I think the only reason that NANFA could appear to be an "Internet Club" is
because the _active membership_ has found that it's much more conveinent and
less expensive to do their communications over the Internet... Not that a
subsection of NANFA has moved forward and left a large part of the club
behind.
Bob says:
So what are we going to do about it? If Chris and Charlie don't object, I
suggest running the following note in American Currents, in the NANFA News
section:
NANFA Regional Reps Compiling Phone Lists for Upcoming Collecting Trip
Have you missed out on a collecting trip because you don't have access to an
e-mail account? E-mail is the most convenient, least expensive way to
notify members of upcoming collecting trips. The expense of postage, and
the time and trouble of addressing letters and printing trip announcements
is difficult for many reps, especially those in larger regions. However,
NANFA regional reps don't want anyone to feel left out and are compiling
phone lists of members in their regions who would like to be notified about
future trips. If you're interested in upcoming outings, your regional rep
would appreciate it if you would call or mail you his number, to be notified
of future regional events. I listing of the NANFA regional representatives
appears on the cover of this publication.
How's that?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Todd Crail" <farmertodd_at_buckeye-express.com>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 3:42 PM
Subject: Re: NANFA-- internet clubs
> Chris doesn't need to think about anything else :) This could easily be
> part of Charlie's section for the reps and really, I think that's all
that's
> necessary unless _some other_ volunteer would like to take this on and be
a
> coordinator for getting people hooked up with each other (Maybe under the
> title "NANFA Member Contact Coordinator"). Even in this situation, I
think
> that the volunteer would need to work _with_ Charlie. This is definately
> Rep territory and if people are getting missed, that's something we need
to
> resolve within the Rep program. Not with more paper and postage, and
> certainly without adding another program to NANFA.
>
> It amazed me that with 30 or so contacts in Ohio that all had _valid_
email
> addresses, the only respondents to my near-spam like efforts this spring
to
> draw people out of the current NANFA member woodwork in Ohio were the
usual
> suspects and a single new addition to our usual suspects (who has been a
> fantastic addition to the "crew" and I'm very glad I'd made the effort :)
> No "Hi", no "Who are you?", no "Leave me alone". While this is in line
with
> a normal direct marketing statistics (expected return on investment), it
> doesn't exactly make jump up and down to spend a bunch of additional money
> to duplicate what Bob has found out (and probably coincides with the same
> statistics).
>
> I think the only reason that NANFA could appear to be an "Internet Club"
is
> because the _active membership_ has found that it's much more conveinent
and
> less expensive to do their communications over the Internet... Not that a
> subsection of NANFA has moved forward and left a large part of the club
> behind.
>
> Todd
>
> >
> > The thought just struck me--perhaps a short article in NANFA
acknowledging
> > the problem, and advising non-Internet capable NANFA members to contact
> > their regional rep/contacts about being added to a phone list. In
> addition
> > to our e-mail announcements, we could call those few members who express
> > interest in going out on a trip.
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