/sharing of interesting masonic articles w/ my lodge FB page. Some probably from here, some from other outlets. At least to generate initial interest. I post congrats when members advance in degrees and upcoming events. That's about all currently.

That is a great idea. I may borrow it if you dont mind.

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