I am hoping that any DWAA members reading this blog will feel free to post to us what YOU would like from DWAA. You can even post as anonymous :))
Are there more committees you would like to see instituted? And if so, what ones?
How do you feel about Associate members getting the vote after, say, 5 years of continuous membership?
What about a DWAA Announce list? One of my national breed clubs has that - the only emails come from the parent club & it is to announce important business, etc. No responses on the list. That might be a way to get Board business out every month so members know what is going on.
Please feel free to let us know. We are hoping to make DWAA an even better organization for all of us.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
5 comments:
RE: "What about a DWAA Announce list? One of my national breed clubs has that - the only emails come from the parent club & it is to announce important business, etc. No responses on the list. That might be a way to get Board business out every month so members know what is going on."
We already have an ideal venue for that type of thing: the DWAA forums.
YOu are SO right about the forums! But people still seem to be resisting using them. I find it helpful with the topics segregated.
But Board actions could certainly be posted there & updated.
GREAT idea!!!
Deb E, posting as anon because I haven't figured out how to comment otherwise :)))
Count me in as someone who would like to see announcements. I'd also like to see minutes of all board meetings published. I want transparancy in every organization to which I pay dues.
I'd love to see more committees and more people allowed to be involved. The members have been asking for that on the lists. Why can't this happen?
'tis a puzzlement.
When the forums were set up, members were given different levels of access. At the time, those members that were on the board were set up as board members. The intention was to give a forum that could be accessed only by board members and "meetings" could be held online, with a record of everything that is discussed.
As webmaster, I could have accessed that forum, however, I had a program installed that recognized everyone that visited a forum/topic, and board members could easily see if I had accessed the forum. I would never do it, however, I wanted to make sure that the board was assured of that.
The forums already have an announcement feature. I could easily set up the president or secretary to have access to that feature.
I know many members have been resistant of the forums, but in truth, we have more forum members than the chat list does. People may not use the forums to discuss, and that is fine, but signing up is easy and it puts you on the announcement list, and allows you access to uploaded files (like the newsletter) that we want to protect the general public from accessing.
I would also like to see members having the option of paying online, as well as opting out of the hardcopy newsletter and electing the PDF version.
I would also like to see the roster available online. I can never find mine when I need it, and the online version would allow us to have website links, blogs, clickable email addresses, even list our area of specialty.
YES Kim!!! That is exactly some of the input we wanted! I guess I had NOT thought of the announcement point on the forums but now you guys have noted it & I will check it more often myself.
I also LOVE the idea of an onlien, member access roster. I think it would be much easier to do updates that way (membership chair simply fixes the online version)so the roster would stay more up to date. GREAT idea!!!!
Deb E
Post a Comment