Posts on this website can be created by sending an email to :
Posting to email is a simple way for ALL members to share information. Posting to email is best with one or two images and of course a story.
Posts are a way of communicating to members and the public about what is happening in our club. Examples of posts are:
- The weekly President’s report
- Speaker presentations
- Weekly minutes of meeting
- Social communications
The website checks the above post box every 30 minutes and publishes any new posts into the website. A simple way to add a post.
However, ONLY club members can do this. If the email address is not recognised by the web site then the post will be rejected.
Here is how you can do it.
- Open you email software (gmail, outlook) and create a new email using the your registered Rotary contact email account
- Add the above email address to the “To” field
- In the subject line there are two steps
- Choose the Post Category. This is just a way to group Posts. At this stage there are four categories to choose from:
- Reports
- Minutes
- Social
- Event
- Start the Subject with the category followed by a colon eg Social:
- Now leave a space after the colon and add the title of your post so the subject line looks like Social: A Night at the Opera
- Choose the Post Category. This is just a way to group Posts. At this stage there are four categories to choose from:
- Add the contents of your post as you would an email. I found that if you are using a bullet or number list it looks better if you increase the initial indent.
- Insert picture(s) to go with your post. Pictures bring the post alive. Your first photo should be in landscape
- Press send
- Visit the site after 30 minutes or so and the post should be there
A couple of Do’s and Don’ts
- The email needs to be sent using HTML (not plain text) Most email are sent HTML particularly smart phones and tablets.
- The first image attached needs to be a landscape image. Subsequent images portrait should be all right. Heads tend to get cut off with Portrait!
- Don’t try and send large image files. The email will not send. If you have a number of images then the post should be created by importing those images to the web site. A topic for another day
That’s it