[SACR Members] publicity and the SACR website

[Tina Stoecklin]

Hi there,

If you have taken a look at the SACR website  (http://www.sacr.org) within 
the last few days, you will notice that it has gotten a bit smaller, but 
that it also has some very current news and information.

Jonathan Frye and I are embarking on a new website framework that will make 
keeping the site up to date a lot easier, including things like membership 
lists and peal totals.   In the meantime, we have put up a skeleton site 
which gives you the important tower contact information plus the time 
critical items like News and Events.

This site is very easy to keep up to date, and I am keen that it stay as 
current as possible.

To this end, I need your help.

(have you guessed what comes next?)

Yes!  I need news and information from every tower.  And here's the deal: if 
you can keep information coming my way, I will commit to getting it online 
in a timely manner, and further, if we get a good enough information flow, I 
will look into reviving the newsletter.

If every tower sends me one piece of news, a snippet or photo, each month, 
we would have a website that is worth checking out every week for new stuff, 
and a newsletter would be justified.  That's it.  12 items of information 
from each tower in the course of a year.

Some of you might be thinking:  we just get on and ring, we don't do much 
that's 'newsworthy'.  I would say:  we are a small community and we need to 
keep in touch.  One of your learners rings rounds for the 1st time?  Send it 
in!  You had a good clean of the tower and found the Tower Captain's gold 
earring lost 5 years ago? Send it in!

I can help more:  not everyone has time to write a whole article, and not 
everything you do can stretch to a whole article.  You will see on the 
website that I have built a section for small snippets of news (sort of like 
the back page of The Ringing World only shorter).  So if all you have is a 
couple of lines, then send it a couple of lines.  Also, if you want to do a 
nice little write up, but feel a bit overwhelmed by it all, I can give you 
some help if you contact me.

Finally,  I love getting electronic submissions for the website, but I can 
cope with things that come in the post.  To prove it, here's my address:

Tina Stoecklin
Publicity Officer, SACR
1 Albany Quadrant
Glasgow G32 0HL

If you are sending photos, please remember to put it in a sturdy envelope 
(my local postie is a bit of a mangler), and you'll get them back faster if 
you enclose SSAE.

Thank you very much for your cooperation

Cheers,
Tina Stoecklin