[chapter-delegates] New Membership Level

[EJ Preston]

EXACTLY...  How did ISOC get such an incredible membership boost in the 
first place?!?  We're set for a drive that's going to bring in an 
estimated 500 new members...  We cannot afford to charge them (as many 
are students and/or are poor).

ed

EJ Preston
VP - SalsaNet, South Central Texas ISOC
512.658.5201
ejpreston at salsa.net
www.isoc.org

On Mar 1, 2005, at 5:05 PM, Franck Martin wrote:

>
>
> James M Galvin wrote:
>
>> I've been watching this discussion unfold today.  There are many 
>> valid points of view and I do not want to discourage people from 
>> discussing those views.  What I do want to do is add some context to 
>> the discussion to explain how the new membership level came to be.  
>> This note is long, and I apologize for that, but I wanted to be 
>> complete.
>>
>> I accepted the position of VP of Chapters 3 years, just after the 
>> Board had decided to restructure itself.  A component of the ISOC 
>> strategy that emerged from that restructuring was to set aside 
>> temporarily paying membership and instead create a new membership 
>> that was free.  One of the responsibilities I had was to create a new 
>> membership program that included both free membership and paying 
>> membership.
>>
>> The fact is ISOC members want a paying membership.  We know this from 
>> a survey we took more than 2 years ago.  Perhaps some of you 
>> participated in that survey, although the discussions would suggest 
>> that many of you either did not participate or do not remember doing 
>> so.  We also surveyed Chapters (through this list) on what they 
>> wanted from a membership system.
>
> The survey was done when the membership was a paying one with about 
> 5,000 members at the time (?) I think if this survey is redone now, 
> with 10,000 members mostly free members, the results would be 
> different because ISOC has reached a population class that was well 
> excluded before...
>
> Cheers
>
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> Franck Martin
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