On Oct 21, 2006, at 11:00 PM, Bryan Murdock wrote:
Yes, but only, like, five ward members have ever bothered to type their record number in and get on the website. Of those five, maybe two have entered an email address. However, when we passed around a clipboard in elders quorum meeting one day, we got 30 email addresses. Hmm, could we put those into the ward website ourselves somehow?
A good Ward Webmaster may help with that. When I was Ward Webmaster I worked with the leaders in my Ward to encourage each of them to use the Ward Websites in their quorums and organizations. They then encouraged members of their organizations to check the Ward Website for events rather than just posting them in the Ward bulletin, and began to use the distribution lists for communications rather than calling large numbers of people or sending out bulk e-mails and having to collect e-mail addresses. I then took a second front and started to pass out flyers on how to sign up for the Ward Website, how to use it, and where to go for help. I offered to sit down and help members with it as they needed help. Then, members without internet access could either access it at the Library, or special attention could be given to them by the leaders to ensure they were notified personally. All of this encouraged most of the active members to join the Ward Website, and ended up being a pretty successful system.
I am anxious however to see things such as e-mail address be passed from MLS to the Ward Websites. This would allow us to collect e-mail addresses from inactive members and have them included in notifications as well without having to manually send out to them or require them to sign up for the Ward Website. Unless that feature's been added since I was WWM...
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