Invite all your club members who collect swarms to join.  Add these people as friends within the site. 

Put an easy link on your website directing swarm enquiries direct to www.BeeSwarm.uk. This will remove the administrative burden of swarm emails on your club swarm officer. You could even add the Guest account details to your website so people know they don’t need to have a reporter account in order to post a swarm. 

Username: Guest   Pwd: BeeSwarm

Actively managing your area could include: 

• Giving Advice to Swarm Reporters.
• Publicising the website.
• Helping swarm reporters to post to the correct place.
• Editing peoples posts with additional information.
• Sanitising posts in your areas after the swarm has been removed and the job is complete. 
• Posting any additional swarms you hear of to the site.

Sanitising Posts.

As an admin you can be given moderator rights within the individual postcode spaces. This will allow you to edit the posts. 

• Please keep an eye out for innapropreate content and remove where needed.
• Please keep an eye out for posts that are on the wrong postcode. 
  • You can move the content using the move content feature in the drop down of the post.
• Please help us to sanitise a posts after they are no longer active.
  • Edit the post once they are finished so that no personal information can be harvested. Please leave the post there to count numbers at the end of the year.
  • XXX out enough of a phone number and the second part of a postcode as well as any house number and street so as to prevent any personal information being available on the site. 

Copy and paste this image   into the top of the post and align to the right. 

Helping new reporters

The site "SHOULD" run seamlessly with no input from an Admin, however that is not quite the case.  Sometimes swarm reporters get confused and post to the wrong postcode spaces or don't manage to find the postcode space itself.  Keep an eye out for the new members in your area who are signed up as reporters and not joined any postcodes. These usually are people who have not managed to get to the swarm reporting part of the site and could do with a friendly call. Their phone numbers are often on the profile page marked communications. You can either post on their behalf or talk them through the final stage. 

Control over your area

Currently there is no specific control granted to a club over an area and all swarm collectors are considered equal. However, the more of your club members in a specific postcode, the more of a monopoly you will naturally have over those post codes. An active Club Admin covering the area will also massively benefit the club members within that region. 

Actively managing your area will also raise awareness of your association in the area encouraging outher beekeepers to join your club.  Use the friend feature to keep all your club together and up to date.