An attractive and informative website will help your branch keep members up to date on news and events. It will also help attract new members of all ages. Here are some online resources from AAUW and other sources to help you effectively use the Web and social media.

Other website and social media help available online

• AAUW has a new Web template for states and branches. Find out more about AAUW website resources for states and branches. The link at the left will take you to a site that shows you some of what AAUW offers using the WordPress platform. Along with other information, you will find WordPress  Tutorials and an FAQ. For more information, email site-resources@aauw.org or call 800/326-AAUW (2289). Read more.
• Social media, the Web and your branch: Handouts from Leadership Workshop 2011: These include a slide show on “Demystifying Social Media” from AAUW Convention 2011, along with Facebook manuals and links to helpful articles and websites.
• How to create a free website for your branch using WordPress: This is a step-by-step guide to setting up a free website for your branch using wordpress.com. This material was presented at a breakout session at our Leadership Workshop 2010.
  • Recommended text to include on your AAUW branch website
  • Recommended links to include on your AAUW branch website
  • Graphics to include on your AAUW Ohio branch website
• Learn WordPress: A website that tells you how to put up a WordPress site from start to finish. Includes video tutorials.
• Tips for New WordPress Bloggers: A collection of blogs posts to help you get started.
• Web site key information document: A listing of the information you should put together in one brief document to hand on to future managers of your branch webpage.
• AAUW Tools for Web Site Development: A comparison of platforms for setting up a website,complete with links to free software. Also contains links to content and graphics that should be included on your branch site. Includes links to RSS feeds and AAUW on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. In this handout, you will read about WordPress, which offers free blogging software. Read this t0 understand the differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org.
• “AAUW Web Site Tools: What Every Leader Needs to Know”: An AAUW workshop at the June 2009 AAUW Convention, “Breaking Through Barriers.”
• AAUW Web Site Wiki Page: A Web site about websites written by AAUW members.
• Web Site Roundtable Handout: An overview of Web site tools and how to use them presented at the 2009 AAUW Convention.
• Using WordPress to build a branch website:  A brief overview of how to use this user-friendly, free platform to build a branch site. This is the software we used to build the AAUW Ohio site. Here’s an example of another AAUW branch site built using WordPress.
• Basics of Facebook: An informational handout from the 2009 AAUW Convention.
• Facebook for AAUW: This document is an introduction and a primer for those who want to explore Facebook as an example of social networking for personal use and to advance the mission of AAUW.
• Join Us on Facebook and Maintain Your Privacy Too:  Find out how to become a fan of AAUW Ohio on Facebook. Then get the details about how select the privacy settings for your Facebook page to keep it as private as you like.
• Safety with Social Media: Important information from Women’sLaw.org.
• How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live: June 25, 2009, Time magazine article shared at the 2009 AAUW Convention.
• How to Start Tweeting (and Why You Might Want To): Aug. 25, 2010, Chronicle of Higher Education
• Tech ToolKit: What AAUW members need to know to function in our technological world.