Kiwanis Club Site Training

Club Site Channel on YouTube!

Module 0 – Site Security

Module 0 covers the following topics:

• How to build in cybersecurity to all content creation activities
• Protecting your members and organization from Phishing and Spear Phishing attacks
• Protecting your forms from hackers & spammers
• Protecting your blogs from spammers
• How to find the latest cybersecurity tips

Module 1 – Accessing the Site

Module 1 covers the following topics:

• Finding the user activation email in your inbox 
• Opening the user activation email 
• Saving username and password 
• Logging into the site
• Viewing the site dashboard

Module 2 – Adding Club Information

Module 2 covers the following topics:

• Editing club name
• Editing club charter date
• Editing social media links
• Editing tagline

Module 3 – Creating a Page

Module 3 covers the following topics:

• Creating your first page 
• Adding content to your page 
• Best practices for image content 
• Previewing your page
• Publishing your page
• Assigning your page to the main navigation menu
• Working with hierarchical menu items 

Module 4 – Search Engine Optimization

Module 4 covers the following topics:

• What is search engine optimization (SEO)?
• Search engine basics
• What are organic search results?
• Why SEO is important
• Getting started

Module 5 – Redirecting your Old Site URL to your New Site URL

Module 5 covers the following topics:

• What is page redirection/domain forwarding?
• What type of page redirection do we need?
• What are organic search results?
• Why SEO is important

Module 6 – Integrate Google Calendar

Module 6 covers the following topics:

• Getting a Google Calendar API key from Google
  
• Creating and/or linking club calendars in Google Calendar
• Setting up a calendar to be public in Google Calendar
• Finding the calendar id in Google Calendar
• Adding Google Calendar API key to the Simple Calendar settings section
• Adding a new calendar for your site
• Calendar time zone settings inside the Simple Calendar settings section
• Embedding calendar on the calendar page, or another page
• Adding a calendar to the calendar events slider widget

Module 7 – Integrate Facebook

Module 7 covers the following topics:

• Facebook Integration Requirements
• How to connect Facebook to your site

Pre-requisites

• Your personal Facebook account has admin access to your club or district Facebook page
• Review the plug-in documentation here

Generating a Facebook token for the FB feed you want to display

Add your Facebook page ID to the widget. Remove “kiwanis” and replace with your club/district Facebook page ID

Change the Copyright Date in the Footer