I’ve read a couple of comments asking about communication with AGLOCO and with other Members. I do have a few thoughts on this.

AGLOCO Communicating with Members

We realize some Members want more communication than others from AGLOCO. Here is some of our thinking on this:

We will try to keep AGLOCO emails to Members down to one (sometimes two) a month and make them meaningful. If they are too frequent, many members will probably stop opening them (as most people do when they receive too many emails). We also worry that sending out too many would toe the line of spamming. As we’ve stated before, AGLOCO stands firmly against spam. Ray Everett-Church, our Chief Privacy Officer and Spam Czar, would probably terminate my account if I started sending a constant stream of email to Members. No joke.

On the AGLOCO website, we set up a space on each Members account page for update messages. We have not activated this feature yet and plan to start using it later this month. We also will be making more active changes elsewhere on the site now that the new servers are functioning. This includes the blog referral page we announced earlier and new multiple language blog pages in place of the single ones we now feature. The referral center and FAQ pages will also be updated and improved.

This official blog will be used more actively than in the past and will be oriented more for the very active builders, as they will be the most frequent visitors. Still, we will need to build a section to help new AGLOCO Members who look to the blog for answers.

The Viewbar will eventually become our most common means of communication with AGLOCO Members. We will be able to tailor it to individual Member needs and have an accurate gauge of whether or not the message has been looked at. This will not be built into the first release of the Viewbar so the existing forms of communication will be used for the near term.

Regarding our desire to best hear the issues our Members are having and meet your needs, individual questions pertaining to your account should be directed to This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it . We have several full-time people who answer most of this mail. For instance, questions concerning individual referrals or extended referrals not showing up in your account should go there (so far all of these have been resolved on an individual basis – please note that a new referral will not show up in your account until they ‘confirm’ their email verification).