I thought about posting a TriCLub Thread here at ST and we could help each other and the sport.I´m thinking about some changes for the upcoming racing season in the Tri Club I help here. I´m the man in charge of the online updates at our website and I do the newsletter and I´m actually seeking new ideas for it.
Right now, the newsletter has the following:
Club´s news
Local Race Results and Local Calendar
Small Article on training
Small Article on something else (nutrition, motivation, stretch, whatever)
What´s cool about your tri-club online news letter?
My tri club doesn’t have a newletter or anything, but we do have a cool yahoo group email where you can send one email to the yahoo address and it goes out to the whole club. It works well (providing people don’t flake out) for planning group events.
I am our Club’s communications manager, and I stopped doing a formal newsletter about a year ago - it was a nice idea but just too much work, and I wasn’t sure we were getting much for our efforts.
I now invest more of my time in the Club’s the Web site and an e-mail bulletin that goes out every 2-4 weeks. This bulletin goes to every member and contains very short blurbs on upcoming Club events and news, training, races, occasional member recognition, etc. Every blurb links to supporting content on the Club’s Web site or Web forum. That way the bulletin itself is a quick read, and if you want to find out about more information you just click the appropriate link.
Our Web site (with links to our archived newsletters) is linked below. PM me w/your e-mail address if you’d like to see samples of the bulletin.
I like my club a lot. We have a newslettter that some read. Has all the same basics in it. Most people know to check the message board. We utilize that more. We post our RR’s, carpools, training get togathers, etc. We also have profiles which is great so we can look up others phone #'s and emails. That part is pasword protected.