Tom Lau
Nov 17, 20151 min
Finally letting the cat out of the bag. GSBF posted yet another great write up about these winners and I'm going to steal its formatting because its done exactly how I would have done it!
Every year Golden State Bonsai Federation (GSBF) Golden Statements (GS) Magazine hosts the best club website and club newsletter contests. It is an opportunity to judge club websites and newsletters for their quality, communications of club activities and information, and creativity of the webmasters and editors throughout GSBF.
Best Club Newsletter
Best Club Small Newsletter: (Four pages or less)
Bonsai Club of Santa Barbara
Editor: Joe Olson
Best Club Website
Best Club Website Under One Year:
Baiko-en Bonsai Kenkyukai <-- that's us!!!!
http://www.baikoenbonsai.com/
Webmaster: Thomas Lau <-- that's me!!!
Best Club Website Over One Year:
East Bay Bonsai Society
http://www.eastbaybonsai.org/
Webmaster: Michael Hylton
All the above winners received this beautifully framed reproduction block print from GSBF.
All I can say is this was not my goal when I started this. I wanted to get this art form into the digital age. Especially, when this club has so much history and we did not have a way to outreach to the general population and other bonsai club circle. But, I have to say thank you for everybody that support my crazy idea of putting a website together for our 50+ year old club.