[gvttc general] Happy New Year: Announcements, changes and general information
Vadim
vadifey at gmail.com
Wed Dec 31 12:55:24 EST 2014
I am also interested in buying Joola balls. So together with Tamin Chang we
would need two more people to get free shipping from Amazon. Please let me
know.
Thanks,
Vadim
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Burair Kothari via gvttc.general <
gvttc.general at gvttc.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> A happy new year to all of you. I want to take this opportunity to thank
> each of you for your support of the club, if you have been a member of the
> leagues or open play over the past year; or, if you are just interested in
> hearing about what's new and happening in this club, I want to thank you
> for your time in reading our emails.
>
> It has been a privilege for me to join the executive committee of the club
> this year -- a group of committed individuals who are fun to talk with, and
> are responsive and creative with ideas and suggestions so we can keep the
> club a fun place and take it further in promoting table tennis as a sport
> with all its health, wellness, social and mental benefits.
>
> I have a few new features/announcements about our mailing list, website.
> management and outreach to share, this is a bit lengthy so won't blame you
> if you skip reading. If you want me to explain personally or have questions
> on anything, you can catch me warming the bench as usual at the club.
>
> N.B. If you read to the bottom I saw a deal from Amazon.com today that you
> may find interesting .... sort of an early treasure hunt ;)
>
> *Mailing List*
>
> Our mailing list is being phased out of Yahoo groups. This was because
> Yahoo had implemented a policy of not allowing users to register for the
> mailing list without a Yahoo account and some people do not need/want a
> Yahoo account. So we took an opportunity to change services and move our
> mailing list to its own little niche on the internet. The new mailing list
> address is:
>
> gvttc.general at gvttc.com
>
> Please route all email to the members of the old list to this new list. For
> a short time all email to the old list address will still be sent to
> everyone, but please try to transition to the new list address and update
> your address books.
>
> Here are a few pages to bookmark if you want to see old archives or want to
> change your mailing list options:
>
> Subscribe to list and view basic list info:
> http://www.gvttc.com/gen_list_info
>
> View archives of past messages to this list (note the archives are
> practically empty right now since this is a brand new list):
> http://www.gvttc.com/gen_list_archives
>
> Unsubscribe:
> http://www.gvttc.com/gen_list_unsubscribe
>
> The archives are public and accessible without the need to login to
> anything. You can subscribe, unsubscribe and re-subscribe via the links
> above. If you have an account on the gvttc.com website you should be able
> to view the current status of your subscription by clicking on "My Account"
> in the top right corner of the site -- then selecting the "Mailiing Lists"
> tab.
>
> *Website*
>
> There's been a change in the look of the website as well as the web address
> of the pages within it, this may or may not impact some of your bookmarks:
> -- All sub pages in the website which were of the form:
> http://www.gvttc.com/drupal/somepage
> now point to
> http://www.gvttc.com/somepage
>
> -- i.e. there is no "drupal" anymore in any of the website addresses --
> this makes our web addresses shorter.
>
> There are additional new features which I will be adding in the next few
> months which will revamp our handling of the stats, making it cooler,
> faster, more efficient and remove some load off the directors.
>
> *Management*
>
> There are brand (smashing -- can't say spanking because that's not proper
> table tennis .... ) new email addresses for all of the people serving in
> executive positions on the executive committee of the club, the league
> directors and the head coach:
>
> E-Mail Person(s) the email goes
> to
> president at gvttc.com Roger Haidvogel
> vicepresident at gvttc.com Burair Kothari
> treasurer at gvttc.com Dustin Zemaitis
> leaguedirector at gvttc.com Ray Mack, Dan Emord, Marc Maronian
> headcoach at gvttc.com Ray Mack
>
>
> *Outreach*
>
> Finally Ray Mack has a new blog with his first entry already available:
>
> http://www.gvttc.com/coach_rays_blog
>
> Please stay tuned for more on the stories and blogs front -- I want to get
> some people to volunteer their table tennis stories, picture and videos
> (from any time and any place) and I will either put them up myself or allow
> you access to create and edit your own entries. There is a reporter from
> the Democrat and Chronicle who is interested in posting our stories on her
> more widely accessed blog as well. These stories I think have to be more
> general and of interest to the public outside of our club, here is the text
> of the email she sent (and her address -- if you would like to contact her
> directly):
>
> *Thanks for article on ping pong (Table Tennis)*
> ------------------------------
> *Singer, Patti *<psinger at democratandchronicle.com>Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at
> 8:36
> AM
> To: Burair Kothari <burair.kothari at gmail.com>
>
> Hi, Burair,
>
>
>
> Thank you for letting me know. I plan to run some of the stories in my
> blog, so if any would care to share theirs, please have them contact me.
> I’m also asking folks to send in a head and shoulders photo, or a photo
> with a ping pong backdrop.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Patti Singer
>
> Health reporter
>
> Office: (585) 258-2312
>
> Mobile: (585) 802-7452
>
> psinger at democratandchronicle.com
>
> http://blogs.democratandchronicle.com/health/
>
> Twitter at PattiSingerRoc
>
>
>
> *From:* Burair Kothari [mailto:burair.kothari at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Sunday, December 21, 2014 2:09 PM
> *To:* Singer, Patti
> *Cc:* Raymond31923; Berl Stein; Roger Haidvogel
> *Subject:* Thanks for article on ping pong (Table Tennis)
>
>
>
> Hi Patti,
>
> We (the members of the Genesee Valley Table Tennis Club) shared your
> article in our club, many people responded that they enjoyed reading it.
> Some of us have similar stories of how we began to play and appreciate you
> bringing the sport public attention.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Burair Kothari
>
> Vice President
>
> Genesee Valley Table Tennis Club
>
> http://www.gvttc.com
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> And ... finally ... if you're still there ..... drrrruuuummmmmrrolllls
> deal of the day on amazon for $10.22 includes 18 Joola select 3* balls --
> so is a practically free case:
>
> *JOOLA Table Tennis Tour Case, Blue*
> by Joola
> *Link:* http://amzn.com/B00EM6K0B2
>
> Tamin Chang wants one, and if 4 or more of you get together on this you can
> get free shipping .....
>
> Whew that was long.... thanks for reading ... .
>
> Until next time.
>
> Regards,
> Burair
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