Communicating with members through the website

Dear Members,

Quick update: the court surface has been spread but lines are still being installed. Please watch the Google calendar in the next few days for the OPEN announcement.

Primary reason for this email: We are now using our website as a means to communicate to you. I will be making a test post after this email. I request that you watch for it and if you don’t receive it immediately after this email, look for it in your spam folder and save the “from” address in your contact list. We likely will still send group emails to sub-groups of membership.

The new method will allow Board members and YOU to make posts to the website which is built on the WordPress blogging platform. When a post is made, members will be notified by email and can click a link and read the post on the website. For this reason, please use discretion and post only when necessary. Examples of appropriate reasons to post:

• a Board member has an update of interest to the entire membership
• a member has taken some clinic or round robin pictures they’d like to share
• a member is seeking hitting partners at a certain level*

*The membership list has been posted in the shed. Members can locate members with similar skill from this list as well.

Note: comments on a post will not generate an email to all, only to the person posting. Only a post will generate an email to all.

All members have been added to the website with a) the main email you provided (the one to which you have already received email from us, this one, not necessarily the one used for the calendar) and b) a username that is constructed as last name first initial. Examples of deviations include:

• babbottkleind (no hyphen)
• birnnjeff (same first initial)
• birnnjane
• dillonb (when signed up as Bob vs. Robert)

You may use your username or email to login. First you will need to set a password. Go here: https://madriverinternet.com/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword

This process may take you to the parent website when complete, so go back to the tennis login if needed, in the footer of the website: https://www.madrivertennis.com/

If/when you make a post, in addition to content, please provide:

• a descriptive title, like a subject would be
• a category (in the right sidebar)

The post notification system is unfortunately still limited to Classic Editor. There are some links to help pages on the Members page, but there is also a ton of WordPress instruction on the web.

The Google calendar has at times been used as a means to communicate short periods of court maintenance or courts too wet to play.

Even though our website is hidden from search engines, it can be accessed when someone knows the URL. Therefore, the Members area on the website is password protected. The password is (you received it by email). The membership list PDF and some help pages are posted. Please respect member privacy and only use this for purposes of tennis at this club.

Darlene
Secretary, Membership