From the "Home" page, click on the "News" tab. To the lower left of this page is a "block" for our newsletter, the "WIndword". If you see a "Subscribe" button, click on it and you will be subscribed. Then, whenever a new newsletter is published, you will receive it in email.

To begin you'll need to have "board member" permissions.

Click on "Create content" on the navigation menu on the right side of the page.

Click on "Newsletter Issue".

You are now on the page for creating/submitting the newsletter. There, you'll enter:

• A title for your issue
• Which newsletter series this issue is part of
• Text, which could actually be the newsletter.  This is done in the same fashion as writing a blog.

You may want to open "File attachments" below and upload a file - perhaps the actual newsletter in pdf format.

You can then decide to send the newsletter, send a test, or hold on and don't send it.  This last option allows you to come back and finish the letter at another time.

Behind the scenes, site users are allowed to subscribe to the newsletter.  When you chose to send the newsletter, the information that you drafted is emailed to all subscribed users.

See the FAQ on how to get newsletters.

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 "follows" the conversation to get the most up-to-date information available.

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?

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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