The Community Associations Institute (CAI) has launched a free email newsletter, "Community Associations Institute Online News." This monthly newsletter provides news and information of interest to homeowners who live in a community, condo or co-op run by an association, and those who themselves participate in running their community associations.

According to Carol Marty, CAI's senior director of marketing, "CAI Online News provides information and tools that can help communities be more effective. For example, our inaugural issue highlights tips on how to transform long, confrontational and ineffective meetings into short, painless and productive ones."

Each issue of CAI Online News will focus on topics of interest to those who participate in or run community associations. Each issue will direct users to the best online articles on community associations. A regular feature will be the popular "Ask the Expert" Question and Answer, presenting critical questions that come up in community life or management, and expert answers.

To see a copy of the newsletter, and for signup information, visit the CAI Online News information page or subscribe directly by sending a blank email to the following email address CommunityAssociation-subscribe@egroups.com.

The Community Associations Institute is a nonprofit association created in 1973 to educate and represent the nation's 205,000 community associations—condominium associations, homeowner associations and cooperatives. CAI members include homeowners, associations and the professionals who provide products and services to them.