Social media is an easy, quick way to share updates across the Club.

Canada Bay Cannons operates this website (www.canadabaycannons.com.au) and has active Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts plus a regular newsletter.

As well as providing families in Canada Bay Cannons with information about what is happening at the Club, social media also provides a forum for engagement – between the Club and families but also with our junior clubs, Drummoyne Power and Concord Giants; other AFL Clubs and the wider AFL community, potential member families, sponsors, and the general community.

Why use social media?

Social media is a fabulous tool for local sports clubs. Many people in the community – including our members, sponsors and local community – use social media regularly. It is there 24/7. Even if people aren’t regular users of social media, the Club’s social media channels are open, allowing them access via a web browser (even without an account).

At Canada Bay Cannons we will use social media to:

• Promote activities, news and resources
• Reinforce the Club’s positive culture
• Acknowledge and engage with our valuable sponsors and volunteers
• Connect with potential members of Canada Bay Cannons
• Celebrate the achievements of our children and the Club
• Recruit players and volunteers
• Drive traffic to our website

A positive focus

Canada Bay Cannons is a volunteer organisation, which relies on the goodwill of its volunteers and member families. Our tone on all our social media channels will be overwhelmingly positive and our accounts will be actively reviewed to ensure content is appropriate and meets the guidelines provided in the AFL NSW/ACT statement on electronic communications.

We DO want to hear your constructive feedback but if you’ve got something negative to tell us, or you have a complaint please email us, rather than putting it on social media (that includes comments relating to other clubs).

Children and social media

The registration form includes a general consent allowing the Club to take photos of our players, members and sponsors for use in promoting the Club.  Most of our social media posts contain images of children. These must be appropriate, respectful and encouraging of children.

If you do not wish your child’s photo to appear on our channels for any reason, please let us know.

We will not publish images that include a child’s name or any other identifying information, without express consent of parents or carers.

Sometimes parent’s “tag” or identify their own children, and that is fine. However, as a Club, we will identify children only by an age group, eg: U13 Div 2.

Match reports published on our forums will identify children only by first name (and surname initial if required to distinguish from other children of the same name in the same team). We won’t directly attach names to images.

Occasionally, the Club will share published articles or posts that do contain a child’s name (for example if they are profiled in the local paper). In those instances, the Club will assume consent has been given as it is already in the public domain.

The Club’s annual year book and is an exception to this general policy and will include the names of children and their photos.

If parents or carers have any questions or concerns, they should contact the Club: news@canadabaycannons.com.au

Content

Social media relies on producing engaging content. While much of the information-based content (events, wet weather updates, notifications) will be driven by the Canada Bay Cannons Board, we need YOUR input.

Do you have news that will be of interest to the Club? Does a player or volunteer in your team deserve a shout-out? Let us know!

Photos

We’d love you to share your photos from training, game day and club or AFL events. For more information on how to do this, see our Cannons Photo Guide, which provides information on how to upload, as well as some photography tips. Our Photography Policy has information on how we’ll use and share your photos.