Email List and Facebook
AARF has methods to broadcast information related to AARF animals, adoptions and events that range from almost real time to quarterly publications, and provides a way for AARF friends and animal lovers to share their feelings and and photos. All come on an opt–basis.
Of course, we have the web site at www.aarf.ai, and we publish quarterly newsletters. Those can be visited and read by all interested parties at the time of their choosing.
There is a need to broadcast timely information about things such as adoptions and events; for that we have a announce–only email list, which can be subscribed and unsubscribed to at any time.
Finally, we we provide a two–way mechanism for sharing of info and photos — Facebook.
Since you are reading this, we assume you know about our web site. The newsletters are readily available from the navigation section on the left of all current pages. On this page, we'll describe the email list and our Facebook persona.
aarfupdate Email List
The first is the Aarfupdate email list, aarfupdate.
It is designed as a one–way posting system: from AARF to the people who have subscribed to the list. It is set up essentially as a broadcasting mechanism.
We use the aarfupdate email list (which we'll call “the list” from here on out) to inform list members about AARF happenings. We try to keep the number of emails down to the most time critical announcements. Expect to see less than 10 emails per month. The subject line should always start with
[Aarfupdate]
for those wanting to use email rules or employ a filing system. The emails often contain photos of our animals, but no other extraneous graphics or code. Replies to the list go only to the AARF administrators (called List Moms in list–speak), and so the list stays one way only.
To join the email list , send a pre-addressed email to us asking to join. We'll need just two things:
- Your name. It's just for the email database which is secure on the server (not on any personal machines) and is never sent out.
- The email address for the emails.
As an addition to our one way communications mechanism, we have a way for list members to talk freely back and forth; it's on Facebook.
We have created an entity called “Aarf Anguilla” (we had to call it that because there many other AARFs on Facebook). Sign on to Facebook (you need a free account) and search for Aarf Anguilla. Then send it a Friend Request. If you have other people who may want to added as a friend, Facebook has a Friend Suggestion mechanism, and they too should make a request to become a friend of Aarf Anguilla.
This group is the place for news, photos of your animals (hopefully AARF pets :) and jokes Being Facebook, people will post about all sorts of subjects other than AARF!
The Aarf Anguilla Facebook entity is only monitored occasionally by AARF administrators. There may occasional postings, but our intent is to use the aarfupdate list for our important postings. And so, we concentrate on the email list and leave the Facebook site for more casual chatting amongst the Facebook friends.