SAVE THE FROGS! Facebook Group
An easy way for you to spread the word about the amphibian extincion crisis is to help us grow the SAVE THE FROGS! Facebook Group. Why do we want a large Facebook group? A large Facebook group means more people educated about the amphibian extinction crisis, a larger network of potential volunteers and donors, and more leverage when seeking corporate sponsors.
Please do your best to thoroughly go through each point listed below…it shouldn’t take more than half an hour. Thanks!
Join the group
Join the SAVE THE FROGS! Facebook group if you have not yet done so.
Need an easy way to remember its URL? You can use http://tinyurl.com/froggroup
Now invite all your friends to join the group:
On the right side of the group page, click “Invite people to join”. Then check all your friends. You’ll have an option to add a personal message. You can use this:
Hey, please join the group and then invite your friends...help us get 20,000 members by April 28th - Save The Frogs Day! http://savethefrogs.com/day
Repeat this every couple weeks to invite any recently added friends!
Use the SHARE button
Click the SHARE button on the right side of our group’s page.
Now enter a comment: “Please join the SAVE THE FROGS! Facebook Group and then invite your friends. Thanks!”
Then click “Post”. This will put a link to our group and a SAVE THE FROGS! logo up on your Wall, so lots of your friends will hear about (and join) the group.
Status Updates
At the top of your Facebook Profile’s Wall page, you can add status updates (in the box where it says “What's on your mind?”). These show up on all your friend’s pages, so they are a great way to advertise the group. This one works well:
Please join the SAVE THE FROGS! Facebook Group: http://tinyurl.com/froggroup
Or alternate with:
Save The Frogs Day is April 28th, 2009! http://savethefrogs.com/day
Or use:
Frogs are in the midst of a mass extinction crisis. Get involved! http://savethefrogs.com
Or help us raise money with:
SAVE THE FROGS! rubber wristbands available at http://savethefrogs.com/frog-store
Do this daily.
Posting on your friends' Walls
Now let’s go inform your friends AND their friends about our group. Go to one of your friend’s Facebook pages.
At the top of your friend’s Wall page, click in the Share window.
Add this: Please join the group then invite your friends!
A Link option will have appeared immediately below. In the Link window, add this link: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=37755766682&ref=ts
Now click Attach, then click Share.
Now find another friend and repeat! Now find another friend and repeat! Now find another friend and repeat!
You can do all this for our Save The Frogs Day event page as well, just use this link:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=73657532264 with the statement:
“Please attend Save The Frogs Day – April 28th, 2009”
Or use: SAVE THE FROGS! rubber wristbands available at http://savethefrogs.com/frog-store
Events
Go to all of our listed events and set your RSVP for each one to "Attending". Events our found on the right side of our group's page.
This puts a note on your Wall that your friends end up seeing, and some of them click through and attend as well, causing a chain reaction.
You should also invite your friends to each event (‘Invite People To Come’ is an option at the top right of each event’s page)/
Photos
Add SAVE THE FROGS! pictures to your Facebook photo collection. Lots of people look at these. Each will link to our group. Follow these steps:
(1) Find pictures at the URL’s listed below; plug each address into your browser.
(2) Right click on each photo and choose Save Picture As.
(3) Save pictures to your computer (you probably want to make a frog pics folder).
(4) Go to your Facebook profile
(5) Click the Photos button at the top
(6) Either create a new album or click on an existing album.
(7) Click ‘Add More Photos’
(8) Browse for the location of the frog pics, and checkmark each one.
(9) Click Upload
(10) Add this as the caption for each photo:
Please join the SAVE THE FROGS! Facebook Group:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=37755766682&ref=ts
If you are a member of other wildlife groups, you can (and should!) easily add these photos to the group’s page:
(1) Go to the group;
(2) verify the photos are not already there;
(3) click Add Photos;
(4) choose ‘Add from My Photos’;
(5) choose the correct folder;
(6) checkmark the frog photos and click ‘Add Selected Photos’. BAM! The caption you had written earlier is magically imported and viewers will click through and join our group.
Here are the URLs of the photos:
http://savethefrogs.com/spread-the-word/images/dendrobates-tinctorius-dyeing-poison-dart-frog.jpg
http://savethefrogs.com/spread-the-word/images/litoria-chloris-orange-eyed-treefrog.jpg
http://savethefrogs.com/spread-the-word/images/litoria-peronii-emerald-spotted-treefrog.jpg
http://savethefrogs.com/spread-the-word/images/nyctimistes-dayi-australian-lacelid.jpg
http://savethefrogs.com/spread-the-word/images/save-the-frogs-logo.jpg
http://savethefrogs.com/day/STF-Day-Icon-yellow.jpg
If you use Twitter, please follow us at http://twitter.com/savethefrogs
Every few days send out one of these tweets:
Please join the SAVE THE FROGS! Facebook Group: http://tinyurl.com/froggroup
Save The Frogs Day is April 28th, 2009: http://savethefrogs.com/day
Also, please re-tweet us by tweeting this:
RT: @savethefrogs followed by a condensed version of what we said (if the allowable characters don’t allow a full-length copy), along with the URL in question.
Your Email
A great way to spread the word is to add www.savethefrogs.com to the automated signature of every email you send. Just go to your mail options or settings and there should be a place to make an automated signature. Another good one is:
Save The Frogs Day - April 28th, 2009
www.savethefrogs.com/day
If you do this, thousands of people will hear about SAVE THE FROGS!, with virtually no effort on your part.
Blogs
Do you have a blog or do you know somebody with a blog? If so, please write a short paragraph on SAVE THE FROGS!. Here’s an example:
Save The Frogs Day – April 28th, 2009
http://savethefrogs.com/day
Frogs are the most threatened group of animals on the planet. Nearly one-third of the world’s 6,468 amphibian species are threatened with extinction, and at least 150 species have already completely disappeared. In an effort to raise awareness of the plight of amphibians, the scientific community has declared April 28th, 2009 the 1st Annual 'Save The Frogs Day'.
Please visit the SAVE THE FROGS! website to learn more, and be sure to join the Official SAVE THE FROGS! Facebook Group:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=37755766682&ref=ts
e 1st Annual 'Save The Frogs Day'.
Spread The Word Page
Now that you’ve done all the above, please have a look at:
http://savethefrogs.com/spread-the-word
where you can find lots of other ways to spread the word, such as cool flyers you can print out and post around your school or office.
Mailing List
Please be sure to sign up for the Official SAVE THE FROGS! Mailing List, as Facebook has been known to delete groups for no apparent reason, and we do not want to lose touch with you: http://savethefrogs.com/newsletters
Quick Reference
SAVE THE FROGS! Facebook Group: http://tinyurl.com/froggroup
Save The Frogs Day Facebook Event Page: http://tinyurl.com/frogday
1st Annual Frog Art Contest Facebook Event Page: http://tinyurl.com/frogart
1st Annual Frog Poetry Contest Facebook Event Page: http://tinyurl.com/frogpoetry
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