Monday, February 9, 2015

About this blog



The Iroquois Trail Council is launching this blog as a supplement and compliment to our website and Facebook page.

There are three primary reasons behind the launch of this blog…


Communication

Our scouts, scouting families, potential scouting families and our communities should always be kept in the loop about what’s happening in the Council, whether it’s at the unit level, district level, council level, or at one of our camps. This tool, like our website and Facebook, allows us to spread the good word of Scouting…keeping our scouts engaged and hopefully attracting more boys to our awesome program.     

Access

A lot of scouts and scouters don’t have Facebook accounts, so this blog will regularly allow them to see what everyone else has seen on our Facebook for the past year – daily snippets of news, events, and thoughts about Scouting locally and nationally.  

Content

The way that Facebook is laid out and utilized by its subscribers doesn’t allow for longer, free-form, information-packed posts. People go to Facebook for brevity. So, longer posts will be published here and we will share only the link and a teaser on our Facebook page.


If you are organizing a district or council event, or want to share news about your unit or a scout, please feel free to send your article to Bob Confer at bob@conferplastics.com and he will post them here.

Please check this blog daily, Monday – Friday, for updates about Scouting in the Iroquois Trail Council.