Re: AUGD: Do you trust your leaders?
Re: AUGD: Do you trust your leaders?
- Subject: Re: AUGD: Do you trust your leaders?
- From: Amaya Gergoff Bengoa <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 21:22:06 +0200
Thanks for all the replies so far....
but indeed it happen to a group, his president gone with the mailing
list and create a new group with all the members, it is delicate
because it is like a SIG group, so guess how it feels to have two
same interest groups on the same town, even if you can thought about
competition in a regular basis, it has to be very difficult for those
who have make this happen.
I take the risk to bring the subject here because I think groups
should have confidence on their leaders, and also be careful and make
some backup data, also because there is the issue about dealing with
data that was ok to let the user group known, as address, email,
phone etc, but who let you "share" that info with others, you should
have some kind of permission of your members.
They are a little desperate, they asked the president to remain just
as president, but they toll me he hasn't agree with that and so he
has gone with the database and start the new group.
As a leader you should know that you are there first because you
care, many trust you, it is supposed to be fun, but you suppose to go
for the group and not for yourself.
Hope this help to put some perspective but also my thought s that
this should happen :-/
Amaya
On Oct 24, 2006, at 5:34 PM, Allen Emory wrote:
Amaya:
You raise some disturbing questions.
After last week's roll call event on AUGD, Chuck Joiner of the MUG
Center asked me to participate in a podcast for the The User Group
Report. We talk about roll call and that led us to talk about UG's
in general. The podcast can be found here:
http://www.mugcenter.com
As a result of last week's roll call, we both noticed a number of
UG's struggling with declining memberships. Chuck pondered if
structured UG executive committees hinder the growth of UG's. It
is interesting fodder for anyone in charge of a UG. Is your
executive committee helping or hurting?
There is more in that podcast, but, since you raised closely
related issue's you might find it interesting. FWIW, last night was
Triangle MUG's Executive Committee Meeting (we call it XCOM) - I
raised this exact issue, that we need, as a executive committee, to
push the group in a direction that every member feels empowered to
participate as they feel will best advance their needs. If a
members wants to get other members together for an additional
meeting, they don't feel the need to ask permission from XCOM.
After all, this is how UG's got started in the first place.
Allen Emory
Triangle Macintosh Users Group
http://www.tmug.org
Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, NC USA
On Oct 24, 2006, at 5:25 AM, Amaya Gergoff Bengoa wrote:
Hi all,
I wanted to get this topic on board since it is not the first time
I heard a group dealing with the ego and "power" a president or
group leader get at his/her role.
What UG do to make sure your leaders wont "hijack" your database
and start another group, how you protect your members data, how
you keep control of your group contacts and information?
Do you backup your mailing list?
Do you backup your database and more than one person have access
to it?
Who control the access to the Apple Locator database, one person,
more than one?
Does a group "hijacked" need to go to a legal action to prevent
members information be used without permission?
How to control power freak ego of leaders?
:-)
regards,
Amaya Gergoff
Apple User Group Regional Liaison for Southern Europe
http://www.apple.com/usergroups/contact/liaisons/
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