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 individuals who are currently employed at a food co-op and engaged in membership and marketing work.

Subscription cost is $30 per e-mail address per year.

To request information or join

For more information or to join this listserve, contact Peg Nolan.

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

• To leave the M and M listserve, contact the CGIN office.

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.

Vacation messages – if you are planning on using a vacation message while you are out of the office, we ask that you notify the CGIN office. Auto responses are sent out every time a message is sent, so while you are away, your fellow listserve readers will be receiving an automated reply from you with every new listserve message. Please notify the CGIN office in advance if you will be away and need to use an automated notification service or if you simply do not want listserve messages to pile up in your inbox. If you forget and we get automated replies to the whole listserve, the CGIN office will temporary unsubscribe your email address while you are away (and send you a message notifying you that this has happened). Then simply send the office a message letting us know you have returned and need to be re-subscribed. Note that you can also easily review all listserve conversations while unsubscribed by reviewing the MandM listserve archive (information above).