Continuing in this thread, keeping all membership related discussion together.
We have recently transitioned to an online based system for our membership and donations. The goal was for it only to take a week or two and have a smooth transition. Reality was a little off, but not horrible. While waiting for the transition, we could not process any donations or memberships. After a little over 2 weeks of down time, we (James and I) had some training via Zoom and we started in entering donations. Learning the new system was not too bad, but there were enough differences to make the once routine a little challenging. A week later we had another zoom meeting to figure out how to do the mailing. After working on it every night after work for up to 3 hours (I do not have a 9 to 5, more of a 5a to 6p), I reached a point last week just before our last Zoom meeting that I finally stepped out of the tunnel. I had created all the letters I needed, and was confident in using the new system. This weekend was the last real test, sending renewal notices to 55 members. While it may not seem like a big deal but getting everything to print as expected took time. Now that it is set up, next months should be normal.
Some of the format of the letters changed, most notably the header. #9 is still there, just a different position. And Sheepscot Station was removed, as that is not a recognized mailing address.
Lastly, thank you to James for setting this up. I am not a computer whiz and would still be buried under donation entries if he had not been helping me. He has actually been helping for over a year. I had gotten to the point where I could not do it all. So James took over the data entry for me and made a huge difference in the time I was spending doing membership stuff.
