Eight HOAs west of 441 have organized the West Boca Syndication Service (WBSS) to facilitate the sharing of editorial product.

The primary reason for establishing the WBSS is to make it easier for homeowner and condo association editors to gather enough suitable material to fill up their publications.
It is also intended to provide readers with a larger window about the area they live in.

The concept is to share articles originally written for one’s own HOA or CA newsletter or website that may have crossover appeal for other such publications in West Boca. Examples include topical articles about South County Regional Park, the new county library, area schools, security, transportation matters, changes in our commercial landscape, and just about anything the West Boca Community Council is up to.

Participating HOAs have each designated one person – usually the Board member responsible for communications or the editor of the newsletter or website – to be the liaison to the WBSS.

Each liaison distributes appropriate articles via email as an attached file to all other WBSS members. The recipients in each community then decide whether or not to publish them in their publications.

The WBSS is open to participation by every homeowner and condo association in Boca Raton west of the Turnpike. To join, simply send an email to lakesitenews@aol.com with the contact person’s name, title, email address and association name. The roster of WBSS email addresses will then be emailed back for use when disseminating articles from one’s own community to the rest of the group.

The idea for the WBSS originated when this writer visited a nearby community, picked up its newsletter, and spotted an article he had written for this blog about Fran Reich, the legendary founder of the West Boca Community Council.

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