Boilermakers launch new Web site

New design promises more information and greater functionality

In April, the Boilermakers International launched a new Web site. It’s better looking – that’s for sure – and you’ll find it is also has more information. Everything the old site contained is here – and a lot more.

The new design is intended to make it easy for all parts of the Brotherhood to post news and information relevant to their geographic areas and industries. Every geographic section, every industrial division, every lodge, every department, and every resource or related organization is accounted for on the new Web site.

Take a look around. Get to know the new site. Let us know what you think.

The Digital Reporter

In addition to the expanded content of boilermakers.org, visitors are able to preview the Digital Reporter, a new publication made necessary by convention action in 2006. At the 2006 convention, the report of the Committee on the Official Publication required the Communication Department to create a digital version of the official publication to save the International money on printing and postage.

For the next few weeks, all browsers to this Web site will have access to the Digital Reporter so you can learn how it works and what it offers. The current Digital Reporter is simply a digital version of the most recent Boilermaker Reporter.

Beginning in May, the Digital Reporter will be published once a month, compared to once every three months for the printed Reporter. That means subscribers to the Digital Reporter will get news about the Boilermakers sooner than print subscribers. Popular sections like letters to the editor, death notices, and local news will appear in the Digital Reporter long before the print edition appears.

In addition, because the Digital Reporter will not have the same space and weight limitations of the printed and mailed version, it can contain more information and more photos. Many stories that never make it into the print edition of the Reporter because of lack of space or time will appear in the Digital Reporter.

During this introductory stage, all visitors to this Web site will be able to read the Digital Reporter. After this introductory stage, members may subscribe to the Digital Reporter and receive it in their email once a month instead of the printed Boilermaker Reporter.

Whether you subscribe to the Digital Reporter or continue to receive the printed Reporter, you will still be able to download a PDF version of the printed Reporter once it goes to press.

Go ahead. Check out the Digital Reporter and get a glimpse of the future of the Boilermakers’ Official Publication.

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