February 2011 BCOA
Announcement for Website and 2011 Membership Renewals
Web Site Announce
As you may have noticed, the BCOA website has been updated and is back online. We are now using the design selected by the membership. The overall organization and menus are based on the designs shown in Option 3 from the Website Option Poll. We hope the organization makes navigation of the website easier. New introductions have been added to various sections and some other wording has been updated. Multiple committee chairpersons have had an opportunity to comment on sections related to their work. If your BCOA committee has suggestions to make regarding the pages about their work for BCOA, please let us know.
All the contact details for committees, officers, board members, affiliated clubs, breeder directory and rescue contacts have been copied by hand into a new format. If you are listed anywhere as a contact on the site, please check each listing to be sure your details are correct. Two corrections have been received so far, surely there are more!
We have new features such as streaming photos of our breed, BCOA archives with club history, online polling and a photo gallery of photos from our members who submitted them for the home page. Coming soon, we will have a new online roster behind the login for ease in locating contact info. I know I am constantly looking for the Roster and even with the bright yellow cover it seems to get lost.
There is a new option for those in the Breeders Directory. The new format will allow one photo in each breeder listing. The photos will be small and must remain the same for the full year. You can see how it will work on the affiliate club contacts where each Club’s logo has been added to their listing. If you have a Breeder Directory listing, please send the photo you want for this year to the Webworker.
One change you may notice is that previous years' Bulletin Boards are now behind the login, rather than on a page accessible to the public. The login has been moved to the member page. If you have not yet gotten your BCOA user login, please contact the webmaster at webmaster@basenji.org and we will get one to you. As soon as we have everyone signed up, we will be moving all of the Bulletin Boards behind the login too, but we are making this transition in stages.
The archive section will be expanded to include back issues of the Bulletins, more years of Bulletin Boards, more years of compilations of ballots, more years of minutes of the annual meetings, and much more.
Please visit the site often to check on club doings, see what's been added to the Online Archives, and check out the latest online photos. Every visit is likely to have something new.
Important Information Regarding Your 2011 BCOA Membership Renewal
February 1, 2011 is now upon us.
What does this mean?
If you sent in your 2011 BCOA membership renewal it means you are still a valued member of the BCOA; we thank you for your prompt attention. It also means you will be listed in the 2011 BCOA Roster.
If you have not sent in your 2011 BCOA membership renewal it means you are too late to get listed in the 2011 roster but not too late to keep your membership current! The BCOA offers its members a grace period (ending March 1, 2011) to allow members to pay their dues and remain current members.
What happens if your membership should lapse?
Thankfully, nothing earth shattering. :-)
If your membership should lapse and you want to rejoin, you will have to go through the whole application process all over again. That means filling out an application, finding two (non-related) sponsors and sending the completed application plus fees to the BCOA for review and voting; a month long (or more) process.
Why go through all that when popping a check in the mail today is so much easier!
Linda Siekert
BCOA Treasurer