For years, many of you have received our new posts delivered directly to your email boxes, rather than logging into our website. There are of course many advantages to going on the website – we have many pages of history, event descriptions, photos, and mission statements, along with a password protected member directory, but nothing beats the convenience of just opening your email to see what’s new. In July, Google’s Feedburner program was discontinued, rather suddenly to our way of thinking, although we had been told that updates would be discontinued and support would no longer be available. Long story short, emails stopped until we found a way to set up a new system, through a Feedburner alternative called Follow.it. At the end of each post on the website, you will see a button to click to sign up one more time. On https://follow.it/the-garden-club-of-the-back-bay?action=followPub&filter you can now define filters and more delivery channels, e.g. to receive your news via Telegram, news page etc. We encourage everyone to do so. Once you add your email address, you will receive a confirmatory email which you MUST answer in order to be on the list. That is all there is to it – you can unsubscribe at any time. You’ll be offered the opportunity through the company to subscribe to other organizations’ lists, but you are not obligated. The service is free, although we are paying a small premium to keep the emails free of advertisements. We don’t accept ads on the website, and we strive for consistency.
We were able to transfer some of our existing list to the new service, but sadly not all. There were numerical limits. We will notify those who were left off, but if you are reading this on the site, https://www.gardenclubbackbay.org/, please take a moment to register, regardless of membership status or geographic location. So many of the events we promote are virtual, available to all, not just to Bostonians! If you received this in an email, forward it to friends, and thank you.
