Longview Hills @ Newport Oregon

The Clubhouse Door

For a long time we (the community) were not suppose to use the Clubhouse door for announcements. Then slowly, due to a lot of us, we began to use the door as announcement place to communicate what was immanent ...Like it was happening tommorow and we wanted the word to get out. Now the door has become the bulletin board.

The trouble is there just to much stuff on it and people are not reading it again. I mean, would you like to stand in the cold and read all those posters? Probably not. Maybe it's time to rethink how we do announcements. The Bulletin Board wasn't working to well because a lot of folks don't take the time to read it which is peculiar to me as one thing we all have is all the time there is in a day...being retired we have all 24 hours.. there is no more than that and we have it all. An old Platitude urges us to, "Slow down and smell the roses"... That probably is good advice even so I think Jim and Bonnie Rose might not appreciate it.

My inclination is to turn to technology to fix a problem. That is simply the way of my mind. We were thinking about some sort of sign announcing the latest event or storm warning on a sign as you leave the park or a mini radio station that broadcasts to the park. See how a techie starts looking at things?

A lot of folks use the calendar as a place to find their information. Did you know that the calendar can be continously updated by anyone? Right now it's just Jacky and me. Suppose we get the clubs together and the Social Club Board and just interested folks and show them in ten minutes how to put stuff on the calendar. I would keep the guts of it under control so the calendar program could not be hurt but you could put in whatever you want.. Change times, fix mistakes, cancel events. All that on your computer in just a few minutes.

This is so very easy..

Make announcements here on the website.. You don't have to learn anything if you know how to send an email. Just write an email to the website and it publishes itself. Remember Barb Dudley's stories as they traveled across the USA last month? All she did was email them to the website's email address and they were published instantly... She had to know absolutely nothing about the website... Ask her in the comments.

Barb found it so much fun that we sat down for an hour and showed her how to write with more features and how to do the calendar. Then she built her own website.. Took about an hour for all that.

You know we built a state of the art computer lab and we could have classes in this stuff.. You could do it whether you are 59 or 90 at some level from very easy to pretty easy.