PsAZZ
Social Media
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Over the last year,
we have begun to
make some great
connections to other
groups and often write
about them in PsAZZ
News. However, the
geographical spread
of
new
people
wanting to join or
keep in touch with
PsAZZ activities, conversations
and the e-zine has also begun to
grow so we have needed to adapt to
accommodate demand..
Cue the internet. With many people
now easily accessing it via their
smartphones, tablets or computers
it was the obvious next step to take.
So, to begin with I set out to develop
our own simple website - a place on
the internet were we could be found
if someone were to type in ‘PsAZZ’ or
‘psoriatic arthritis support group‘ into
their browser. It would be somewhere
that would contain some basic
information and contact details about
the group that people could find no
matter where they were.
pictures of our awareness campaigns
and was generally not very flexible
for updates. Still, it gave us a virtual
presence and, more recently, I found
another free provider that has meant
being able to design a new, improved
website with better features (we
even have our own blog on it!) You
can find the new website here: www.
psazzgroup.wix.com/psazz
The next step was to get engaged
with social networking namely
Facebook
(www.facebook.com/
pages/Psazz/433368290108744
)
which gave us a platform on which we
thought we could share more regular
updates, pictures, announcements
and interesting links. We could even
have conversations or opinions too
and a couple of other group members
Being a voluntary group with no
funding meant I had to use a ‘free
web’ provider but it had its limitations
for things like file size allowances for
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