{"id":1160,"date":"2009-08-24T21:30:32","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T03:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ldswomenofgod.com\/blog\/?p=1160"},"modified":"2012-04-20T17:11:12","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T23:11:12","slug":"rs-community-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reliefsocietywomen.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/24\/rs-community-california\/","title":{"rendered":"RS Community-California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe use our blog as a way of communicating with all sisters in our ward boundaries.\u00a0 Sisters who are inactive, less active, new converts, and non-members.\u00a0\u00a0 At the beginning of the year we gave out refrigerator magnets (of course!) with important dates on it and the blog address.\u00a0 We had extra magnets that we gave sisters on home visits who don&#8217;t come out.\u00a0 We have found that they do indeed visit the blog and so we feel that if for no other reason, the effort and work is worth every minute.\u00a0 We post ward events, noteworthy events, community events, provident living help and links that fall into all these areas.\u00a0 We have cut back on the number of &#8220;invitations&#8221; 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