Re: What's your most important asset?
Re: What's your most important asset?
- Subject: Re: What's your most important asset?
- From: Paul Richards <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 22:12:07 -0400
On May 11, 2004, at 5:38 PM, Chuck Joiner wrote:
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What do you see as your group's most important asset: your web site or
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your newsletter?
This is starting to generate some interesting discussion among a few of
us in SMUG. I'm going to include it here to stir things up a bit on the
AUGD side. Just for reference, Mike LeClair is a longtime member of our
Core and a past officer. Tim Hodge is our webmaster, a former resident
of Oswego, in our area here in central NY state, and now a resident of
Lake Havasu City in AZ. (Oh, and yes, I am trying to persuade them to
jump on AUGD also.)
Paul Richards
Syracuse Macintosh Users Group
Syracuse, NY, USA
http://www.iSMUG.com
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From: Michael LeClair <address deleted>
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Date: May 11, 2004 8:18:24 PM EDT
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Subject: Re: What's your most important asset?
Well...since we are not really able to attract new members judging by
the declining membership...our best asset would be what holds those
that we DO have. So between the two...I'd pick the newsletter.
However, as any competent manager will tell you....the PEOPLE are the
best resource.
Mike
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From: Tim Hodge <address deleted>
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Date: May 11, 2004 8:49:53 PM EDT
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Subject: Re: What's your most important asset?
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I'll have to agree with Mike... the newsletter is much more important
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to members than the website. And actually, the MEETINGS are more
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important than either one. It's there that the interaction takes
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place. Tom does an excellent job of putting the newsletter together
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and thanks to the contributors, ours in NOT targeted to only our
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membership. Any Mac user can benefit.
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The website is only a convenience... clickable links in newsletter
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articles, an easy way to check out past articles if your paper copy is
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gone, that sort of thing. But the PEOPLE of SMUG are the main
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resource. We've started a small Mac group here in Lake Havasu... up
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last week to 25 members from our initial 17. We may be topped out
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though... this town is infested with PC vermin.
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I do miss SMUG... but come to think of it, with the internet, Lake
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Havasu isn't much farther than Oswego.
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Take care,
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Tim
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From: Michael LeClair <address deleted>
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Date: May 11, 2004 9:15:19 PM EDT
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Subject: Re: What's your most important asset? Take two...
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But....
The website IS the face that the world sees...( hmmmm...do we really
give a hoot what the people in south succotash see? )...so it should be
really snappy...up-to-date...with lots of current pictures of our
meetings and what is going on...along with all the material from the
newsletter in electronic form. Generally...it should be our best foot
forward....
Shouldn't we have a counter on it to see just how many hits we DO get?
If we are getting a blistering 1-5 hits per month...who really gives a
crap then..
Mike
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From: Paul Richards <email@hidden>
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Date: May 11, 2004 9:51:20 PM EDT
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Subject: Re: What's your most important asset?
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On May 11, 2004, at 8:18 PM, Michael LeClair wrote:
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> Well...since we are not really able to attract new members judging by
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> the declining membership...
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We are attracting new members. We are not attracting ENOUGH new
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members to offset our normal attrition. At least, I consider our
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attrition rate to be what I would call normal. People move; people
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die; people no longer need a user group.
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On May 11, 2004, at 8:49 PM, Tim Hodge wrote:
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> I'll have to agree with Mike... the newsletter is much more important
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> to members than the website.
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The question at hand is not which is more important to members. The
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question is which is our more important asset. And, given the above
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viewpoints, is one or the other better for attracting NEW members in
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their present forms? In some modified forms?
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On May 11, 2004, at 9:15 PM, Michael LeClair wrote:
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> The website IS the face that the world sees...
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Is it?
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> ( hmmmm...do we really give a hoot what the people in south succotash
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> see? )...
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How far is South Succotash from Syracuse in this online global
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community of ours? Are the people of South Succotash more likely to
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visit SMUG's website than those of CNY? I would say that, yes, we
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should care what they see because it's the same that everyone else
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sees too.
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> so it should be really snappy...up-to-date...with lots of current
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> pictures of our meetings and what is going on...along with all the
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> material from the newsletter in electronic form. Generally...it
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> should be our best foot forward....
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Now here I agree.
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> Shouldn't we have a counter on it to see just how many hits we DO
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> get? If we are getting a blistering 1-5 hits per month...who really
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> gives a crap then..
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Hmm. I question the value of counters in general. As it is, SMUG's
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home page is the home page I have set for my browsers. That means a
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lot of "hits" just from me that are of no informational value to us.
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Paul Richards
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Syracuse Macintosh Users Group
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Syracuse, NY, USA
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http://www.iSMUG.com
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