Matt Springer has been giving presentations around San Francisco about home earthquake preparedness since 2008 (for more information about the presentation, go to his earthquake preparedness website). For those who cannot attend in person, a streaming version of the presentation is available online. This Quaketips blog is devoted to posts ranging from technical "how-to" articles to more philosophical "should-you" topics. New articles will be posted at most about once a month, so people who subscribe won't be subjected to lots of e-mail.

The suggestions contained in this website and in Matt Springer's presentations will substantially reduce the chances of an earthquake causing damage or injury, but cannot guarantee that problems will not still occur due to factors including but not limited to extreme seismic conditions, unexpected structural problems, bracing material flaws, or inadequate installation. This material is based on personal experience, research, and discussion with safety experts; Matt Springer does not have an official emergency management background other than standard community volunteer training. The information contained herein does not necessarily reflect the views of UCSF or the San Francisco Public Library.

Friday, June 18, 2021

IMPORTANT changes coming soon to Quaketips e-mail subscriptions; subscribers please read this

Quaketips is alive and well, even though I haven't had a chance to write new articles since January.  However, the e-mail subscription system is changing and this affects all current subscribers.  Until now, this blogging platform (Blogger) has used Feedburner to collect subscriber e-mail addresses to automatically send new articles to them, but Google is ending this functionality at the end of June.

Therefore, I'm experimenting with alternatives, and I will try to use Mailchimp, which strikes me as a very responsible service with robust options to report spam.  In setting up Mailchimp, I have turned off ALL of the options to track clicks or collect any information about what e-mail recipients are doing.

Because I have promised for years to not do anything with e-mail addresses that subscribers provide, I decided to not move everyone to Mailchimp en masse myself.  Instead, in the spirit of using an "opt in" rather than "opt out" approach, all e-mail subscribers will have to go to the blog itself and put their e-mail address into the little e-mail subscription box again, just like what you did initially.  I don't think there is a verification e-mail step for Mailchimp like there was for the old system; I think you just enter your e-mail and you're signed up.

Apologies in advance but I'm a novice at this and there might be some extra or duplicate messages that get sent out; please just bear with me as I work through it.

I hope you have all been enjoying Quaketips and that you'll take this extra step to show up on the new subscription list!  


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