Well, given the unexpected success, we average 25 people with ~5 new members cycling through the thursday chats, I'd like to see what the Board and Staff think about making it "sanctioned".
To date, a few names might now look familiar. Subguy, MarkE, Margy and Flyingron have become very active after joining in on the chats.
Here are the steps I see needed to "make it real".
Find or upgrade chat tool. What we have is painful, and I'm being kind :eusa_doh:
Update the new user welcome to North Carolina Woodworker email to include info on the chat.
Create an automated PM sent to all new registrations for the, lets say, past 30 days. Send on Monday, inviting them to Thursday's chat. We do this now, but its manual and rather labor intensive.
Formalize the Topic of the Night. Come up with a rotation of topics as well.
Explore "Guest Speakers". We have a short list of "famous" members who are considered experts. Maybe expand it to include more nationally known woodworkers of notoriety. This mirrors what they do on Woodnet.
"Reach out to inactive members". There has been talk about formerly active members who might "come back" if we reached out to them.
So, I throw it out for comment. Is this something you would like to see become "official"?
Jim
To date, a few names might now look familiar. Subguy, MarkE, Margy and Flyingron have become very active after joining in on the chats.
Here are the steps I see needed to "make it real".
Find or upgrade chat tool. What we have is painful, and I'm being kind :eusa_doh:
Update the new user welcome to North Carolina Woodworker email to include info on the chat.
Create an automated PM sent to all new registrations for the, lets say, past 30 days. Send on Monday, inviting them to Thursday's chat. We do this now, but its manual and rather labor intensive.
Formalize the Topic of the Night. Come up with a rotation of topics as well.
Explore "Guest Speakers". We have a short list of "famous" members who are considered experts. Maybe expand it to include more nationally known woodworkers of notoriety. This mirrors what they do on Woodnet.
"Reach out to inactive members". There has been talk about formerly active members who might "come back" if we reached out to them.
So, I throw it out for comment. Is this something you would like to see become "official"?
Jim