President's Corner
Rolling Out Our New Name
by John Shenot
I want to update everyone on three of the most important things we've done since changing our name to Northern Colorado Bird Alliance in February.
First, this newsletter now uses our new name. For perhaps a year, we will continue to note on the newsletter, the website, and in other appropriate places that Northern Colorado Bird Alliance was formerly Fort Collins Audubon Society. But in a year or so, we will drop that name completely.
Second, we have changed the name on our bank account. This means we can no longer cash checks made out to Fort Collins Audubon Society or FCAS. If you are renewing your membership or donating, please make checks out to Northern Colorado Bird Alliance. Otherwise, we will have to return your check uncashed and ask you to send a new one. (By the way, our mailing address has not changed except that it, too, is under the new name. We are told that mail addressed to FCAS will still be delivered for some time, but it's best to use the new name!)
Third, we have registered two new internet domain names, nocobirdalliance.org and northerncoloradobirdalliance.org. We intend to use the former and shorter version primarily, but registering both names prevents anyone else from using the latter/longer version. If you type either of these names into a web browser, you will go to our website. If you type the old domain name, fortcollinsaudubon.org, you will still get to our website for some time, but eventually that address will no longer work. So, we advise you to start using nocobirdalliance.org right away.
Big things are still to come: We will be changing our social media accounts to acknowledge our new name, and we also plan to revamp our website. (Some of this may have already happened between the time I wrote this ar-ticle and when you are reading it.) The Board is also discussing whether to create organizational email addresses, which would entail an ongoing cost, but would allow our volunteers to stop using their personal email addresses for chapter business.
