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Most interesting because I have never met a daylily person who
made such a claim. To the contrary, in the St. Louis area there have been
several people comment to me that the Iris Society folks seem to be better
organized than daylily folks who have two separate local clubs that fight with
each other, and seemingly can't agree on anything except how nice the flowers
are and what a good display there is at Missouri Botanical Garden. I do
agree that their national organization appears to be well organized and that
their publication is quite good.
Jim Morris
In a message dated 2/14/2016 2:18:36 P.M. Central Standard Time,
100h@rewrite.aisboard.org writes:
Bob
Pries wrote:
" Of course I have met lots of daylily people who were
once members of AIS and who left because they are not impressed that we have
our act together. "
What would really be helpful would be to know what
those individual's ideas of "act together" meant. Nebulous comments like that,
while informative, are not particularly helpful. We can only guess, but then
we are the ones that are still here and see value in our society. Comments
from those who left carry much more weight.
Thanks,
John
Jones
----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Pries
<101p@rewrite.aisboard.org>
To: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org
Sent: Sun,
14 Feb 2016 13:13:31 -0600 (CST)
Subject: [AISdiscuss] Videos at
Convention
Can you film a video? Is so we need your help at
convention. I remember talking to a convention goer that told me he films
weddings. I would hope that several people with these skills would come
forward and help in even small ways. In Portland someone, thank goodness,
video-taped that historic panel discussion on Tall-bearded Iris breeding with
Barry Blythe, Joe Ghio, and Keith Keppel. Things like that may never happen
again. But from what I understand it was not planned but serendipity that we
have a tape.
Marketing seminars I have attended strongly recommend
accumulating a library of footage; from people’s cell phones, to amateur
videos, to professional videographers. When one has the materials to work with
one can create all sorts of valuable videos, some purely promotional, some
documentary. But one can do nothing unless one has videos to work with.
I would formally ask George to continue to search for someone who
could do videos for the convention.
I tried to get some interest three
years ago to no avail. I was excited over the excellent promo video the
daylily society produced. It was professionally done, lasted 3 minutes, and
cost the society $600. But in talking with the videographer he pointed out
that he donated a lot of his time and services because he was a member and
attended conventions anyway, so it was only a little extra cost for him. It
seems to me if the daylily society can find a way to do this we should be able
to also. Of course I have met lots of daylily people who were once members of
AIS and who left because they are not impressed that we have our act together.
I would like to prove them wrong.
Ideally I would like to see members
with video cameras filming our lectures at convention and our gardens. If we
take the attitude it is too hard, too costly, too whatever, we will never try.
I was struck recently by a story of an entrepreneur in NC who quit his job and
started a business and with only a belief in himself. He made the business
into the largest of its kind in the country. His comment was that people who
find all sorts of reasons not to try, never make anything happen. He said he
never approaches a task with anything but the idea he will figure out how to
get it done.
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Bob Pries
Zone 7a
Roxboro, NC
(336)597-8805
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