Mysterious Website Launch

Blue Giantlemen,

Training is back tonight and with the weather looking fantastic for the weekend, we look towards Old Ignations on Saturday at BGS. Get excited and get to training tonight, it’s going to be special. We have a great night planned for a few frothy chops after training tonight where $30 will get you fed watered and entertained way more than any whiteboard session could and I assure you that those can be entertaining!

Entertainment is a mystery but could be anything from a comedian, circus, mini motor bikes, a movie night, its very hard to say but only those who show will know. Cash payment is preferred tonight.

We are very pleased to announce the launch of the new Colleagues Website.
www.colleaguesrugby.com.au

The new design and features include:
– A fresh modern look with new set of images supporting events and promotions
– A new home page which has the most common content visible without need for further navigation.
– Optimised view of the website to suit your mobile device through  “responsive” design
– Easy ability to edit and update content in rich text including posting alert messages
– Ability to automatically add members and supporters to our email mailing list
– Online access to the rich history of the club through  Annual Reports from 1955 (note 1987 and 2000 missing – do you have them ?)
– Live Twitter feed that is automatically updated on the website home page in real-time (eg scores, wet weather)
– Links to social media – Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter
– Simpler menu to navigate and find more detail
– Ability to order “Sky Blue Winters – 80 Year History of the club online
– Easy Access to the photo gallery

A very special thanks to Mike “Langers” Langford for working overtime to enable this great new capability for the club which will make us not only the benchmark in Subbies rugby on the field, on the sideline (with our ladies) but also on the web.

The clubs next focus is to expand our Colleagues Networking offering with a focus to  make it easy for Colleagues of all generations to find each other, connect, seek assistance or mentoring and finally post employment opportunities or requests. LinkedIn will be the tool via our Woollahra Colleagues Group. It will be easy for all to register and use. Watch this space for more on this. In the meantime if you already use LinkedIn then please join the Woollahra Colleagues Group.

We are also on a drive to increase our mailing list and would ask you to forward this email to as many colleagues as you know, letting them know about the new site and asking them to sign up online for our newsletter.

We also have a new twitter account @colleaguesrugby which should shortly be tweeting the great results of the club.

Finally, we welcome your feedback and suggestions. Please email to member@colleaguesrugby.com.au

Gents, the comp is very short of Refs so in attempt to help ease this burden on NSW Rugby and help us get games on, there is a course we would like to put some guys through in an attempt to help us with this situation come Saturdays. Please follow the link below to sign up for this free course.

10am-3pm

Sun 20 July

Moore Park

Cost: Free

Register here: //myrugby.rugby.com.au/MyRugby/course_show.asp?program_key=%7b5971032F-F335-40D7-89D2-E8BBBD285FE7%7d

We need you to help us market refereeing to your members (and friends, parents and spectators). The upside for you is that ultimately we will be able to cover all of your games. We believe retired players (or players who have an injury which precludes contact) make good referees.

Remember – NSW Rugby Referees are experiencing extreme difficulty appointing to all games in the Suburban calendar, with barely enough referees to cover all fixtures from week to week. The situation has reached a critical point where we need more referees ASAP.