Hi Everyone!

As per the committee’s decision, the club’s Facebook Group has been (nearly) wound-up.  Facebook Groups are designed to allow people with a common interest (that’d be us) to interact and collaborate with one another.  Whilst the idea was sound, the requirement of having to be ON Facebook seemed to keep the majority of members away from the group, leaving only a small contingent of members to do the interacting and collaborating.

Facebook is, however, a fantastic way to promote our cause to new (and probably younger) potentially interested parties, and it would be lax of us to not have a presence on a medium that’s capable of reaching so many people so easily.  As a result, ORARC now has a Facebook Page (as opposed to a group).  The Facebook Page, for all intents and purposes, will essentially mirror the content of the website and provide information on our hobby and our club to people who would otherwise never cross our paths.  No one can post things to our page – we explicitly control the contents.  The page also has a facility for interested parties to contact us should they have any queries, enquiries, etc.

You don’t need to have a Facebook account to view the page either (it’s public) so if you’d like to see what it looks like it’s right here.  It’s obviously a little sparse at the moment but new posts go up automatically in sync with the website, so it won’t take long before there’s a reasonable amount of content.

If you have a Facebook account, it would be appreciated if you could visit the site and give it a like and invite other interested parties (both within and outside of our club) to like it too.  It’s beneficial to our page and it would certainly be a good thing for other Amateurs on Facebook to be exposed to the articles we write and events we host here on the Mid North Coast.