As you know our chapter is about 2-1/2 years old. Since we became a part of CAS the state Board of Directors has been talking about then dropping then talking about . . . going to online membership management. 

Well, CAS-GJ had such confusion going on with an overly complex spreadsheet as a management tool that we decided to just make the leap to doing that and other functions online.

It will take time, lots of effort on the part of our webpage designer, our Treasurer, another volunteer and myself. Lots of patience and understanding on the part of our membership will be needed and appreciated as we work up the systems, iron out the wrinkles and move through the first weeks, months (and maybe a year?) of adjustments, customizations and other details of this software that is used successfully by thousands of nonprofit organizations.

Please hang in there as we make this whole thing work. The development crew is working diligently and daily to get this functioning properly.

In the meantime you may have noticed the url that had accessed our meetup.com site --  www.cas-gj.org  --- now gets you to this website. A new url ---  www.cas-gjEvents.org  --- takes you to the meetup page. 

I could go on and on but . . .  better to let you digest a little at a time. 

With the  weather beginning to cool off soon I'm looking forward to lots of field trips. I hope to see you there and at our monthly meetings.

Using the blog gadget, you can add a blog to your Wild Apricot site to provide timely updates and information to your membership.

By using Recent blog posts, you can display a list of the most recent blog posts, with links to the full posts. The list will include the date of each post and the name of the poster – with the name linking to their profile if available.

For instructions on inserting, moving, and deleting gadgets, see Gadgets.

You can create as many different blogs as you wish. You can limit access to a blog by placing it on a restricted page. If you make the page public, you can still use the blog gadget settings to control functionality for visitors and members.

You can read more about setting up blogs on our Blog help page.

If you are looking on more information on how to use blog, you can find it here.

This is another sample blog entry. Depending on your readers' access permissions, they can comment on your posts, and reply to comments.

You can learn more about setting up blog pages on our Blog help page.