CGIN

The membership and marketing listserve was formed in 2003 at the Let’s SOAR (Share Our Abundant Resources) workshop at the CCMA conference.

Founded and sponsored by the CoCoMaMas (& PaPas), the purpose of this listserve is to facilitate discussion and exchange of ideas and information about co-op membership and marketing at our food co-ops in order to improve the results of that work. Listserve subscribers are Membership and Marketing Managers and staff who are paid employees of CGIN members.

Subscription cost is:
Enhanced members: free
Basic members: $30 per year per e-mail address

To request information or join

• For more information on this listserve contact the CGIN office.
• To join, contact your CGIN contact person and ask them to approve your CGIN user account for the Membership and Marketing listserve. Once you are approved log into CGIN > My Account > Edit > Mailing list subscription, and select Subscribe for the appropriate listserve. Or watch our help video on managing specialized listserve subscriptions.
• If you are the CGIN contact person, watch our help video on Contact person listserve maintenance steps to subscribe.

To send a message to the MandM list

• Address an e-mail message to MandM-list@cgin.coop.
• We request that all subscribers include their name, co-op, and e-mail address at the end of your message.

To leave the list

• If you have a CGIN user account, log into CGIN > My Account > Edit > Mailing list subscription, and select Unsubscribe for the appropriate listserve. Or watch our help video on managing specialized listserve subscriptions

• If you do not have a CGIN user account, contact the CGIN office and ask to be removed from the MandM listserve.

Out of office messages

If you are planning on using an “Out of office” message while you are away, we ask that you temporarily unsubscribe from the listserve. *

• If you have a CGIN user account, log into CGIN > My Account > Edit > Mailing list subscription, and select Unsubscribe for the appropriate listserve. Or watch our help video on managing specialized listserve subscriptions
• If you do not have a CGIN user account, contact the “CGIN office“mailto:admin@cgin.coop and ask to be temporarily removed.
• If you do not temporarily unsubscribe and your out of office message is sent out on the listserve we’ll temporarily unsubscribe you.

Archives

An archive of the membership and marketing listserve is also available to CGIN members.

Basic listserve guidelines:

Subscribers are welcome to:

• send out any message via the list about matters related to their work as membership and marketing staff members of their co-ops. Subscriber’s messages are sent out directly to the list. There is no screening of list messages.

The M and M listserve may NOT be used to:

• advertisements or solicitations.
• circulating such things as petitions, a mass mailing requesting that e-mail messages be sent to someone, or a “chain letter”.
• forward warning messages without reliable confirmation — e.g. a warning about mass computer flaws, rampant medical problems, etc

We expect all subscribers:

• to be respectful of one another and others’ viewpoints in their postings.
• keep in mind that the listserve is a public forum and your message will go to all subscribers exactly as you send it.
• use more descriptive subject lines and to change the subject line when the substance is different.
• use good judgment in sending messages out via the list.
• identify yourself, e-mail address, co-op/organization and city/state.