New BAM web site

Welcome to the New Boulder Aquatic Masters web site. After 5 years of the old site we decided to try and bring BAM a little more up to date. As you can see the site has a fresh new look and feel with the following features:

1. Images
2. Social media using both Twitter and a blog

• Newsletter and email capabilities - still pending

Images
The photos you see were taken from the BAM Beginner’s Swim Meet last December. Andrew Webb helped BAM out at the meet (after Amy twisted his arm a little). Thanks to Andrew for his time and expert eye in capturing these moments. We will be adding additional images at future BAM events.

Social Media
We heard many people complain about not getting information about pool closings or workout cancelations. BAM will be using Twitter to help overcome this. Twitter is a short one-to-many way of communicating. Text’s are limited to 140 characters to allow delivery via text message. Updates about BAM workouts will be available from either a cell phone or via the web. This should help getting the information out much quicker. Several people will also have access to update the Twitter information. This should also alleviate any bottlenecks that occurred in the past.

New BAM blog. Many people have inquired about BAM’s status.  The last most people heard was three years ago when the organization was not sure of its future. In short, BAM is doing fine. The blog will be a mechanism to communicate more about what is happening behind the scenes. This should keep everyone better informed. It will also allow you a mechanism to voice your questions or concerns.

Newsletter & E-mail
The new site will have the ability to produce a web (HTML) based newsletter. It will also enable us to send out HTML based e-mails. Our current e-mail process goes through Club Assistant and we can only send e-mail in textual format with PDF attachments. While this gets the information out, it has its limitations. We will be moving to more web based e-mail information along with using the web for publishing more information.

Thanks
Finally, kudos need to be extended to Randy Cox for the old site’s layout and MJ McCoy for its maintenance during this time. Also, thanks to BJ Gumkowski at Clear Pixel Design for the new site’s layout and design.

We hope you enjoy the change.  Let us know what you think of the new site

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