'How IT Can Help Your Side' Part 1 of 2: Getting to Top of Google  Morris Federation Zoom workshop
Channel: The Morris Federation
Date: 2023-04-04

Morris Federation Zoom workshop on 'How IT Can Help Your Side' Part 1 of 2: Getting to Top of Google! Held on 15 Jan 2023

You probably want to recruit new dancers or musicians. Or you want event organisers to easily find details of your side. 

So if details of your side were to be found in the first few results for a Google query such as “looking for a mixed morris side in Dorset which welcomes new members” you’d be very happy. Especially if the first result included photographs and videos of your side.  

That problem has been solved – even if your side does not have a website (in brief: add appropriate words and upload photographs and videos to your Morris Federation’s Teamfinder service). 

And this approach can also be used so that your side’s hashtag leads to managed information about your side – for example, try a Google search for “#newcastlekingsmen” or “#wyldmorris” 

This is one example of the work being carried out by the Morris Federation to support their sides (and the wider Morris community) in exploiting online services. Other areas can be seen from the range of advisory documents published on the Morris Federation’s IT Resources area. 

We have also published a number of surveys of use of online services across the community, which can be helpful in identifying areas of best practice and areas in which improvements can be made. 

The “How Can IT Help Your Side?” Zoom workshop builds on this work, and provided an opportunity for you to identify areas in which you’d like to know more about – as well as areas in which you have expertise which you’d be willing to share. 

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Morris Fed website: https://www.morrisfed.org.uk/
Morris Fed workshop videos: https://www.morrisfed.org.uk/resources/videos/
Details of talk: https://www.morrisfed.org.uk/resources/videos/how-can-it-help-your-side/

Timecodes:
00:00 Introduction
01:22 Your interests
03:00 Context
03:48 IT Resources
04:58 Evidence: Pages indexed in Google
06:39 Evidence: Page Ranks
07:53 About Logarithmic Scales
08:56 Recap - and the implications
09:37 The Morris Federation website
11:19 Survey pages: Getting on the First Page of Google Results
13:29 What Should You Do?
18:59 Does It Really Work?
19:58 Next Steps