[Accrs] ACCRS groups.io Account and Getting Members to Sign-Up - IMPORTANT

[Alameda County Central Railroad Society]

As a group, we seem to be gradually moving to using groups.io versus the ACCRS email reflector.  We currently have 19 ACCRS members on the groups.io.  From looking at the list, it would appear that most of the active ACCRS members are on groups.io. I am sending this message to both the email reflector and the groups.io account so some may get it twice. Please review as this will impact future communications.

For members not yet on, please go to groups.io, create an account with your email (free and easy) and join the ACCRS group https://accrs.groups.io/g/main. If we can get all our members onto groups.io, we can eliminate the current email reflector and have a single group communications vehicle.  For those of us on Outlook, this will eliminate receiving each message as text attachments. Groups.io provides the same email forwarding function and much more. It includes topics, sequenced replies, calendars, file storage, and other group-oriented features. Having a single platform will reduce confusion and make sure we all see all the club information.  There are also both an HO and O scale sub-groups that can be used for scale specific discussions within the larger group.  The O scale team has been using this for the last year to interact and share documents. If you have a problem with getting onto groups.io, send me an email or call 4088325618.  If there is interest, we can cover at the next business meeting (on May 6th) and anyone with a smart phone can go through the account creation and login process. If there are members who do not have a smart phone but have a computer at home, let me know and I will help you get an account at that meeting or by phone/video. I would also propose we consider the timing for moving to groups.io as the only ACCRS messaging solution at the meeting.

This is the list of members that are currently active on the ACCRS groups.io:

Dean Lewis
Jerry Nicholson
Dick Stark
Kyle Cairel
Ed Carreno
Sean Daniel
Gary Lewis - The Pres
Marc S
Chad Linke
Steve Bull
Jim Schneider
Linda Bissum
Jim Hague
Jere Ingram
Gary Barbano
Linke family
Robert Lopez
Jason Knapic
Phil Edholm

For those of you not on groups.io, this is the ACCRS page on the website, we seem to be getting a new topic/post about every 3-5 days at this point:

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Notice how easy it is to find information and review the topics? There is also a calendar and other functions.



Phil Edholm
Mobile: 4088325618

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