Club Communications & Methods

Information and Announcements
All information for our members is delivered in one or more of several methods depending on the urgency and the scope of the message. Vehicles we use are:

• Newsletter - for general monthly updates, news and information

• Website - for all club info as well as more time sensitive topics

• Bulk email - cnewemail at Yahoo! for general or Members Only for restricted

• Direct email - for messaging from one or more members to others

• Phone calls - used where electronic or postal mail are inadequate.

Some details on various communication vehicles follows:

Newsletters & delivery
With today's technology it only makes sense to distribute our newsletters by electronic mail. This serves to deliver the material virtually instantaneously as well as saves publication and delivery costs compared to courier mail methods. Our newsletters are emailed to each member who has an email address on file on a regular schedule each month. Members without such ability or who for other reasons require a hardcopy are sent one through regular USPS mail services to their home. These mailed newsletters are printed in black and white only whereas the electronic versions are in full color.

General "Bulk" Email delivery         
In our attempt to wrestle with the challenge of broadcast messages delivery to all members in a timely manner, we currently utilize a semi-public email distribution service provided by Yahoo as our primary method. We manage a free email "group" with the Yahoo service identified as "cnewemail@yahoogroups.com" whose member list is by subscription only and is managed by us. Any member is welcome, in fact urged, to join and then both send and receive messages, pictures or files to or from other members of the list. Members not receiving email by means of this system often miss useful information or notices. All emails are archived and available for later review or retrival. Other qualified individuals interested in woodturning are also allowed to join our group. Though we do not profess this system to be without flaws, it is the best we have found to date and welcome suggestions on a better system.

We are also testing out a new method using our website to help you send a private email to all current club members at one time.  This is especially useful to those individuals that do not wish to participate in services like Yahoo Groups or where a record of the email is not suitable for retention in a public area like the Yahoo Groups system. You can send an email to all members using a list available from within the password restricted Members Only area. Here you click on a link which launches your e-mail client program on your computer (AOL, Outlook etc.) and creates a blank email with the list of recipients already filled in, which is all of our current members email addresses. Click here to try.