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Your unit has a  "BeAScout" Google Map Pin Joining Tool, is it up to date?


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If your unit has already updated it's BeAScout pin, please disregard this notice.

That's right! The BSA has put Scouting on the map all across the nation!
 
In time for Join Scouting 2010, the Boy Scouts of America now has its own joining Web page, www.BeAScout.org, with information on Scouting, plus an actual Google map application that will help potential Scouts and their parents find packs, troops, and crews in their communities and neighborhoods right here in the Knox Trail Council. It's here now!
 
How will it work? In a nutshell, unit leaders will be able to update their unit's Google "pin" - the bubble you see on Google maps - through MyScouting. They can add their unit meeting time, location, phone number, unit Web site address if they have one, as well as a contact name for the unit. It's easy, but it's up to your unit to be sure the information is correct!
 
The Google Pin. The information in the "pins" will be tied to unit records in the BSA's data-base. Unit leaders will have the ability to update this information to keep it accurate and up to date. They will be able to edit it as often as they like.
 
"Ask Us! We can help." A new feature allows people interested in a particular unit to e-mail questions to the unit leaders. For instance, say a potential Scout parent wants to know, "What night does your den meet?"  The parent would click on the "For More Information" link. The site will open up a "blind" email window (the sender never sees the actual email address). He or she types the question and presses Enter. The leader receives the question and can respond. BeAScout keeps a record of the question and the person requesting the information and whether or not they receive a response.
 
Contact People are the glue! Recruiting campaigns depend on personal contact for success. It's important to not only make the contact but to also follow up on all your leads. In BeAScout, both councils and units can be notified when a parent makes contact with a unit. So both unit leaders and district executives can be contacts and receive e-mails from interested parents.
 
Pin Management and Unit Contacts. A unit leader can set contact information using Pin Management (available from My-Scouting > BeAScout link). Initially the Pin Management screen can be accessed by the: top unit leader, unit committee chairperson, & chartered organization representative. These leaders can change the pin from council information to (unit) contact person mode and designate unit leaders to be contacts -- one primary and two alternate contacts (either themselves or other registered leaders of that unit). These primary and alternate contacts will also have access to Pin Management, and they will receive e-mails from leads.
 
Set your Google pin information now, and with the contacts that will help to make your BeAScout campaign a success!
 
BeAScout resources are available on our website under the Council Resources tab > Membership and Marketing or click here.

Be sure to check out all the recruiting resources and incentives being offered this fall!