Before I kick off on this week's topic - a word in your ear. Keep a look out or an ear open on Friday morning while your favourite news programmes are on, CILT may well get a mention releasing some important news. All will be revealed on Friday!
OK, I’m on a Mission Impossible with this blog today. We need your email address as the number of bouncebacks we’re getting is increasing at the moment. The trouble is, if you are reading this, then we obviously do have your correct email address and it’s not you I need to speak to!
Clearly I’m tangling myself into knots with this. Stick with me; it might get exciting to see how I write a blog aimed at people who won’t actually receive it!
Obviously, if you could all check with your fellow members the next time you are at a CILT event; just to ensure they have kept us informed of any email address changes.
And if you know some of your work colleagues are members, could you just ask them if they are still receiving this bulletin, and other CILT emails? It’s pretty easy to update us, even for a chap like me. Send new details to membership@ciltuk.org.uk or phone 01536 740104.
Time was, we used to do all our communicating with you through the post. But a letter to all members costs zillions, so we’re reliant on our email database being as up-to-date as it can be to communicate easily and effectively with members. Otherwise I’d still be writing this blog to each of you with a quill pen, or carving it in stone – and my handwriting is illegible with a biro, yet alone a chisel.
A membership organisation is reliant on the up-to-dateness of its database. It’s more valuable than a pot of gold. So it’s not good if one of the email addresses in your database is still for Noah@Ark.com.
The problem is that email addresses are far more ephemeral than house addresses, in the same way people’s mobile numbers change every week even though their landline remains constant. It’s the nature of new technology. I say people change phones every week, except for me that is. I got out my trusty old mobile the other week and Alex here gave me a look as if I’d just wandered in from my cave and would be asking her how to make fire next.
If we don’t like the service from our web provider or mobile network, it’s easy to change. Moving house - or changing your phone line in the good old days of the GPO - is a bit more of a significant step. In fact, in the good old days of the GPO, it was easier to move than get a new phone number, unless you settled for a party line (Young Professionals Forum members note: a party line was a shared phone line with your next door neighbour. You’ve no idea...).
If you too have had enough of your web provider, don’t forget to let us know when you change address. If you’ve registered to use our Members’ Area of the web site it’s dead easy to change all the details for yourself online here. If you haven’t, no problem, contact the only email address that never changes, membership@ciltuk.org.uk or phone 01536 740104.
Otherwise leave a rock on the doorstep. Don’t forget to chisel your new email address on it. Carving that fancy @ is really tricky though, I find.
David Jinks
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