Hello from Dario

[Dario Western]

Hello all,

I'd like to introduce myself to this forum.  I've been a naturist since 1990, and I heard about this forum on the International Young Naturists forum.

I live in Brisbane in Australia and run several nudist groups on Yahoo!, Google and Facebook as well as forming a nudist social network website similar to Facebook except that you can post full nude imagery.

My interests including swimming, playing and writing music, netsurfing, massage, hiking, going to nudist clubs and beaches and meeting new people.

[Davie]

Welcome aboard. Enjoy the site, you'll find us a friendly bunch

Davie 

[jbeegoode]

Hello, from Arizona.
What are the links to your sites? I'm curious.
Do any of these provide for anonymity. but still get the information and discussion out there? I'm thinking of setting up a network of naturists to protect Redington Pass. Alert, coordinate and news.
Jbee

[Dario Western]

Hi,

Here are the links to my main sites:

Nudism: https://www.facebook.com/groups/nuddism
Naturism: https://www.facebook.com/groups/natureism

Yahoo!

http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/n-udism
http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/naturist2

[nuduke]

Welcome Dario from me too!
At last!  An Australian member of FRN.  You are terrifically welcome

John

[Dario Western]

I've now got a website for my Brisbane Naturists community, which is a work in progress.  Would love some feedback on it:

https://www.brisbanenaturists.com

[nuduke]

Hi Dario,
Had a quick look at the website.  Green!  My favourite colour!
Congratulations on getting it up and out there -  that's always a challenge in my experience and coming up with the content is hard work.
I think my main comment is that it needs more 'life'.  There is a summary of the Brisbane group activity and ethos but no indication of it's activity over time.  You need a blog page where you publish short accounts of your meetings/events with a couple or 3 pictures each blog.  JMF's reports are a good example although you don't need to make them anything like as comprehensive.  I would also say that for the website to fully reach it's potential, it needs to be interesting principally to the members it refers to and serves.  What content would make them visit it and use it?  If you are on all of the social media types shown at the bottom of the page, my guess is that the majority of social interaction between your members is done on one or two of those media and so a website may turn out to be a bit secondary to the Brisbane group, other than as a repository of static information such as the rule book and and album of event reports.  Maybe do less social media and have a forum on the website?
There are glitches: I came across several dud links on the links page and the guestbook page returns an error : "The system has failed to log you in."
Hope that's a few useful observations.  Keep up the good work!
John

[Dario Western]

Hi John,

Thanks for the constructive criticism, it's much appreciated and I am always learning from it.

Yes, I agree with you that the site needs updating as well as a new guestbook.  I will fix the broken links on the pages and put up a blog page in due course.
 
The group's actual real life meetups have been small and few and far between, and I think that I need a few women to help run the website and represent the group.  At the moment it's pretty much a one man operation and for a community group to be successful it needs a solid team to make it work.

Dario