Vero Beach, FL 1774

Vero Beach, FL Lodge News

Lodge Launches Workgroup to Review Communications Effectiveness

Our new ER, Kathi Miller, has requested that the Communications Committee and interested Lodge members form a workgroup to review the effectiveness of our current communications methods and procedures and to recommend additional ways to enhance our Lodge communications. We are seeking long-standing and new members-and everyone in between-who wants to help our Lodge to succeed.

We held an organizational meeting of the Workgroup in the Banquet Hall on Wednesday, April 9 at 7:20 pm immediately following the Queen of Hearts drawing.  All interested members were invited to attend.

We reviewed the current Lodge Communications System pictured here.

Here are the technologies we'll be looking at in the workgroup.

Existing Methods

  1. Website: veroelks.com 
  2. Virtual Home Page:  go.veroelks.com (redirects to elks.org/1774) 
  3. Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/VeroBeachElks/
  4. Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/BPOE1774
  5. My Elks Mobile App: veroelks.com/MyElks
  6. MailChimp weekly messages - Lodge Lowdown: veroelks.com/lowdown (redirects to current issue)
  7. MailChimp weekly messages - Have You Herd?: veroelks.com/herd (redirects to current issue)
  8. MailChimp messages: Other misc eblasts
  9. SignUpGenius: volunteer system
  10. Google Calendar system: allevents.veroelks.com or events.veroelks.com
  11. Outside sign
  12. Cork Board Flyers
  13. Hallway Bulletin Board
  14. Table Tents
  15. Lodge Polls
  16. **Monthly Newsletter: Elk's Tale
  17. **Lodge Calendar (hardcopy)
  18. **TV display marquee messages in Lounge

**Not in use at this time

At the April 9th meeting, we formed Review Teams to first develop criteria for and then review: 

* Social Media - Items  3 and 4

* My Elks App - Item 5

* eMail (Malchimp)

* Google Calendar

* New Technologies - Bulk SMS/Text marketing

If appropriate, the workgroup should also consider other technologies such as:

  1. US Mail
  2. Other social media such as Instagram
  3. Radio Advertising
  4. Link Tree
  5. Voicemail Broadcast
  6. Bulk voice calls
  7. Automated phone calls 
  8. Bulk Text messaging 
  9. Videos
  10. Podcast
  11. Email autoresponder


If you would like to participate in the workgroup or would like more information, contact Jim Razz at jimrazz@aol.com or text 703-303-2672.