One of our primary methods of electronic communication is via standard email. If you do not receive OFDA members email alerts, please visit our homepage and complete the contact form under the Contact Us button. You must be signed up and request to receive our notices, we never just “add” people to our email lists. Once you know you have signed up, we want to ensure that you receive the emails that we send.
In order to receive all of the OFDA communication on a consistent basis, please make sure that you have the OFDA mail servers “white-listed” and/or added to your Outlook contact file. All email providers and email software handle this in different ways so there is no one solution that will work for all. You may need to contact your ISP in order to have them adjust their settings too. If you need help with your specific ISP, please call me at 614-560-5182 and I will do my best to help. Being the most popular email client, I can provide instructions for Outlook, which should help many of you. In Outlook, you have the option to add domains to the Safe Sender List. Specifically in Outlook 2007, go to Actions, Junk Email, Junk Email Options and select the Safe Senders tab at the top of the window. Select the Add button and input the following domains: @ofdaonline.org and @myofda.org. In other versions of Office and other email clients, you are looking for something similar to what I described above to enter the domain names to a “safe” list.
In addition to email, we have also joined the social media revolution and started facebook and twitter accounts for OFDA. You can follow our twitter account by visiting http://www.twitter.com/ofdaonline and selecting the Follow button. Or you can text follow ofdaonline to 40404 on your mobile phone to follow us on the go.
On Facebook, you will find our page at http://www.facebook.com/ofdaonline . Please visit our facebook page and “Like” us. We will be utilizing these social media sites more and more in the future to communicate about events, news and other items we think will be of interest to you.
As always, OFDA is here to assist you with your use of technology. If you have any suggestions, comments or ideas, please share them with us via www.ofdaonline, Twitter or Facebook. Alternatively, you can email me directly at Bob@OFDAonline.org or call me at (614) 560-5182.