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PUBLIC EYE Angela Prince
Putting Our Best Face Forward: Is Your Chapter Using Facebook To Its Advantage? For USA Dance, Facebook has become an important communication vehicle for connecting to our members, friends and supporters. Our national organization now has several pages that we hope everyone will “join” or “follow” :
USA Dance Inc American Dancer Magazine USA Dance Competitions USA Dance National Dance Cruise USA Dance National DanceSport Championships All of our 174 chapters also have the opportunity to create an official Facebook page, working with Administrative Director Efrosyni Iosiphidis (also on Facebook) who will
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either jumpstart or guide the chapter Facebook page set-up (including all the security measures you’ll want in place). More than half of our chapters now have active pages – and many have gained great momentum and connection with their local community. Many of the volunteers at the national level are keeping up with our chapters as they post news and views about chapter events and activities, athlete achievement, community relations, all the great things their members are doing to support ballroom dancing and USA Dance. We often share your news on the national pages AND we get story ideas from your postings for American Dancer magazine.