[Namron] Communication

[Radei Drchevich]

Agreed.  but still might be a good idea to send a reminder to volunteers, reminding them of thier committment.  3 e-mails about the same question in the same day says to me that would be a good idea to CC the schedule to the volunteers.

I know when I was running events for the organizations that I worked with <5 different 501C3's in Colorado>, calling trees and e-mails were used to keep people interested and remind them of events.  and this was in the 80's and 90's, when it wasn't internet but local BBS's.   

A call tree has been proposed many times, but never seems to get a hold on.  if each person calls 5 people.  that means 1 calls 5, those 5 call 25, those 25 call 125, already that is 155 people.  and no-one hsa had to do all that much.

Just a thought.

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ulf Gunnarsson" <ulfie at cox.net>
> To: "Barony of Namron" <namron at ansteorra.org>
> Subject: [Namron] Communication
> Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 00:45:16 -0500
> 
> 
> Radei Drchevich wrote:
> > May I ask a serious question.  Why does everyone make communication so
> > difficult?  Why not use the media available to thier fullest?
> 
> You've heard a few reasons.  I would add my favorite.  Email is
> effectively a quarter of a century old. (It's a little older, but that
> sounds better.)  Most people have only been using it since the World
> Wide Web explosion in the mid 1990's.  Many of the people on this list
> started emailing after that and are only casual users at best.
> 
> All this means that it is *our* current generation developing email
> etiquette.  Our parents did not teach us this, and neither did our
> school teachers.  We have only one another to look at for example.
> 
> Bad manners precede good, and most people here understand the terms
> "flame war" and "net rage".  The mailing lists allow the careful
> deliberation of written and the near-instant speed of a telephone call.
> This is a powerful marriage, but has drawbacks.  Have you ever been in a
> multi-storied schoolhouse or mall and seen a kid on one level yell an
> insult to some bully on another level, knowing he can run away before
> the bully can reach him?
> 
> So some of the posters on this list, or rather, the people on this list,
> try to reread their emails before sending in order to make sure the
> email says what they intended and would be hard to misinterpret.  When
> posting, they remember that while some people are veteran users of
> email, some are still intimidated by computers in general, let alone
> electronic mail.  They remember that words sent here are practically
> written with a permanent marker on the side of their house, visible for
> decades to anyone who simple drives past.  In short, they think before
> they post.
> 
> I would not say this makes communication more difficult.  It actually
> helps with communication by cutting down on the number of ripple
> messages any one post generates.  I agree that it slows down some
> avenues of communication, limiting them from their full speed.  But I
> also think that the speed-limiting governors placed on American
> automobiles have kept many people from killing one another on public
> highways, and I see this as a good analogy.
> 
> Finally, I'll throw in a second reason.  Mailing lists have become a
> good place to harvest information that some folks do not want
> distributed.  In fairness to them folks generally do not post that type
> of information.  It means we still do some things by paper, but I feel
> it is a good trade off.
> 
> Baron Ulf
> 
> 
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