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= The high cost of conventional advertising and keeping in touch =

Teachers' Associations often find it difficult to advertise to a wider audience as printing and postage costs and advertising in magazines and newspapers are all getting more expensive every year.

The world wide web with its infinite possibilities for a strong presence which will retain your current membership as well as attract new members is an attractive proposition for most TAs.

There are many different ways which will allow you to be more visible, attract new members to your association and, at the same time, keep your existing members engaged.

In these pages, we are making a start by listing the main ones (at the time of writing), but new applications appear every day and it is possible that the tools we are listing today may be replaced by new ones.

This wiki allows the potential of changing and updating it to include all the new ways which we may have overlooked.

Whatever the means you select are going to be, we believe two things are important:
 * Organising interesting events and conferences
 * Including interesting and engaging content in anything you decide to publish

Updating frequently is also a must, and although this may be difficult for volunteers, it is quite important, so that you keep interest high and your colleagues visiting your pages and suggesting them to others.

Follow the links on the left hand menu or below to navigate to pages dedicated to

Website creation

Using Facebook

Using Twitter

Using Blogs