Re: 2014 AIS Awards

["Jim Morris" <1005@rewrite.aisboard.org>]

I also wish to thank Bob, John, Gerry and Wayne for their coordinated  
effort.  I also learned from last year that social media is as fast as a  rumor. 
 This year I called and congratulated all the winners on Sunday and  Monday 
and asked them not to post to Facebook until Monday, August 18 to give  our 
folks time to get the winners posted on our web site and wiki encyclopedia  
and News & Notes.  Also, I did not inform them of any winners except  their 
own (even though most asked).  And no AM nor HM winners were  contacted at 
all this year except for the Walther Cup winner.  
 
Where did this "Iris Lovers Facebook" group get their news?   Bob?  Andi?
 
Jim Morris
President
American Iris Society
 
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In a message dated 8/14/2014 1:19:02 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
101p@rewrite.aisboard.org writes:

I wish  to thank John Jones, Gerry Snyder, and Wayne Messer for the 
coordination of  effort involved in announcing the awards. While not perfect yet we 
did do  better than last year and got out the announcement to our members 
the same day  as it leaked to Facebook.

I could make the following observations. It  would be nice to have been 
working on this during the time at which the  president is making the calls to 
the winners. As it was, I felt pressure not  to delay its upload. So I 
worked for about ten hours straight writing the code  that would provide all the 
links. When John and I pasted it up on the website  and wiki respectably at 
the same time, I discovered that some of the code did  not translate and I 
had to spend a few more hours fixing it before we could  send out News & 
Notes pointing our members to it. During this time lag it  was discovered on the 
website and eagerly announced on Iris Lovers Facebook  group. Nonetheless 
it still went out to our membership the same day with News  & Notes. So I 
failed in it being absolutely first to our members but we  did do better than 
last year. And I have received several thank you s for  getting it out 
quickly. In this day and age it seems a few hours is an  eternity.  Bob Pries


----- Original Message -----
From:  "John Jones" <100h@rewrite.aisboard.org>
To:  aisdiscuss@aisboard.org
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2014 9:13:43  PM
Subject: [AISdiscuss] 2014 AIS Awards

The 2014 AIS Awards listing  is up on the AIS website  at:

http://www.irises.org/About_Irises/Awards_Surveys/AIS_Awards.html

Thanks

John
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