Listing K-12 Schools on FoundLocally.

FoundLocally provides the opportunity for schools at all levels to promote themselves,their news, and their events to parents, students, and their surrounding community. Here are tips and suggestions for how public and private schools can get the most out of the FoundLocally.com free listings.

While schools do not need to do web marketing in the traditional (commercial) sense, they want to ensure students, parents and community are involved with a key community assets. Stakeholders should be aware of school events, news and its contributions to the community, and be able to get more details form the school's own website. Get the highest online visibility for Public, private, elementary, middle and high schools using FoundLocally.com free listings.

FoundLocaly provides the opportunity for schools at all levels to promote themselves,their news, and their events to parents, students, and their surrounding community. Here are tips and suggestions for how public and private schools can get the most out of the FoundLocally.com free listings.

Schools are unique in that they not only need to use FoundLocally.com as an educational resource, but can use it to reach out their community, parents and other stakeholders. FoundLocally has long helped schools to promote themselves and their activities effectively and provided suggestions for using our site as a high quality educational resources. FoundLocally not only aggregate great community information (it you search on Google for local content, invariably you end up on FoundLocally, anyway), but do so for various communities across Canada, but provide a school-friendly, family-friendly environment free of tobacco, gambling and porn ads.

Since its earliest days, FoundLocally has recognized a symbiotic relations ship with schools and their students & teachers, and has provided free logos and links to help schools promote their various activities to their community.

Making the Most of Your PROFILE

  1. Use the Description field on their PROFILE page to showcase the school’s neighbourhood, size and grades in the student body, and name of principal and vice-principal.
  2. Use the Product/Brands field to showcase areas of and academic excellence as well as your top sports (and team/mascot name), Keep in mind the tight 250 character limit on what you say. Be very selective
  3. Post a link to your website and in the Contact field you can either post your e-mail address or link to your website’s Contact Us form, where you can protect yourselves from spam.
  4. In the Logo field, you can either post a logo of the school or a school photo. Logos & Images must fit inside a 250 pixel square. Any larger images will be resized by FoundLocally.
  5. Choose Areas in the pop-down list to designate the areas that most accurately describe your school’s location and catchment area.

Making the most of CATEGORIES

  • The most appropriate categories are in the Shopping – Education & Learning section
  • Do not choose Shopping-Sports, Shopping-Goods & Services, or Dining –Food & Beverage categories unless you have facilities open to the general public.
  • Public libraries can choose that category in the Shopping – Education & Learning section

Posting NEWS Announcements

  • Post news about accomplishments and awards to the NEWS tab. These are live right away (once your listing has been activated), and stay there as long as you want (the default is about 900 years!)..
  • Announcements stay posted until you take them down. On FoundLocally, news has a long shelf life. FoundLocally news is not thrown out or recycled the next day, like with a newspaper!
  • News postings can dramatically improve your findability by increasing the association of keywords in the news story with your web site and your name. In addition they can improve your creditability as an industry resource

Posting to EVENTS

  • You post open houses, parent-teacher days, professional development days, movie nights, sports games, fundraising events, etcetera  to the EVENTS tab

Posting JOBS to fill staffing needs

  • You can use the JOBS tab (and “Add New”) to post recruitments for either paid or volunteer staff. Volunteer positions are noted by choosing “Volunteer” from the “Type” pop-down list.
  • Any postings you are currently recruiting for should have the “Active” radio button selected. After positions are filled and/or after the festival is over, all positions should have the “Inactive” radio button selected. 
  • DO NOT DELETE positions at the end of the season/tournament, because you can re-used the postings next year, simply by changing the status back to “Active”, and updating the Posting Information details below.

TIP for school boards to get all schools on FoundLocally

We have great cloning tools which  can set up your schools and their registered contacts quickly from an Excel spreadsheet.There is not cost for this assistance.  Contact FoundLocally for the Excel template and an overview of the process, and our privacy policy.

Additional Opportunities

We have great  suggestions for school websites, and for using FoundLocally as an educational resource for each of the following communities:

Add Your School to the FoundLocally Directory

Add your school to the FoundLocally directory where you are located.

Don't forget to also post any News, Events, Jobs, and Savings to promote all aspects of your schoool and operations, (using the respective tabs in your listing).

Comments

There have been no comments made on this article. Why not be the first and add your own comment using the form below.

Leave a comment

Please complete the form below to submit a comment on this article. A valid email address is required to submit a comment though it will not be displayed on the site.ALL SUBMISSIONS ARE MODERATED: spam submissions will be trashed and blacklisted.

HTML has been disabled but if you wish to add any hyperlinks or text formatting you can use any of the following codes: [B]bold text[/B], [I]italic text[/I], [U]underlined text[/U], [S]strike through text[/S], [URL]http://www.yourlink.com[/URL], [URL=http//www.yourlink.com]your text[/URL]

Technorati Profile