Re: [AISdiscuss] AIS eRobins

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Clarence, I certainly think your idea deserves consideration. I particularly 
like the title "Membership Growth."   
     Having said that I think any membership campaign has to direct much of 
its focus on how to create the need for AIS membership among the electronically 
wired gardening public.   
     That particulately engaged section of gardening public is definitely not 
going to lessen -- it is going to grow and keep growing. Very recently Linda 
Mann (R 7, I believe) wrote an insightful message on "Iris-talk" where she 
voiced things about membership that echoed observations I had expressed to 
several other Board members.   Another "Iris-talk" recent contributer, a young man 
in his mid-20s, described the electronic generation and reflected on how that 
life style effects and will continue to effect group memberships (AIS as well 
as other group). 
     (I do not visit "Iris-talk," but I am sent cogent comments by people who 
do.)
     We need to find a means of attracting and appealing to the large group 
of individuals who -- more and more and more -- are going to the electronic 
medium for information and mutual interest social interaction.   I believe that 
the "Baby Boomers" -- almost all of who are electronically sophisticated -- are 
our most fertile potentials for membership.
     This is but a light thumbnail sketch of my thinking and concerns.   I 
will be happy to copy both Linda Mann's and the young man's messages and send 
them over Discuss if any are interested.
     Jeanne

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