From jazzmandel at earthlink.net Thu Jul 15 01:44:06 2010 From: jazzmandel at earthlink.net (howard Mandel) Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 01:44:06 -0400 Subject: [jja-announce] announcing the JJA's new members' site Message-ID: <387A5195-2C71-467C-BAB3-3DE2FE8888C1@earthlink.net> GREAT NEWS: The JJA's new Member Site/Office is now open! Help us move into this new online office. ACTION POINT: If you are or were a JJA Member -- whatever your current status -- and you want to stay on the JJA membership rolls, you MUST login to the site, update your record and complete your membership profile. You can go to the site right now and follow the login instructions http://members.jazzjournalists.org (NOTE: there's no "www." in this url; http://jja.camp8.org may sometimes appear as an alternate URL that gets you to the same place.) BENEFITS: the new site will allow us to: *Create searchable JJA Member Directories -- one public, one viewable only to fellow JJA members; you customize them both; *Determine eligibility for member discounts, Awards voting, etc. -- if you are not shown as an active, paid-up member on the site, you won't get member benefits, so check your status now and please renew (reactivate) your membership if you are shown as "lapsed". Notify us if you believe the status shown is incorrect. * Administer most JJA email lists --this one will soon be defunct. So if your correct address isn't in the new "office files" we won't be able to contact you. *Administer all JJA Member records-- All JJA member applications and renewals will now be made and processed online; we strongly urge you to pay online as well. *Send out automatic membership renewal reminders -- starting two months before your renewal is due; if you haven't renewed by 45 days after your due date, your JJA membership will automatically lapse and you'll lose member benefits. *More easily create special interest or geographical groups for organizing events, etc. AGAIN: You can go to the site right now and follow the login instructions http://members.jazzjournalists.org ( there's NO "www") If you can't visit the site immediately, or when you visit you can't log in despite following the instructions on the site, LOOK FOR ANOTHER EMAIL COMING FROM THE SITE IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS. If you DON'T get THAT email, it means we didn't transfer your contact information properly, or there is some other problem. So please write admin at jazzjournalists.org We don't want to lose you in the transition! When you DO get the email, if you haven't done so already, please go to the new site and LOG IN as soon as possible to check and update your Member Profile. We want to start publicizing the Member Directory to the public as soon as possible so you can benefit from being included. But we can't do so until a "critical mass" of members have filled out their profiles. This change has been a long time coming and the JJA administration is really excited about it. It should help us greatly improve our recordkeeping and communications with you. The JJA has never had a paid office staff (or even a physical office) -- which has contributed to making past record-keeping less than perfect. We've worked hard to fill in the gaps as we made the move to the new online system -- but there are likely still errors we didn't catch. Please help us find and fix them now. Log in, view your own record, correct and update it. Any changes you make in your profile will automatically be made in our administrative records. You don't need to notify us except if you can't login at all or your Membership level or payment status is shown incorrectly. You can't change those yourself. Finally, we know the "office" website itself still needs a lot of tweaking and editing. Send all comments including suggestions for improving the user instructions or the contents of the site to: admin at jazzjournalists.org and president at jazzjournalists.org. thanks, President Howard From president at jazzjournalists.org Sun Jul 18 13:14:06 2010 From: president at jazzjournalists.org (JJA, President) Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 13:14:06 -0400 Subject: [jja-announce] spam filters vs. registering at members.jazzjournalists.org Message-ID: Hey JJA members -- If you use a spam filter, please change it immediately so that you can receive emails from the multiple new Jazz Journalists Association member management accounts. You must be able to receive mail from BOTH http://JJA.camp8.org AND any emails from addresses at @jazzjournalists.org The long-time JJA member mailing list-- jja_announce at jazzhouse.org-- will be shut down very soon. It will replaced by more flexible email lists managed at the addresses above. BUT: If you have not reset your spam filters to accept mail from the addresses above, WE WILL BE UNABLE TO REACH YOU AT ALL. PLEASE NOTE: WE CANNOT RESPOND TO SPAM FILTERS THAT REQUIRE US TO VALIDATE INDIVIDUALLY BY FILLING OUT A FORM. We have already had a number of "bouncebacks" from active member accounts with such filters installed. (Most seem to be Earthlink accounts.) If you don't reconfigure your filters to accept the addresses above YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE ANY FURTHER EMAILS FROM THE JJA. Also, if you haven't done so already, please go to http://members.jazzjournalists.org and complete your member profile. It's easy! It's fun! It's all about self-promotion, so put on your best professional face, tell people who you are and what you do best of anyone, and where they can see proof of it. Thanks to the many members who've done this already. It's an impressive lot, as you'll be able to see, because the membership directory is visible (to the general public as well as registered JJA members) now (and remember, you can revise your profile at any time) -- best, Howard & JJA Web admin