More CLSA members are involved with our extensive social activities through the year. These include banquets, potluck dinners at the lake, pirate's day, and dock parties. Fun for all ages.

We keep our financial costs low through the volunteer activities of the membership to make it all happen. Follow the "Volunteer" tab above to see some of the opportunities.

The membership form to join CLSA lists this year's joining costs.

Clinton Lake, though man-made to support a nuclear reactor located in the flatlands of east-central Illinois, feels like a lake in the middle of a big woods. Very few houses and structures are seen from the lake and the lake supports a wide diversity of birds and wildlife - a wonderful escape from the modern world.

We have about 100 memberships; some individual and some family.

Simply put, Twitter provides people the ability to have a live, real-time conversation about a topic of interest.
In the case of CLSA, the conversation is about sailing--of course. The benefit of this technology is that it allows anyone who cares to "follow" the conversation to get the most up-to-date information available.
Obviously, it requires people to communicate via "tweets". Short messages sent to the CLSA twitter account. Those who follow CLSA, will get the tweet.
So what?
Here's a simple example. If we're having a race, and conditions are questionable, one could tweet current wind conditions at the lake and anyone interest would be able to make a choice. Do I go or not.
Could be fun, if we participate.

We have a new twitter account called CLSAsailing, which can be followed at http://twitter.com/CLSASailing. CLSA members can post a tweet in two ways. Our website has been setup so that when blogs are posted, a tweet is sent to twitter that points back to the website. Tweets can also be posted like normal. Recent tweets can be followed on the clsasailing home page.
The intent is that sailors can send quick and short messages to other sailors - about conditions at the lake, race results, or other fast-breaking news.

If you are a Facebook user, follow the steps below to access your CLSA blogs from facebook account!
 
 
 

1. Go to your blog page and click on the RSS symbol at the bottom of the page to find out its RSS URL.  It will look something like: feed://www.clsasailing.org/blog/13/feed (the 13 here refers to Bill Vokac's blog)
2. Login to Facebook
3. Hover over "Settings" on the right side of the top blue bar and select "Application Settings".
4. Click on "Notes" on the main list.
5. Click on "Import a Blog" in the box to the right.
6. Enter the URL you discovered in the first step into the "Web URL" box. Agree that the information can be posted by Facebook and click on "Start Importing"
7. Accept the preview
8. Return to your facebook home page!

To contact/email an individual
 

1. Click on "User list" in the menu on the right panel
2. Find and click on the person you want to contact
3. Write your message
4. At the bottom, click "Send e-mail"

Email lists are managed by individuals board members.  As a member you can add or subtract your name from email lists.  Board members can add/subtract anyone to/from the lists.  To sign up:

1. Click on the Email tab
2. Click on the group (on list at the bottom of the page)
3. Click on the "Signups" tab
4. Enter your login name
5. Click on "Sign up"

To email to a group:

1. Click on the Email tab
2. Click on the group (on list below)
3. Click on the "Signups" tab
4. Click on the "Signup Broadcasts" tab
5. Enter a message title and your message body
6. At the bottom, click "Send"

To email to an individual

1. Click on "User list" in the menu on the right panel
2. Find and click on the person you want to contact
3. Write your message
4. At the bottom, click "Send e-mail"

 

The "Email" tab will get you started. From there, click on the group that you want to email. Then click on the "Signups" tab. From here you can see who is on the email list, edit the list, and send your email. The "Signup broadcast" tab allows you to compose and send your message. If you are not a CLSA board member, you will may not be able to use some or all of these menus.

Any board member can create a login for a CLSA member via the following steps:
1) Login
2) Got to: http://www.clsasailing.org/admin/user/user
3) Click on the "add user tab"
4) Fill out the form
5) Click "create new account" at the bottom of the page
The form asks for the following information
- Name (by convention we are using first and last name, each capitalized)
- Password (make something up)
- Email address
- Boats
- Address
- Phone number
- Family members
The last four are optional. They capture what is asked for on a membership application.
An automatic email is sent to the new member login
That's it!

Login and submit a blog entry. Choose "For Sale" as the "Event".

After you login, click on "Create Content" on the right menu. Then click on "Blog entry".
You are now at the blog entry page. Enter a title and choose the Year and Event. Then type (or paste) in your news.
Scroll down the page where you can optionally upload an image.
Finally, click on "Save" at the bottom of the page.
You can later edit or delete your blog entry!

Each member with a login can keep a web-log, or "blog" for short, which all visitors to the site can read. These are typically diary entries about recent events.

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