RE: communications

[cheryl deaton <region15kids@hotmail.com>]

Hello Dorothy (and Ron as well),
While some of the items on AIS Discuss would seem to pertain only to the AIS
Board, EVERY decision we make affects our membership, and as such, should be
of importance to RVPs, Affiliate officers and Section leaders because they are
our conduit to the entire membership.  If you are not made aware of things we
might change, and relay this information to the membership, then how will we
know if our decisions benefit members or if members do not want these changes.
Ron, even though you do not have an affiliate at this time, you do have clubs,
who have members, and they would be impacted by the AIS Board decisions.

This is why I feel open communication is the most important aspect in
operating this huge organization.  Yes, sometimes it is a pain in the neck to
have 48 new messages in your inbox talking about the Photo Contest prizes or
milestones on the WIKI and Facebook, but this is information that begs for
acknowledgement and occasional comments.  Information and knowledge is power,
and the more information you have at your fingertips, the better informed our
members become.

Cheryl Deaton


> From: DWiris@aol.com
> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 17:13:26 -0400
> Subject: Re: [AISdiscuss] communications
> To: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org
>
> Hi, Ron
>
> I have been wondering for some time why material of interest only to the
> AIS Board is appearing on this discussion group. My email is deluged with
> messages that do not pertain to non-Board members.
>
> Dorothy Willott
>
>
> In a message dated 7/20/2012 4:37:57 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> retmiagt@dishmail.net writes:
>
> As a RVP of the smallest region in AIS, with no affiliates (working on
> establishing some), I can only offer one thing you might consider.
> There are a lot of e-mails generated on this discussion group and not
> all of it is of interest to RVP's and affiliates. So, since this seems
> to be a discussion group for any and everything, perhaps a discussion
> group of only AIS board members, officers, RVP's, etc, would be more
> conductive to doing business and getting the word out. I wade through a
> lot of e-mails every day and must admit a large portion of those come
> from this discussion group and, as a RVP, not too many of them are
> things concerning my duties as RVP.
> Just a thought - something to cut down on the traffic and yet insure
> that important things reach the right people.
> Ron,
> RVP Region 10
>
> On 7/20/2012 14:58, Robert Pries wrote:
> > I agree strongly with the points that Ron, Andi, and Kelly have made. In
> talking about the communications problems I have made some concrete
> suggestions for new tools, and changes in existing structure. I would hope
that
> those possibilities could be evaluated. Assigning blame is not productive. I
> feel it is possible to do a bit of brainstorming that could lead to better
> communications. Generally the only person we have control over is
> ourselves. In a volunteer organization if something we do does not get
results,
> then what is possible is to try it in a different way. Unfortunately each of
> us has the monkey on our own backs to figure out how to make these things
> work. If they are not received well it is our problem not the recievers.
>
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