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Emailing agendas

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Category: Documentation
Steve James By Steve James
Steve James
03.Oct

Click on the email (envelope) link in the agenda button bar.


A subject which includes the agenda date will be proposed for the email, but it can be edited if you wish.

You can also include a personal message along with the agenda. Compose this in the edit window.
 


Choose recipients (first pull-down menu). The system remembers your choices but you can change them at any time.
 


Choose who your replies go to. Before you use "All Club Members", check with your club that they are happy with this.

 

Select options. This determines what goes in the agenda email.

OMIT the actual agenda is useful for following up – you usually don't need to send the whole agenda again.

 

Selecting Include "Attending" and / or Include "Not Attending" prints a summary of those who have confirmed that they are (or are not) attending.

Attending / not-attending summary

 

FreeToastHost inserts buttons and links in your agenda email to allow recipients to "respond" to the email.  For instance, this lets them sign up for meeting roles right from the emailed agenda.  To learn how these "Response Links" in an emailed agenda work, see http://support.toastmastersclubs.org/doc/item/responding-to-emailed-agendas

Email Variables

The Email Variables drop-down allows you to select variables to insert into your message that is sent with the agenda.  The system will replace the variables with the corresponding values as it emails out the agenda.  For instance, inserting the {{name}} variable allows you to "personalize" your message by including each members name in the message sent to them.

Email Tools

These allow you to use templates and signatures.

See separate Email Tools document.

Responding to emailed agendas

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Category: Documentation
Jane Atkinson By Jane Atkinson
Jane Atkinson
26.Mar

Emailed agendas may contain signup buttons for vacant roles, links for confirming whether or not you'll be at the meeting, and buttons for confirming or dropping a role that's been pre-assigned.

Which of these you get will depend on how your club has the website set up, and what the sender has chosen to include in the email.

Confirmation and signup buttons

 

Signup and confirm / drop buttons are immediately under your name or picture.

 

Attendance notification links

Attendance confirmation links (circled) are just above the agenda header.

 

If you don't have the MAILTO link option selected in your Member Profile (see here), when you click on any of these, you'll be taken to a screen asking you to enter your password. Entering your password then allows the agenda on the website to be updated.

Password screen for confirming roles

If you'd like to enable MAILTO links – meaning that you can respond by email in future and not use passwords – check the box (arrowed) before clicking Submit.

You'll see the following screen:

Warning notice about email-only responses

There are a few email systems and clients that don't work well with MAILTO links. If yours is one of them, you can remove the setting in your Member Profile.

 

If you have enabled MAILTO links in your profile (BEFORE the agenda was sent to you), when you click on a button or link, a new email will open in your email client.

Email confirming role acceptance

Just leave everything like it is - you do not need to change anything - and send.

You'll get a reply, usually within a few minutes, to confirm that your changes have been made.

 

Note:  If someone else has taken the role you are requesting since the time that the agenda was emailed, you will receive an email back stating that.  In that event, you can use the link in the original agenda to request an updated agenda be emailed to you or you can just take a different role in the original agenda email. 

 

You can also use the agenda signup buttons in the same way, to take on a new role.

 

Social media links

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Category: Documentation
Jane Atkinson By Jane Atkinson
Jane Atkinson
25.Mar

If your club has social media accounts, enter the club's social media page links in the relevant fields.

Social media link settings

You can add other social networking sites in the larger field, if you have ones that aren't on the list above. Make sure that you have all the details of one site on one line only. 

There are large number (over 100) of social media icons already stored on the FreeToastHost server and the system knows how to match them up with the appropriate social media URLs.  In most cases, you will only need to type a list of social media URLs in the larger text field, one per line, and FreeToastHost will sort out which icon to use for you.  However, if it fails to match the URL correctly (e.g., you see the default green share icon) or if you want to use a different icon, you can upload your icon using the Upload Icon button and put your icon's URL after your social media page URL, separated by a comma.

For example, both of the following URL formats are fine.  FreeToastHost would try to find an appropriate icon for URL #2 below from its supply of icons:

URL #1, icon URL #1
URL #2

Custom social media settings

 

Login details/notes is for recording information that the next administrator will need.

 

When you save, the icons will show up in a section just below the Members Only menu. They link directly to your club's social media pages.

 

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