Monthly Archives: November 2020

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Website

Website Updates

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March 2023:

Membership expiration dates. There has been some general confusion about membership expirations. When CSKMS moved to a new Membership plugin in 2021, it reset the membership Order History date to 2021. This caused members to think their membership had expired early. If you look at Membership Level History – it does show the correct purchase, renewal, and expiration dates. Sorry for the confusion there.

Additionally, the site was configured to that when a member renewed their membership, it would reset the expiration date 1 or 3 years from the date of purchase, versus adding 1 or 3 years to the length of the membership. Working with the membership plugin vendor, we have adjusted these settings to add time instead of resetting the expiration date. Hopefully, this will alleviate confusion.

February 2023:

Updated Member Directory – More secure. Allows for user avatars. Has an interactive map, not working fully with search.

All forms updated.

December 2022:

To better manage our email communications and provide timely replies (and avoid the dreaded SPAM folder), we have created a Contact Us form. This form allows people to contact the CSKMS, and an alert will go to three current board members who will route the message to the appropriate resource or address directly. We removed many of the direct email links on the site and replaced them with the new Contact Us form.

April 2021:

We are slowly updating our forms on the website. The new forms will have stronger SPAM protection and be reviewed to ensure correct information is captured. This update will also modernize the look and feel of our forms and ensure they work on desktop, tablet and mobile devices.

January 2021:

We updated our system for membership signup and renewal. This will impact how you sign on to the site. If you experience issues signing onto the site please email Membership or Web. Future benefits of this update coming soon.

November 2020:

Added Printer Content Icon to pages. Miss the PDF version of the site? Not you can click on this Printer ICON in the top right of most pages and the website will reformat to provide you a printer-friendly version of the page’s content. Power users can make a PDF from there.

Updated Website links from Red to Blue. They were red, and so were our section headers.  To make it easier to understand what a link is, we are now following standard website conventions.

Improved Navigation Menu. Shorter dropdown menus and better categorizations. The menu bar also sticks to the top as you scroll.

Updated website hosting plan. This should provide better website performance (faster!).

Event

2020 Member Event Feedback

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Here’s what you said about the event. We are blushing.

Ladies and Gentleman. Thank you so much for putting this event together for everyone.  I have been on many Zoom calls, but this one was the best, well organized, and undoubtedly a lot of teamwork. I was impressed with the structure, like tying the board members’ intros with the “giveaways”–what a great idea!

The trivia game was “right on” and easy for everyone to participate in. The demos were varied with many skill levels , and good videos.

It was so nice to be able to get questions asked and answered in real time. The “big giveaway” was so generous! Thank you for giving so much of yourselves to make this a rewarding event for everyone.

Donna M.

Thank you so much for a great Zoom get together! We enjoyed it and it was nice to put a face to the participants as a lot of them are customers.

Dave Lord and Kathy C.

Dear Kathleen and all at the CSKMS that worked so hard to provide us with this fabulous meeting/crank-in.  The presentations and demonstrations were wonderful and I commend you on the wonderful efforts that you put forward to make this event a total success.  Thank you and thank you to all those vendors that donated to this CSKMS event. Well done!! My husband and I are still quarantined with Covid, so this day was a breath of spring!!!

Bonnie C.

The CSKMS virtual meeting was a wonderful experience. All of you worked so hard to put this on. What teamwork. It was obvious that everyone had a niche to fulfill with their expertise – and you were all successful at it. Those door prizes were definitely a big part of the success and I thank you for including my books.

Jenny Deters

Thank you so much. That is great. I had a great time watching today. You all did an amazing job.

Connie V.

Thank you so much for yesterday.  I was really surprised to hear my name called because I so seldom win anything.  I hope the board plans to do more virtual meetings in the future.  The one thing the pandemic is teaching us is that we can still see and hear each other via a screen if not in person.  I’m looking forward to more of this sort of thing.

Anita P.

It sure was a great day, fun to hang out with like-minded people, see how others work their machines and the museum tour was so informative! I loved hearing the story about Nan and her ability to make so many socks over her lifetime, soooo inspiring! I’d love to see a pattern of her sock, I was intrigued!

Nadia W.

Thanks so much!  Enjoyed today’s event very much.  Still a newbie with lots of ribber fear, but at least the ribber is in the same room and out of the box from under the stairs.

Julie P.

Because of Covid our group has been meeting via Zoom – which our “far away” members seem to like, but gosh we do miss seeing people in person. Thank you again for all the time and effort CSKMS put into this crank in. It is appreciated!

Joanne C.

Thank you for all the work you guys did to make today such a success! Looking forward to shopping!

Renee C.

I’m thankful I’ve joined the CSKMS community, I found a whole lot of my kind of peeps!! I can’t wait for a future event!!

Joseph R.

Was delighted with the first annual Zoom meeting/crank in-ish event. For those of us way out here in the hinterlands it was fun and informative. I liked meeting all the officers virtually.

Ronnie W.