Information on announcements and reminders for clubs and activities
This document contains information about announcements for clubs and activities submitted to the daily email bulletin, What's Happening at Quail Creek.
The editorial policy for What's Happening emphasizes club web pages as the primary source of information about club events and activities. What's Happening accepts and encourages two forms of announcement: (1) regular announcements of events and activities, and (2) brief reminders of regularly occurring events. Both are submitted using the announcement system but they differ in length. Unlike the regular announcement, the reminder consists of a short message with a link to a webpage (if available).
Regular announcements for Clubs and Activities in What's Happening include
special club events (occurring once or infrequently) such as kick-off luncheons or annual BBQs and
seasonal messages, e.g., groups of classes, lecture series.
All other club-related mentions are done as short notices that appear under "QC Reminders." These include reminders about regularly scheduled meetings. As the contributor, you are responsible for the content of the reminder notice and the dates of its publication.
The reminder should be requested once using the announcement system, selecting "create reminder".
Only the reminder text in the reminder form is used to compose the reminder; the Announcement body used in regular announcements is NOT used for reminders and thus do not appear on the reminder form.
Supplemental document uploads are not supported for reminders.
An event's date may be mentioned if appropriate (e.g., a monthly activity).
A link to the club listing or external website should be included. To obtain your club's address for that link, before logging in, go to the Quail Creek website at
http://quailcreekhoa.org. Under "Activities" > "Clubs & Activities", locate your club/activity and click on the title. Once your listing is visible, copy the web address from the address line at the top of the browser. It will look something like this:
http://www.quailcreekhoa.org/Activities/Clubs_and_Activities/Adopt-a-Highway2654733.htm
Paste the url into the "web address" field of the announcement form.
You can also link to an external website if you have one.)
The reminder notice will appear in What's Happening on the dates you specify in the reminder form.
Club representatives should keep announcements of routine (e.g., monthly) activities to a minimum and insure that details (including contact information, dates, times, and places) are on the club listing or external website.
Exceptions not covered above (e.g., last minute cancellations) are considered on a case-by-case basis and published at the discretion of the Editor of What's Happening.
Direct questions to the Editor at whatshappening@quailcreekpoa.org.