Re: 2014 AIS Awards

[andi rivarola <0b5865f51@rewrite.aisboard.org>]

Jim, the Awards information was posted on the AIS website first, and it
took more time, perhaps some 8 hours for a post to appear in the
Encyclopedia. Bob was encountering some coding issues that took longer than
expected. Anyone who saw the post on our website could have shared the
information on any social media outlet... and they did. Not sure that it
got into News & Notes. If it did I have not seen it.

I was not involved with the awards pre-publication talks so I wasn't aware
that the AIS website was about to publish this. It would be nice in the
future for all publication sources (electronic and/or printed) to be
involved, not only News & Notes, the website and Encyclopedia. Kathleen and
myself should have been part of the conversation so we have time to prepare
for our respective jobs and discern what type of information would be best
suited for our separate mediums. When I saw the post on Iris Lovers I
rushed to put publish on the Blog and subsequently on Facebook (this occurs
automatically). For best results, I only publish early in the morning PST,
thus it got published Thursday morning.

Hope this helps.

Andi Rivarola


On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Jim Morris <1005@rewrite.aisboard.org>
wrote:

> 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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