At the request of the All Breeds Club Committee, the AKC has developed a tool to allow clubs to "opt-in" to having information about their club shared with new registrants. The primary goals of this program are to give clubs a communication channel to potential new members as well as alerting a new puppy owner to club and training resources in their area. Your club's name, location, contact information including email and/or website and/ or telephone number will be provided to each registrant three weeks after registration has been completed. The information you provide, including dates and location of club meetings will also be made available on the AKC website on the Club information portal. However, during the initial phase of this program we will not send out emails until we have enough clubs opting-in to this program. We will send you another email when enough clubs have signed up for this program and we are ready to send out the first email. We hope you will find this program useful in the recruitment of new club members and new members of the dog fancy. As of July 21, 2009, of the 1008 clubs eligible to participate, 47 clubs have opted-in to the AKC® Club Outreach program. ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2008. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://showgsd.org NATIONAL BLOG - http://gsdnational.blogspot.com/ ============================================================================