WEBSITES, NEWSLETTER & MAILING LISTS
In this page you will find recommendations on how to manage your local community and ensure you are following best practices in data protection.
CEC local groups on the websites
You are welcome to encourage your local network to join your City Club for free on the CEC website and on CE Connect. In addition, encourage them to join the conversation on CE Connect, CEC Facebook , the CEC LinkedIn group and on your CEC local Meetup group if you have one.
CEC & CE Connect
On CE Connect, you can message, chat, share and store files with all your registered club members. You can also post about your clubs events to your club members only or to the whole registered CEC membership. A guide to using CE Connect is here. Links to your city clubs CE Connect space are located under your club city information page, in your club’s description and under the club leaders profile.
City Leads are made Host’s of their Club’s space on CE Connect, so they have creative control over their space.
On the CEC website, you can add your events to your club home page or submit your event details under “add an event” which is displayed for the entire CEC membership.
Newsletter – CEC global
CEC members are asked to sign up the CEC global newsletter when they sign up as a CEC member. Those on the global mailing list will receive:
- A welcome email that explains CEC, links to tools and resources and events.
- An email that invites them to join their CEC local chapter.
- The CEC monthly Newsletter with updates and news on the club and industry news on circular economy.
- Adhoc mailings with the latest circular economy news.
If you have any news, content or event information you would like to submit to the newsletter, please contact the CEC info@circulareconomyclub.com
Newsletter – CEC local
If you would like to send a personalized newsletter to your own CEC network, you can do so by creating your own CEC local newsletter. As per the CEC license, CEC is not responsible for how data is managed at a local level. However, we strongly advice to use a professional platform to send newsletters and store your local contact list in a safe platform (e.g.: Mailchimp newsletter platform).
Your local newsletter should have only the purpose of contacting your network about your CEC local news or circular economy updates. Your newsletter should:
a) Be sent only to those contacts that signed up to it
b) Have an “Unsubscribe” option
c) Include your contact details such as a name, web address or postal address. You will not share or sell the contact lists in any case.
When you are no longer a CEC Organizer, you should either pass on the contact list to the next CEC Organizer or the CEC team, or delete the contact list.
In the CEC Newsroom (under Resources) you have a list of past CEC newsletters that can serve as templates for your CEC local news.
Event registration lists (e.g.: Eventbrite lists)
When you host an event, most likely you will have access to the emails of the event participants. All guidelines described above apply to event registration lists such as Eventbrite.
Please add a disclaimer to any of your events that states “The CEC YOUR-CITY Organizer reserves the right to use the images of the event for promotion purposes. The organizers also reserve the right to use your contact data for future contacts regarding CEC activities in our city. Your data will not be shared with any third party. If you do not want to be kept up to date with CEC YOUR-CITY activities, please send us an email to YOUR-EMAIL and we will unsubscribe you from the list.”
We recommend keeping the email list either in the Eventbrite platform or adding it to your Mailchimp/newsletter contact list where it will be kept safe.
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