On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 09:00 +0100, Finn Gruwier Larsen wrote: > Hi Chad, > > I think the strategy has to come first, and then we could always try > to ask companies for money to fulfill it afterwards.
It could be a long wait and there is not a lot of evidence that this has happened to any great extent in the years I have been here. If we are to use corporate style marketing strategies we need corporate style budgets. So raise money first if that is the plan otherwise a lot of time is wasted planning things that we will never have the resources to implement. If there is no money, only personal resource, motivate the volunteers to put their efforts in where they have an interest. Trying to coerce volunteers into a corporate style plan won't work simply because their motivation is not the same as the individuals working in a conventional company's marketing department. Getting the best from volunteer human resource is a lot more difficult because you have to work out what fires someone up and fan the flames, not pour water on them because it doesn't fit "the plan". Its much more anarchic but sometimes anarchy gets better results than central control. > So welcome aboard, and if you have some concrete ideas please let us know... Yes, some fresh ideas from somone trained in the area would be really useful. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMS Ltd --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
