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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