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====[[Freegle Direct]]====
Freegle Direct started life as an add-on built by Edward for a Yahoo Group, to make freegling quicker and easier for members. Since Freegle moved away from Yahoo, it's the platform every local Freegle community now runs on.


==== [[Freegle Direct]] ====
====[[ModTools]]====
ModTools helps you moderate your community. It's also available as an app, kept in step with the web version, for Android and Apple tablets and phones. The app is available in every country's app store.


This application/interface from Edward was devised originally as a 'bolt on' to a Yahoo Group to make freegling a much easier and better experience for members. But now we have disengaged from Yahoo, it is the platform that all groups, apart from Norfolk and Waveney, use for their local Freegle group.
===[[Freegle Mobile app]]===
The Freegle app is available to group members on Apple and Android.


==== [[ModTools]] ====
===Facebook===
Centrally, Freegle runs a Facebook page to generate interest and share good news stories. You can easily share these to your own community's page via ModTools.


ModTools helps you moderate your group. 
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ModTools is also available as an app which is simultaneously updated and available for Android and Apple tablets and mobiles.


Modtools can, at the moment, also be used to moderate Yahoo Groups, although this facility will be dropped.
[[Category:Getting Started]]
 
=== [[Freegle Mobile app]] ===
 
The Freegle App is available for group members on Apple and Android.
 
=== Facebook ===
 
Centrally, Freegle runs a Facebook page to generate interest and share good news stories.  This can easily be shared to group pages via Modtools.
 
=== Twitter ===
 
Groups can set up a linked Twitter account which, like Facebook, extends the reach of Freegle on the internet and generates more interest and participation.
 
 
=== Local Facilities ===
==== [[Sustain Eden project]] ====
 
Penrith and Eden Freegle group joined together with other local organisations to deliver a project in their area, funded by a Big Lottery grant. The Grow Your Own project ran from Feb 2013 to Oct 2015.
 
 
 
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[[Category:The Basics]]

Latest revision as of 12:00, 17 July 2026

Freegle Direct

Freegle Direct started life as an add-on built by Edward for a Yahoo Group, to make freegling quicker and easier for members. Since Freegle moved away from Yahoo, it's the platform every local Freegle community now runs on.

ModTools

ModTools helps you moderate your community. It's also available as an app, kept in step with the web version, for Android and Apple tablets and phones. The app is available in every country's app store.

Freegle Mobile app

The Freegle app is available to group members on Apple and Android.

Facebook

Centrally, Freegle runs a Facebook page to generate interest and share good news stories. You can easily share these to your own community's page via ModTools.

Back to Basic Information

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