Social event communication

We are a relatively small HOA with 54 condos and about 75 actual residents. Our challenge is to communicate with residents on our internal social events without being a pest, or watering down our other information flow to our residents. We'd like to know if we are reaching our residents who desire communication on this subject. And, we'd of course like to not be ignored in the email avalanch we all deal with.

So has anybody sorted out a good way to communicate with social media in support of their HOA social events? I am thinking Facebook seems obvious but maybe add a Twitter feed too along with email? Do we really need to try and use instagram?

It sure seems like all these options in social media should give me a solution to, well, social event communication.

Any thoughts, ideas or experience would be helpful.

Thanks,

Mark

Tim,

Thanks for the info, in my previous board service we did it the same way. Maybe I am overthinking this but surely we have enough electronic tools to get us past all the labor and volunteer time that takes?

Do you have a community facebook account?

Mark

Some of us don't do, and have no intention to do, twitter and its ilk.

Email and the web are reasonable tools for communication. I suspect you know if you are sending out too many emails. Exercise self-control and people won't be upset about spam.

We use email for official communication, and one of our homeowners set up a Nextdoor.com community for our homeowners to join, and most have. Any member can make a post for all to read. I guess Facebook could work too, but I prefer to avoid it.

Since we're high rise condos, we post social events notices in the elevators and on the two mailroom bulletin boards. The events also are posted on the Home page of our web site.

Is there a space that all residents are likely to see where you could install a lockable bulletin board? These also are where we place notices of our board meetings, which is required in CA 72 hours in advance.

I guess this is a young person thing but Facebook seems to do a much better job of providing the tools for users to connect to an association and get updates, notices etc without having to keep up with email.

I dont have a facebook account but to me it seems perfect for HOA communication, IF everyone used it.

About 3/4 of the lots are represented (some lots have more than one person registered). It doesn't see too much activity, but every few weeks we get a flurry of posts.

All

I am sorry to say, we will never reach 100% of our people with anything other then the USPS so give up on any social/internet media doing it.

Is ay of you can reach 70% then then that is doing good. Forget the other 30% living in an alternative reality.