Social networks and snow disruption

The snow and ice of the past two weeks has disrupted activity in our local area. One of my choirs has cancelled two rehearsals, another one and the third cancelled one and only had 50% attendance at the other. Fortunately there are no immediately imminent performances so time can be made up if necessary.

It has, however, given me time to address the problem that I talked about in my last blog , namely that of falling numbers. These days a lot of people use social networks so I have increased the choirs presence on social networks. I realise, of course, that it is not sufficient to create a presence on a site and hope that it will increase footfall. It is like all other forms of publicity in that you can only get out of it what you put in. The work has only just begun and I hope that current members of the choirs will eventually take some responsibility for maintaining the sites.

So, there are now pages and accounts for the Newstead Abbey Singers and Southwell Choral Society on Facebook and Google+. Lets see if they make any difference.

Newstead Abbey Singers Facebook     Google+   web site

Southwell Choral Society Facebook    Google+    web site