The GOC website and club are getting more social - a place to connect and chat with other members, and make friends, as well as to enjoy outdoor activities with each other.  Here's how to take advantage of two new features now live in My GOC.

Update and complete your details in My profile and My Account in My GOC.

You can now share more about yourself, and your recent and upcoming events, and you can choose what to share with all members, with only your Friends or with no-one but the GOC Committee.

Sharing more about yourself with friends and other members can help you and them to better make connections and build friendships. Even if you choose to share more about yourself only with the GOC Committee, that will help us to better know our members and serve you better.  You can view your own profile page by clicking on the View Profile link at the bottom of My profile, and you can share as much or as little as you wish.

Introduce yourself in the new, all-members' discussion forum at Newbies & introductions.

You can initiate and join other conversations as well, in Forums, in My GOC, and via Group and Event pages.  Club Forums enable all club members to initiate and join conversations with each other, and Group and Event Forums offer the same to members of a group and to attendees of an event.  If you find a group or event does not yet have a discussion forum, you can message the Group Co-ordinator or Event leader to suggest they add one.

We hope that members will use these new website forums in preference to taking their conversations to WhatsApp, or other channels outside the website - so as not to exclude those who are not aware of them, or who are not ready to share their mobile number or email address or download and learn another app,  and so that the club can support members to use them well.

You can opt to be notified by email of new conversations in a Forum, or of new contributions to a conversation (a Topic).  These will appear in My GOC under Your Notified Forums and Your Notified Topics, alongside all the Group, Event and Club forums available to you. You can of course opt not to participate in forums at all, in which case you will not be affected by them.

If you are interested to help to moderate the forums, especially if you have experience of managing online communities, then please let me know or respond to the form at Governance and Committee. They will be more likely to work well for everyone if we are able to support members to use them well, and if we are quick to respond to any concerns around how they are used.

Please do message me with any questions or feedback, via my own newly expanded Profile page or by email to [email protected].

Martin