Power up your website w/ widgets, flash, etc.

There are a lot of great ways to enhance your club's website with already existing content from the internet...

I thought I would start this thread to encourage folks to share their favorite widgets, flash, external web content (e.g., great pages to link to), iframes, Google Docs, Google features, etc.

For my club, we are incorporating the following great "external content":

1. A Word of the Day Widget
2. A Quote of the Day Widget
3. The Official Welcome to Toastmasters YouTube video via an embedded YouTube player
4. We use a Google Voice phone number as our official club phone number and show this number on our website
5. We link to the webpage for Toastmasters Magazine --it is free to view past issues, a great resource for visitors
6. We have reproduced the Toastmasters progress charts as Google Docs files that we link to in our Members Only Area so that the are readily available for our members

I would like to hear from others what is your favorite "external content" that you are making use of on your club's website... (If I steal your idea for my club's website, it just means I am impressed by your idea. )

Steve,

Thanks for the post. There is a similar thread here: support.toastmastersclubs.org/forum/6-ti...ite-for-your-members

I use many of the the links you are using. I added in the Word of the Day widget to our Role Reminders page for the Grammarian.

Additionally, we use the professionally made Toastmasters International Youtube Videos on our home page to give it a little extra.

We also posted a FAQ for visitors and prospective members. I wish I could find a better way but, for now I just use anchors in the text so that people can skip to the part of the page that they want to read and then skip back.

We also have a Helpful Links page with links to just about every document on Toastmasters.org, like educational achievement applications, certain articles, etc... The only thing that we do not currently link to is the Member Application. We decided that we really wanted people to come and visit at least once before deciding to join.

Similar to the FAQ, we also put up a Roles Reminders page that has customized Role descriptions for our club (because every club is a little different). It also includes link to print reports, and other resources.

We are in the process of putting a New Member Orientation page together. This will have a FAQ, videos, downloads and other information that are helpful for new members to the club.

One feature I would like to add is the Educational Achievements records. But it seems like you have to be logged into Toastmasters.org to get that information...

Hi robtuttle,
I really like the logon video on your Login Help for Members Page. Would you mind if I copied & used your page?

"Imitation is the sincerest of flattery" - Charles Caleb Colton

Regards,
Jackie

2346.toastmastersclubs.org/

Pearson,

Thanks for the compliment. You are welcome to use anything you can find. It is on our YouTube Channel at www.youtube.com/dunedintoastmasters

Thanks
Rob

Thank you!!! I'll be sure to give you guys credit

You are welcome. I think one of the first statements is "Welcome to this video Tutorial for the Donoghue-Dunedin Toastmasters website."

I made it with a free program called Microsoft Expression.Here is the script