ownyourfuture
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Oh goodness, whatever will become of these poor folks?
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Oh goodness, whatever will become of these poor folks?
I would like to think so. But once again, despite a higher tech savvy IQ here, you can see in this thread that we'll miss some folks if we don't reach out in other ways.From OP - "If I could condense it all to webpage, Facebook and email - it would be so much more productive."
I think that should be enough. At least it's enough for me.
I am a techie and relatively young (59). Here are some of my experiences.
I tried FaceBook for a year (between 2013 and 2014). I was concerned about them abusing their knowledge of me through my posts. Soon after that we found out their R&D was trying psychological experiments on their users by rearranging the order of likes and dislikes to see how people would react. That ended FB for me.
Many of my. ahem. older family members, friends, and acquaintances now use email, Facebook, etc. The problem is that many of us techno-nerds have been on the "internet" since usenet newsgroup, etc., and are aware of spam, viruses, bots, chain letters, and all the other pitfalls. My poor dad's computer was eaten up with viruses from opening shady attachments and such.
Plus, as an eight-year veteran of FB, I've seen all the memes a thousand times, but all the "newer" users post them over and over and over...
And apparently many, if not most, FB users do not know how to use that other marvel of the internet age, the search engine...
I have no problem with email and we use it often. But we want to reach potential new members, email doesn't do that for us. The website reaches members and potential new members, but Facebook is probably better to reach younger and middle aged generations we also want to target. And FB is way more interactive than our webpage.I'm the secretary of a club and had the same problem with communicating to members when I first took over. We've settled on email as our standard means of communicating and I use MailChimp to spice up the format.
We also have a web page and private FaceBook group but there was an outcry when I tried to make one of those the primary source so email is our main source.
We've never used snail mail but one thing you might consider is a 'phase out' period. Let the club know that on XX date you'll be using "XYZ" exclusively for club communications. That way people can prepare for the change and get trained on how it will work.
+1. Other Board members never email minutes/financials in advance, and rarely email agendas (an issue in itself, board members are forced to wing it without any thoughts in advance) or discussion pre-reads. Board meetings are often a series of blindsides...and the chairman wonders why people don't volunteerOne of the first suggestions I made to the BOD is that we try to reduce the paper we use at our monthly meetings. We get a paper copy of the approved minutes from two months prior, the draft minutes of the previous month, and the treasurer's report. All told, about 20 pieces of paper per director. This is after the recording secretary has already emailed the minutes to us. Why do we need a paper copy of something we've already had electronic access to? And why print the treasurer's report? Just email it before the meeting or put it on a shared drive. But my suggestions were met with staunch objections from over half of the board members, so our printer keeps chugging away.