• The
            
            
              FINAT Community
            
            
              is the VIP
            
            
              Suite for FINAT members. It offers
            
            
              exclusive content and connections only
            
            
              accessible to member companies and
            
            
              their staff.
            
            
              • The FINAT
            
            
              Linked-in Group
            
            
              offers a
            
            
              virtual discussion platform for all those
            
            
              interested in the self-adhesive label
            
            
              industry (members and non-members of
            
            
              FINAT). Highlights from the Linked-in
            
            
              Group appear inside the FINAT website.
            
            
              • FINAT’s
            
            
              twitter account
            
            
              is the label
            
            
              community’s 140 signs ‘ticker tape’,
            
            
              briefing the community’s followers in a
            
            
              split second about news frommember
            
            
              companies, FINAT updates, and new
            
            
              activity on FINAT communities. Twitter
            
            
              feeds from FINAT (including Retweets
            
            
              from FINAT) are visible on the FINAT
            
            
              home page.
            
            
              
                Make sure to follow @FINATcom and have
              
            
            
              
                your member company being followed by
              
            
            
              
                us!!
              
            
            
              • The
            
            
              FINAT Facebook
            
            
              group is the
            
            
              community members’ social club,
            
            
              allowing members to share personal
            
            
              experiences and invite them for FINAT
            
            
              networking events.
            
            
              Target is to increase the exposure on all
            
            
              three platforms by a significant factor by
            
            
              the end of 2013, and in doing so raising
            
            
              the awareness about activities inside the
            
            
              (online) FINAT Community. The PR and
            
            
              communications subcommittee has
            
            
              established an
            
            
              Online Prioritisation Plan
            
            
              listing the targets for the coming 12
            
            
              months.
            
            
              With the input from FINAT Committee
            
            
              members and under the leadership of
            
            
              Marketing Committee member
            
            
              Rob
            
            
              Verbruggen
            
            
              from Avery Dennison,
            
            
              FINAT will post a minimum of 2 blogs/
            
            
              articles a month on the FINAT Member
            
            
              Community, initiate a minimum of 2
            
            
              discussions per month in the Linked-in
            
            
              Group (based on previous blogs),
            
            
              monitor and respond to existing
            
            
              Linked-in discussions, generate a
            
            
              minimum of two twitter messages per
            
            
              week and increase the number of twitter
            
            
              accounts followed and those following
            
            
              FINAT from 200 to more than 300. At
            
            
              the secretariat, FINAT Community
            
            
              Manager
            
            
              Elke Verbaarschot
            
            
              will
            
            
              coordinate the inputs into the different
            
            
              media.
            
            
              CALL
            
            
              FOR
            
            
              FEEDBACK
            
            
              AND
            
            
              INPUT
            
            
              FINAT’s members are very important to the association. Therefore feedback
            
            
              and input for content is very welcome. The online community is also a
            
            
              perfect place to tell FINAT what keeps members busy. The feedback and
            
            
              opinions of FINAT members is being monitored continually via the contact
            
            
              form, the poll functionality, rating possibilities or comment features.
            
            
              
                Rob Verbruggen
              
            
            
              
                Elke Verbaarschot
              
            
            
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              FINAT YEARBOOK
            
            
              
                2013
              
            
            
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