[AccessD] The list

Ken,

We are a community of volunteers.  I appreciate your opinion and mostly agree.  However to approach 
it with "you guys need to do something" won't work.  Step up and ask for volunteers to assist you in 
updating our business model.  Be prepared for a long and frustrating (but doable) process of 
implementing changes.

We have made many changes in the past but because you are working with volunteers you will not get 
things done next week - unless you do it yourself.  Everyone on this list works for a living, takes 
vacations, eats and sleeps and so forth.  The larger the group the harder to get things done.

If you want to use them, we have email lists which can be used by the members of your change 
committee to rout the emails required to get things done.  We have also in the past used chat rooms. 
  That is hard to do because we live around the world.  What is convenient for you may not be so 
convenient for someone the other side of the world from you.

Believe it or not I am attempting to encourage you to take charge.  I have worked on several 
projects for the group and it absolutely is possible to implement change.

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it

On 9/18/2012 12:49 PM, Kenneth Ismert wrote:
> To summarize my points:
>
>   * We are a tiny group
>   * We have no search engine visibility
>   * We have no web presence
>   * Our site is totally out of date
>   * We absolutely lack any kind of promotion or marketing strategy, even to
> our own group
>   * We use completely outdated technology
>
> Without major changes, we are toast. Right now, I don't even see any
> general consensus on the issues, let alone a plan to solve the problems.
>
> -Ken
>