Overview

The Club’s Facebook Administrator is responsible for receiving, reviewing and publishing contributions from Club members, and other relevant parties, on the Club’s official Facebook page. 

As this function is not a Committee Position the Club’s Facebook Administrator does not need to attend any Committee meetings.

The Administrator is asked to post contributions, monitor comments and respond to requests (or refer them back to the contributor for information/clarification), when convenient.

Posts to the CBC Facebook page are not only viewed by Club members, but by the public, and generate a significant amount of interest and likes. The Club is finding it is also a good source of new memberships.

Posting Guidelines and Protocols

Contributions to the Club’s Facebook page should:

  • be brief; i.e. no more than approximately two paragraphs of text.  Anything longer is, in effect, a trip report and is better handled as a short article for inclusion in the Club’s quarterly ‘it’ magazine,
  • be relevant; i.e. related to the Club’s main activities – such as bushwalking, canyoning, caving, conservation activities, skiing, cycling, geocaching and social functions (e.g. the annual bbq),
  • be clear; i.e. not contain spelling, grammatical or punctuation errors,
  • be appealing without embellishing the truth,
  • not include more than 5-7 photos that have been selected by the contributor,
  • ensure that all photos acknowledge the photographer, where known, and include a short single-sentence description,
  • refer to adults in text and photos generally only by their first name and the initial of their last name eg ‘Bronwyn K led a group of bushwalkers to Mount Domain on Saturday’,
  • not include text or photos that may enable the identification of culturally sensitive sites,
  • not include text or photos that may lead to damage from too much human foot traffic,
  • not include photos of children unless prior permission has been obtained from the relevant parents/guardians. Note that it is the responsibility of the party submitting the material to the Facebook Administrator to gain this permission.
  • Whilst permission is not legally required to post photos of adults taken in public places, the party submitting material to the Facebook Administrator must seek permission from Club members before submitting their photos or using their names.