On Thu, 15 May 2014, Derek Balling wrote:
On May 15, 2014, at 2:09 AM, David Lang <[email protected]> wrote:
On Wed, 14 May 2014, Derek Balling wrote:
On May 14, 2014, at 1:49 PM, Tom Limoncelli <[email protected]> wrote:
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Derek Balling <[email protected]> wrote:
And let's be clear: This should be member-only content.
We need more reasons why you HAVE to be a member.
I feel that this would make it impossible for the event to serve the goals I
outlined previously (more members for chapters to recruit; helps start new
local chapters). Are you saying that it wouldn't have that effect, or that
those problems don't need to be solved, or that such an event would solve other
problems?
If you don't need to be a paid member to show up at a locals meeting, and you don't need
to be a paid member to view the content "virtually", then how does this program
(if made freely available) actually drive increased paid membership to the LOPSA national
organization?
Because ultimately, everything you're talking about -- increasing local chapter presence,
etc. -- is a second-order variable in the larger equation of "grow LOPSA the
organization and make it financially sound".
It grows LOPSA membership and makes the organization more financially sound by exposing LOPSA to
more people, enhancing the prestige of LOPSA (and it's members), changing it from "LOPSA,
what's that?" to "LOPSA, oh, that's the organization of experts"
I'd like to see some statistics on that, rather than simple assertions.
I am of a firm belief, possibly wrong, that were it not for Cascadia and LOPSA-East, our
membership numbers would be very stagnant, and that the VAST majority of growth in LOPSA
membership numbers over the past 2-3 years has come from the "forced
membership" of those conferences.
But I strongly believe that we need to be generous with our expertise.
So you fall into the camp of "people will pay just to be associated with us"?
Because that's been the essential membership-model of this organization for
the last nine years, with no significant impact on our membership numbers.
I don't believe that restricting access to knowledge will help grow membership.
Over the last 9 years we've done a horrible job of getting info out to anyone,
our members or anyone else, so I don't think you can say that we've tried this
and failed, we haven't tried.
David Lang
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