The ways you can sign up for things here at the moment are in something of a muddle. You might have signed up for the ‘Answers’ newsletter, where I talk about the latest blog posts in a twice-monthly email. Maybe you got the free I Ching course at the same time. And you might have signed up separately for free membership as a Friend, which includes the I Ching Community and a collection of I Ching downloads. These two, ‘Answers’ and ‘Friends’, have run completely separately, though lots of people belong to both. Like I said – muddle.
I’m taking the opportunity of the redesign and general shake-up to do some spring cleaning. In future I’ll be inviting everyone to join as a Friend, take advantage of the free membership, and receive ‘Friends’ Notes’.
‘Friends’ Notes’ will be the main newsletter for Clarity, taking over from ‘Answers’. I’ll send it to you twice a month, and it’ll include:
- ‘Answers’ blog updates (that is, it’ll incorporate the current newsletter)
- I Ching Community updates
- and any other I Ching-related news
What happens next
Basically, if you’re already a Friend there’ll be just one link to click if you’d like to get the ‘Friends’ Notes’. (I’ll email you this link later on.) If you receive the ‘Answers’ newsletter but you’ve never signed up for the free membership, I’d encourage you to do so, so you’ll be in the right place to get on the new list. Eventually, I’ll stop sending to the old ‘Answers’ newsletter list and only send updates to people who are signed up to the ‘Friends’ list.
An optional extra
See that ‘Subscribe’ form over to the right of the blog home page? That’s for the blog updates service, which is an automatic email completely separate from ‘Friends’ Notes’. For every two posts I make to the blog, this will automatically email you with their titles, opening pargraphs, and ‘read more’ links. So if you want to hear more often, plunk your name and email in over there.
Controlling your subscriptions
Is easy, as always. There’ll be a single link at the end of each email: click this to get to a page where you can unsubscribe or change the email address where you receive the emails.
So to sum up…
If you’re already signed up as a Friend, there’s nothing to do yet; I’ll email you a confirmation link later on. (You don’t have to click it, but I hope you will.)
If you haven’t yet joined as a Friend, and you’d like to keep getting email newsletters from me, please join.