New method for DCMM event posting?
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From: Everett, WA
Originally Posted by ravana
I was just doing some research & wordpress (that thing with the 1969 date) has a newsletter plugin that will send an email out every X days and include a summary of all posts during that period.
I am not sure if you guys are already using it, but that would be kinda nice for a weekly update and once in a while notices could go out manually.
I am not sure if you guys are already using it, but that would be kinda nice for a weekly update and once in a while notices could go out manually.
Originally Posted by Wagnbat
Our hosting service HAS a newsletter plugin already, but it's not configured.
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From: Northeast Ohio
Originally Posted by chows4us
Marina and MiniNurse. wait a second. 
Before any one individual has to worry about maintain a set of email addresses and the constant updating, etc. wouldn't be a lot simpler to take 10 minutes out and create a simple Yahoo Group with it build it email listserver???
Thousands of mailing lists already exists. You can set the options to receive every email, a daily list of all emails, or no email (just read the website)
Its FREE. Free is good. No hassle, you want the emails, you just sign up
BTW, Events can be posted there too on the common calendar
Before any one individual has to worry about maintain a set of email addresses and the constant updating, etc. wouldn't be a lot simpler to take 10 minutes out and create a simple Yahoo Group with it build it email listserver???
Thousands of mailing lists already exists. You can set the options to receive every email, a daily list of all emails, or no email (just read the website)
Its FREE. Free is good. No hassle, you want the emails, you just sign up
BTW, Events can be posted there too on the common calendar
The club already maintains an e-mail list, when you sign up for the club your e-mail address is collected, managing it isn't a problem. When I was President I sent out a few mass mailings to the membership.
There are a few things that could be done to alleviate the communications problem (and stay far away from a Yahoo Group).
- UPDATE THE WEBSITE! It doesn't need to be fancy, it just needs to be kept up to date. Maybe run the whole thing off of WordPress or something. Running it off of a blogging program has the added advantage of RSS feeds for those that use them...
- Teach members how to subscribe to the forum here on NAM. This will generate an e-mail once a day whenever a thread is updated in the DCMM forum here on NAM or a new thread is created in the DCMM forum on NAM. They can see the thread subject and go directly to the thread. Members don't need to come to NAM daily to find out what's going on, only when an event is posted or updated... And they'll know when it happens.
- Use the e-mail addresses we have... Send out an event update to the membership with the details on all the upcoming events. It doesn't have to be fancy, and it shouldn't go out more than once a month.
- Submit the club events to the eventcast on White Roof Radio. db and I publicize the events that are sent to us... DCMM hasn't submitted a single event... ever...
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From: Sword Mountain
Originally Posted by chows4us
Marina and MiniNurse. wait a second.
Before any one individual has to worry about maintain a set of email addresses and the constant updating, etc. wouldn't be a lot simpler to take 10 minutes out and create a simple Yahoo Group with it build it email listserver???
Thousands of mailing lists already exists. You can set the options to receive every email, a daily list of all emails, or no email (just read the website)
Its FREE. Free is good. No hassle, you want the emails, you just sign up
BTW, Events can be posted there too on the common calendar
Before any one individual has to worry about maintain a set of email addresses and the constant updating, etc. wouldn't be a lot simpler to take 10 minutes out and create a simple Yahoo Group with it build it email listserver???
Thousands of mailing lists already exists. You can set the options to receive every email, a daily list of all emails, or no email (just read the website)
Its FREE. Free is good. No hassle, you want the emails, you just sign up
BTW, Events can be posted there too on the common calendar
Krut just about has a new website built for us. It should debut very soon, if it has not already. It'll have a calender and be kept up to date with event information and hopefully members will start to use it instead of avoiding it.
We're up on WordPress...
It's not as pretty as I'd like - http://www.dcmetrominis.org but I'm going to work with one of the members to get a DCMM specific template. As far as added functionality - with WordPress you have to be careful of which items you add (like calendaring or photo display) because it can reek havoc on your pages, changing formatting etc.
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