MGOI Annual Report 2012 - Master Gardeners of Ontario

Communications Committee Report December 2012Members of communications committee Chair Kelly Noel (Ottawa-Carlton MG & Zone Director)NewsletterVice-chair Linda Hugli (Sudbury MG, Zone Director & Webmaster)Dianne & Gary Westlake (Peterborough MGs & Newsletter Editors)Wendy Fletcher (Niagara MG & MGOI Treasurer)Dianne and Gary Westlake continue to do an excellent jobas the editors of our quarterly newsletter What’s GrowingOn. Email notices linking to the newsletter now go outdirectly to 595 members. Previously published newsletterscan be found on our website.MG-listThere are now 406 registered members on the MG-list. Members can join on theirown or send a request to be added. Instructions on how to join have been moved tothe member’s section on mgoi.ca, Master Gardener page - listed as MG Listserveunder Resources.MG-coord listThe email group for coordinators is being used by coordinators to find informationabout how other groups handle various situations. New coordinators are automaticallyadded to this list as they take on the job. Past coordinators can remain members ifthey wish to. They can unsubscribe at any time using the link at the bottom of anymessage.Website (Linda Hugli - Webmaster)Our website has averaged more than 4000 unique visitors per month during the pastyear. The Canadian Master Gardener Conference page has been by far the mostfrequently visited page. Sub-domainsAt the end of the calendar year, there were 15 groups with a website in the mgoi.caspace (Ottawa, Sudbury, Etobicoke, Rideau 1000 Islands, Guelph & WellingtonCounty, Mississauga, Lanark, Cambridge, Niagara, Halton, Kitchener, Simcoe County,Lake Simcoe South, Sarnia, and North Bay). The Kitchener group will be migrating toa new independent website in April 2013. There is a link to each of these websites on17