Outreach Resources

This page contains resources to help with Friends Group outreach efforts and event promotion. 

Dane County Parks is happy to help you promote your park events once you have an approved Special Event Permit. In order for us to do this, please help us by doing the following for each of your events:

• Submit the event to our website calendar: use this easy form to submit your event. Once you do, we can approve it and it will show up on our Land & Water and Dane County Parks website event calendars.
• Add us as a co-host on Facebook events: when creating your event, you have the option to add co-hosts. Adding us will display your event to our 6,000+ Facebook followers. Use this PDF guide if you are not sure how to add co-hosts.

We refer to both our website and Facebook event lists when we send out biweekly parks newsletter so please make sure you are taking the steps above so we can help promote your events.

Resources to help your group excel at social media. Resources include a video of some social media tips and tricks as well as a social media guidelines document your organization can download and edit.

The Dane County Land & Water Resources Department has a Flickr account with high quality photos of parks and recreation. Friends groups are welcome to use these images to help promote our parks and natural spaces. Some images include a photographer credit in the photo description. Please include the photo credit when you use the photo.