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Our kickoff meeting that was held at the Depot on Wednesday the 15^th was a success. We had a great turnout. If you were unable to make it to this meeting, there will be plenty of other opportunities to attend future events.

We discussed how we can best use the Chamber website and social media to promote our small businesses in the area. We discussed having more networking events for our community to participate. We also discussed future partnership opportunities within the county.

The Chamber's goal is to help further the interests of small business in the local area, and if we aren’t doing that, we are failing our mission. Your involvement is crucial in further shaping our future.

We also had our business afterhours event Thursday the 16^th, at the Blind Pig by College Station Rd. in Athens. This was a fun event, and we met even more great people in the community. This will be an event we will have on monthly basis. The location will change each month.

Keep an eye out on the Chamber calendar for more opportunities to meet your community and get involved.

We hear it all the time: “I didn’t know there was software to help us manage our membership!”

If you have members and have to deal with all the tasks that come with it – such as member renewals, membership directories, events, newsletters and more – there’s a membership management solution for that!

At many small membership organizations, the volunteers and staff are trying to do a lot with a little (e.g., limited resources and budgets). It’s good to know that there are technology solutions that can help get your entire team on the right track and reduce wasted time and frustration, so you can focus on growing your membership and meeting your mission.

We've created an in-depth look at membership management software – what it is, how it works, what it costs and how it can help you build a website, connect with your supporters and grow your membership, while saving you time and effort.

Using the blog gadget, you can add a blog to your Wild Apricot site to provide timely updates and information to your membership.

By using Recent blog posts, you can display a list of the most recent blog posts, with links to the full posts. The list will include the date of each post and the name of the poster – with the name linking to their profile if available.

For instructions on inserting, moving, and deleting gadgets, see Gadgets.

You can create as many different blogs as you wish. You can limit access to a blog by placing it on a restricted page. If you make the page public, you can still use the blog gadget settings to control functionality for visitors and members.

You can read more about setting up blogs on our Blog help page.

If you are looking on more information on how to use a blog, you can find it here.

This is another sample blog entry. Depending on your readers' access permissions, they can comment on your posts, and reply to comments.

You can learn more about setting up blog pages on our Blog help page.