Re: Popularity Poll

[don.rude@comcast.net]

Ju dy: 
Being a clever boy (some of the time), I tracked down the ballot earlier this a.m. But thanks so much. 
Conversion to electronic means for doing things done with paper for many years sometimes perplexes me. 
Don 


----- Original Message -----
From: "Judy Keisling" <keisling@swbell.net> 
To: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org 
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2012 8:20:08 PM 
Subject: Re: [AISdiscuss] Popularity Poll 

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: 
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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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