Re: Popularity Poll

[Judy Keisling <keisling@swbell.net>]

If you're talking about the Tall Bearded Symposium, AIS stopped distributing
the 
ballot with Irises a couple of years ago.

The Symposium ballot is on the
AIS website. Info on how to get to it (as 
published on the website) is
below.B  Ballots are due to the RVP by September 1.

Here is how to get to the
ballot on the website:

B B About Irises>Awards & Surveys > Tall Bearded Iris
Symposium

Here are the instructions for voting the ballot.

Every member of
The American Iris Society may participate in this balloting of 
the irises
listed on the following pages. Each member is allowed twenty-five 
votes.
Please follow the instructions below:

1. Voting may be accomplished in a
variety of ways:
a. You may mail your RVP a list of the iris you are voting
for, either names and 
numbers, or just numbers.
b. You can download the list
from the AIS web site (www.irises.org), print it, 
mark it up, and mail it.
(see the link to the ballot below)
c. Most RVPbs have email, and those who
do will accept any of the above formats 
that way, too. 

2. No member may
vote for more than twenty-five varieties. You may vote for 
fewer than
twenty-five if you wish. Write-in votes are not allowed and will not 
be
tabulated.
3. Your ballot must be mailed to and received by your Regional Vice
President by 

September 1, 2011 in order to be counted. The name of your RVP
is listed inside 
each AIS Bulletin. Sign your ballot and mail it first class.
4. Overseas Members may vote by mailing their ballot to the Symposium
Committee 
Chairman whose name, email, and address appear inside each AIS
Bulletin. It is 
advisable to send by Air Mail to assure receipt of your
Ballot by September 30, 
2011. Ballots received later will be counted if at
all possible, so please vote 
even if you can not meet that date. Email is an
acceptable alternative (either 
numbers-only, or numbers and names), and a
representative in each foreign 
country can tally that country's votes and
send the totals and voters to the 
Symposium Chair by email or mail.
________________________________
From: "don.rude@comcast.net"
<don.rude@comcast.net>
To: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org
Sent: Mon, July 23, 2012
5:35:36 PM
Subject: Re: [AISdiscuss] Popularity Poll

I have not gotten a
ballot nor have I received ballots from any one. Usually 
they come with the I
rises but I have not had any issue recently.. 

Please suggest what I should
do. 
Don 


----- Original Message -----
From: RUTHBB@aol.com 
To:
aisdiscuss@aisboard.org 
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2012 6:27:17 PM 
Subject: Re:
[AISdiscuss] Popularity Poll 

Hi Don, 

I'm doing the tally for the SJI
Popularity Poll, which should close in a 
couple of weeks. That society gets
the results first. 

The ballot is sent along with the summer copy of The
Review. 

Ruth 


In a message dated 7/23/2012 6:00:58 P.M. Eastern Daylight
Time, 
don.rude@comcast.net writes: 

Hi friends, 
I am wondering if anyone
out there has gotten a recent bulletin or ballots 
for the SPopularity Poll..
As RVP for Region 4, of course, I must keep track of the results. Don't 
know
where they ballot is? 
Can anyone clarify. 
Don 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Janet Smith" <ypauls@sti.net> 
To: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org 
Sent:
Monday, July 23, 2012 11:50:52 AM 
Subject: RE: [AISdiscuss] communications
Hey Cheryl, 

Thanks for the clarification so Photo Contest won't be a "pain
in the 
neck". 

Have a great day! 

Janet 

---- Original Message ---- 
From:
region15kids@hotmail.com 
To: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org 
Subject: RE:
[AISdiscuss] communications 
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 10:00:27 -0700 

>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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