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Social media and AANR

Social media and web 2.0 is has been a major marketing boon to the nudist world. Whether you are blogging, using twitter, facebook, myspace, nudist social media sites like skinbook, truenudists, or other social media sites, more people than ever are learning about nudist resorts.

My fellow nudist blogger, Nudiarist discusses skinbook. He is the best nudist blogger on the web and everyone should read what he writes.

He concludes "Nudists and naturists deserve a real, safe online social networking site with clear and established guidelines. It's a shame that when so many people and organizations are working so hard to make nudism and naturism more acceptable in society, Skinbook gets written up in Time magazine merely because it's trendy. Nudists and naturists deserve far better than this superficial, self-serving marketing ploy known as Skinbook." Well put nudiarist!

As some of you may know, I am the PR chair for AANR West. At least once a month, I sit in on the National AANR PR conference call headed by Susan Weaver who will probably be the next AANR president. So I know some of the social media wish lists and plans.

Speaking as AANR West pr chair, we are well aware of the need to get involved in social media. AANR West now has a facebook page at http://bit.ly/AANRWESTFBpage which I encourage everyone to join. AANR also has a facebook page as does TNS.

AANR now has it's own social media "geek squad" where people are donating their time to get us involved in social media.

Someone asked on the AANR WEST board why it took so long for AANR West to start a Facebook presence. I wrote: "This is Tom Mulhall. My wife and I own The Terra Cotta Inn nudist resort in Palm Springs. I am the administrator here although all board members have the password to this Facebook page.

People have to remember, AANR Regionals work is all done by volunteers. We all have jobs and want to do as much as possible to promote nudism and AANR. But, especially in today's economy, everyone has to work harder than ever at their jobs or for us running a nudist resort. At the end of the day, there is not a lot of hours available.

So we can't do things as quickly as we would like to. But, we do do them.

We are always looking for volunteers to help share the load as the more people volunteer to help AANR and nude recreation, the more people learn about it."

For instance it's 9:45pm and I'm still working plugging AANR and my resort, The Terra Cotta Inn. I'd love to have a myspace presence. I just don't have the time to maintain one, so I ignore it. Same with linkedin.

Volunteer to help AANR with social media and help us let the world know all about the fun of nude recreation. By volunteering, you will help us make an impact. If interested in volunteering, give me a call or drop me an e-mail at tom@sunnyfun.com

Tom Mulhall
Terra Cotta Inn clothing optional resort and spa
For info or reservations call 800-786-6938
http://sunnyfun.com
Join the Terra Cotta Inn Facebook resort page at http://bit.ly/TerraCottaInnFBPage

We hope to see you in sunny Palm Springs!

More about how nudists need to support nudist resorts

Over at skinbook.ning.com in their California nudists group section, a few people got upset with Mary Clare because she posted there letting Californians know about our free Thanksgiving dinner back in November and room availability.

That brought out a number of responses. Most people wrote it was good to know what was happening an nudist clubs and resorts as most do not do a good job of communicating with nudists. A few however wrote saying nudist businesses should not write about what's happening at their clubs or resorts as they feel nudist social sites should be for nudists and not businesses.

Nudists who want nudist businesses to stay hidden away crack me up. AANR, TNS and nudist businesses are what has made nudism "cool" again. If it wasn't for all the positive PR that nudist organizations and resorts generate, you would not have enough people willing to try nude sunbathing at legal nude beaches like Haulover beach in Miami or Sandy Hook in New Jersey, or Rooster Rock in Oregon.

Here's an e-mail Mary Clare got from TrueNudists.com today.


"You never know! We were in palm Springs several years ago, but never knew you were there then,otherwise we'd have been there. Never thought there were naturist places outside of Florida. Looks a WHOLE lot better than the hotel we used!

take care and have a successful year"

We work very hard trying to let nudists and naturists around the world know about The Terra Cotta Inn and how popular Palm Springs is as a destination for nude sunbathing. Yet, obviously, lots of nudists and naturists around the world do not know about us.

They say about 1 in 5 Germans vacations at a nudist resort each year. Yet, we only get 2-3 couples from Germany staying at our resort a year. In 2007, 325,000 Germans vacationed in California according to California's tourism department. The biggest segment was couples between ages 35-55 which is out market. If 20% of Germans vacation at nudist resorts, then it means 65,000 visitors to California from Germany would like being nude. And they all don't know about us or other nudist resorts in California.

So as with nudism in general in the US, it is awareness. American nudists need to make the world more aware that we exist, us included. And American nudists need to support nudist resorts, not try to pretend we don't exist as the resorts, clubs and organizations are what gets all the positive PR about nudism and lets the world know how fun it is.

So even though some people feel that nudist businesses should not promote themselves, if they don't start supporting nudist businesses, one day they will find there are no places to go except for in their own houses.

Tom Mulhall
The Terra Cotta Inn clothing optional resort and spa
Sunny Palm Springs, California
800-786-6938
http://sunnyfun.com
Follow us on twitter at http://twitter.com/nudist_resorts