An online calendar has many benefits: members can quickly look up when and where an event occurs, visitors can find out when your club meets, and you have a historical record of what the club did. And now, we have a new option that makes it even easier to add a single event to the calendar.
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Welcome to our demo site for the Satori Wordpress website solution for Kiwanis clubs. We’ve been authorized licensees with Kiwanis International since 2003 and were the first to bring clubs an easy to use website solution. For sometime now, we’ve wanted to bring a high-quality solution to those clubs who have a very limited budget.
This package is incredibly flexible, yet comes preconfigured with the features most clubs want. You can set up your site in a very short amount of time and then ignore it or you can update it frequently with current news, photos and more. The choice is completely yours. This package comes preconfigured with the following pages: Home, About Us, Photos, Links. But, you can add more pages if you’d like. You get up to 10 MB of storage space and, because we optimize your photos for you as they’re being uploaded, that means you can add lots of photos. You could also upload a newsletter, handbook or other documents.
The features that are not included in this package are our Message Center (which allows members to communicate internally using a centralized member database), member database and member listing, extra storage space (our Standard and Small Club packages have no limits), our Opt-In features that let site visitors register for club events or our Scheduling module, which allows you to create staffing plans for service projects.
You must be a registered user in order to create a new blog. If you are a member of a club that uses our ContentManager product for its club website, or if you are a client of Satori Web Design, LLC, you are eligible for a free blog.
We’ve added several new features to our ContentManager websites recently. The most recent automatically creates a link to your club’s most recent newsletter on the Home page. The link will appear automatically whenever there is a newsletter that has a start date within the past 60 days. The link shows on the Home page in the News section.
Small Club Packages:
Small Club package clubs may also take advantage of this option. Previously, clubs using the Small Club package were only able to show a single newsletter. Newsletters were not archived on these smaller sites. Now, with this option, clubs using the Small Club package may upload newsletters with a unique file name and may show them on the most recent newsletter on the Home page automatically.
How It Works:
Log into Site Administration, click on News and Doc Admin. Then, click on the Upload a Newsletter under the Other Administration Links area and upload your newsletter. Be sure to give the file a unique file name and also be sure to name the document in the first field, i.e., October 10 Newsettter (or any other name you desire). Your newsletter must be less than 2mb and you must submit the form at the end of the process (just like any other Site Admin update). For detailed instructions on how to upload a newsletter, see our Help Forum topic on Uploading a Document or Newsletter.
At the beginning of each year there are several maintenance tasks that need to be performed to update officers and committee members and, of course, the calendar.
The following steps assume that the member database is current. If a member is not listed in your member database, you’ll need to add him/her. You may add new members by clicking on the Add a New Member button in Other Administration Links. Or, see our Help Forum topic Adding a New Member.
We provide free blogs for our clients. For Kiwanis clubs, this means that each of your members may have his/her own blog. Registering a blog is simple, just look for the “Register for a Free Blog” button in the Members Only Area. Once you’ve registered, our system will automatically send you a welcome email. The welcome email will provide you with a link to your blog’s Site Administration.
To complete your registration, do the following:
1. Click on the link in the email
2. Enter your user name and password that you use to access the Members Only Area
3. Click on the “Visit Site” button, which is located next to the blog title
Background
Online service project scheduling can make it much easier for members to sign up to help with a service project. Members who cannot attend a meeting can go online and, in a few seconds, register themselves to work an event. Using the online service project scheduling system also allows the event organizer, or any other member, to retrieve a copy of the schedule at any time.
Overview
Events are created in the Opt-in Features module. When an event is created or modified, you may create a new staffing plan or modify an existing one. Each staffing plan consists of at least one location, one shift and and one position.
If you are a client of Satori Web Design and do not already have your free blog, but would like to get one, click here.
Updating a blog can be a pain, it requires going online all the time, using the WYSIWYG text editor and, in general, making adjustments. Well, here’s a new way to handle this. Post from your desktop. What a novel concept! Use software that you’re familiar with, or at least are only mildly annoyed by to reduce the stress in your life. If you’ve signed up for a blog through Satori Web Design, LLC, you can follow these instructions to set up blogging from your desktop.
1) Go to your blog admin site and copy the URL (the address of the blog. This will be http://satoricontentmanager.net/wpmu/MYBLOGNAME. Replace MYBLOGNAME with the name of the folder where your blog is located. Be sure to use lowercase letters, not uppercase (as we’ve done here to make the folder name more obvious).
2) Go into Site Admin in your blog, click on “Settings” (this should put you on General Settings)
3) Click on “Writing” (This should put you on Writing Settings)
4) At the bottom of the page, check the checkbox to enable XML-RPC
5) Download a “web log client” (a program that makes publishing a blog possible). We’d suggest either BlogDesk (http://www.blogdesk.org/en/download.htm) or Post2Blog (http://bytescout.com/post2blog.html). You can try them both or either, since both are free.
6) Install your web log client by following the instructions. Check the email that you received when your blog was created for your blog ID and any other necessary information.
7) Happy blogging!
