Email Sign-ups

As the Fall Fundraiser comes to an end, I hope everyone has been having an amazing time. I know it's been great to see so many of your smiling faces around the building this week! The campaign is going great - as always, your role as volunteers is absolutely vital and we're so grateful for all the hard work you're putting in.

And because we want to continue seeing all your smiling faces around here, I just want to make sure that everyone knows how to receive email updates from this blog. Signing up for emails is completely optional, and if you don't want them, you don't have to have them. We'll continue to post blog stuff on Facebook, and if you prefer to occasionally hop on over here and check what's happening yourself, that's fine as well. But for those of you who want to receive emails, I hope this will clear up any confusion.

Signing up for emails is very simple. Just click on the "Subscribe to Emails" button along the right hand side of the blog.

This will open a page with a form on it. Fill out the form and click "Subscribe to List." You'll then receive an email that asks you to confirm your subscription. Once you follow the directions in the email, you should be subscribed!

The "Dear Volunteers" email with content from the blog sends out once a week, on Thursday evenings. If nothing changes on the blog that week, no email will send. Occasionally we may send out other emails that contains information more time sensitive - the winner of the cake draw, for instance.

If at any time you want to unsubscribe from emails or change your information, you can do so by clicking the "Unsubscribe from this list" or "Update subscription preferences" links located at the bottom of every email. You can also email us and we can make changes manually.

And that's all she wrote! If you have any concerns, issues, or questions about this blog, the emails, or even about volunteering in general, don't hesitate to ask here, on Facebook, or by email. And keep on smiling!

Sign-up Forms, Emails, and Blogs, oh my!

If you're reading this, it means you have successfully accessed this fancy new blog. And many of you have clicked that "Subscribe to Emails" button on the right, there, and filled out a form to get a weekly digest of what's happening here on the blog. And even more of you have braved the sometimes confusing Fall Fundraiser Volunteer Application form. It's great to see everyone embracing this new system, even if it is scary and different.

To try and cut down that "scary" part of all this, I (Cassidy, the Blog Intern) thought it might be prudent to explain just what is going on behind the scenes. The system we're using to make all these forms is fantastic, but when all you see is a form and emails, it can be hard to understand just what exactly is happening. So join me as I try and explain just what this MailChimp thing is that we keep talking about. I promise there's no actual chimps involved.