Communications Committee

Hello, and thanks for your interest in our Communications Committee. According the our association by-laws, this committee is responsible for publishing the newsletter, managing the web site, and maintaining our telephone Hotline. In addition we are responsible for other Internet programs, email notifications and are also tasked with putting out meeting signs each month to publicize our 3rd Monday meetings. Thanks to our board members who'll be doing most of that work this year.

It has been a very enjoyable and rewarding experience serving as your Webmaster and committee chairman for the past few years. Our former Treasurer, Cass Moret, created our first web page while also serving as Treasurer, and was instrumental in my joining the association and taking on the Webmaster's duties in 2008. Last year, I was asked to become the Communications Coordinator and as such will continue to manage the web site, Hotline and edit the newsletter. I look forward to working again this year with the board of directors to achieve a cohesive and coordinated communications effort.

Newsletter & Web Page

In 2008, our web page and this newsletter were redesigned and branded as The Broadmoor Breeze. Both were well received and continue to be very popular with our members and residents of Baton Rouge. For the 11 month period ending 2/28/10, we had 12,917 visitors to the web site who looked at 40,616. The stats are illustrated in the table below. Our newsletter was published 3 times in 2009 and will return to our regular schedule of 4 issues this year, barring anymore natural disasters. It is mailed to approximately 2100 recipients. Recent and older PDF versions can be downloaded here.

New pages on our web site include Neighborhood Watch and The Broadmoor Crime Prevention and Improvement District (BCPID). Both will be expanded as these important new undertakings move along. I encourage you to join NW and to become familiar with and support the BCPID endeavor.

A recently renamed and expanded page is the Broadmoor Boulevard that was previously known as Broadmoor People. I hope everyone will enjoy it and contribute to the content.

This table illustrates the number of visitors (Visits) to our site and the number of pages (Pages) viewed. It is updated monthly. The latest month's numbers are usually for a partial month.

Hotline Number 926-9829

Recently, changes were made to our telephone Hotline 926-9829 that include new features and additional voice mailboxes to make it easier for us to respond to your phone messages. The Hotline number is the same, but you'll hear a new recording with the option of hearing several other messages from our Committee Chairpersons, or you can leave a message. The new service costs a lot less and hopefully will be utilized more as we promote the number and expand the information that is available to callers. 

Register for Email Program

Our email database is used each week to send important messages to residents regarding such things as monthly meetings, social events, lost and found pets, crime alerts, notices from Metro Council and EBR Parish, and other items of interest to the community.

Residents can now register their email addresses online. So, if you aren't receiving weekly emails from us, please register. The addresses in our database are those that we receive from Membership Forms, Neighborhood Watch Forms, and from sign up sheets at meetings and events, and some are no longer valid. Please keep us up to date with your current address and start receiving our weekly bulletins. To register, GO TO EMAIL REGISTRATION and give us your new email address. OR, send us an EMAIL update with your old and new address. Visit the Communications Committee page.

Advertising

Advertising is an important part of our overall communications program and our former Advertising Committee Chairman John Perkins is to be congratulated for his outstanding efforts in signing advertisers, many of whom are with us for a fourth year in 2010. If you would like to advertise in our newsletter or know of others who may be interested, please visit the Advertising Committee page for specifics. All newsletter advertisers are automatically included in our web site at no additional charge.

All revenues from advertising go to defray printing and mailing costs for the newsletter.

Are you a member?

March is Membership Month! Please renew your membership or join the Association as a new member and support our activities. Be sure to provide us with your email address so we can keep you up to date with announcements, event notifications and other communications. If your address changes during the year, please remember to keep us up to date.

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