[pasmembers] Re: Vote needed to spend $12/month on Social Media advertising
- From: Don Boyd <azphotog@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: pasmembers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 16:48:35 -0700
I say try it for a month...
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Dick Newell <dnewell73@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> YES
>
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> On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Alex Vrenios <axv@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> No.
>>
>> I think $12/month is excessive.
>>
>> Alex
>>
>>
>> On Jun 13, 2014, at 1:46 PM, Terri <starstuff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Good afternoon PAS Members,
>>
>> PAS has started a SIG for Social Media. I have two wonderful PAS members
>> taking positions as
>> 1) Twitter - Alex Vrenios
>> and
>> 2) Meet Up - Howard Moneta
>>
>> For Twitter, there is no cost involved, just a little time now and then
>> to post things to Twitter and draw in more people to join in the fun.
>>
>> For Meet up, there is a fee, which I think is about $12 a month. So, we
>> need to vote if we want to use Meet UP to advertise our Public events such
>> as BMC, Mike's, the Telescope Workshops both at PVCC and Bookmans and other
>> Public events we set up.
>>
>> I wanted to call a meeting to do this, but I decided we can do it by
>> email. The active members are on this list. So, if you received this email,
>> I'm asking for your vote. Should PAS spend $12 a month to maintain a Meet
>> Up account, and advertise public events through it?
>>
>> Just a simple reply to this email of
>>
>> "Yes" you approve of spending the monies, and we can try this for a year
>> to see how it goes...
>> or
>> "NO" you don't approve.
>>
>> I will then take those votes and decide from there how we will manage the
>> fee. Someone has to put it on a credit card, I'm sure, and then get
>> reimbursed from the PAS Treasury, or someone can donate it to PAS by
>> putting it on their credit card, creating the account and having Howard
>> manage the PAS Meet Up account for PAS.
>>
>> Give me your input. And your vote.
>> I will put a deadline of next Friday June 20 to receive all votes.
>>
>> ---
>>
>> Before you vote, let's look at how this has worked for Yves. Yves
>> originally told me that PAS members (only) were invited to his events. The
>> last set of events he had, he did it through Meet UP, and what was cool
>> about that, was that there were proabably 30 to 50 in attendance, of people
>> we didnt' know, attending his event. Now you have to keep in mind that his
>> initial events involved him feeding everyone who attended. Then, he cut
>> back on the food and made it star party only, without potluck. I didn't
>> hear how those went, but PAS isn't going to provide food, unless it is
>> brought in by everyone as a potluck. But what we have to offer should be
>> enough to draw people in. Who doesn't want to Meet UP for looking through
>> telescopes?
>>
>> Then we have the question of if Mike wants the public at his public
>> events, and I mean a lot of public. 50 additional people might overflow
>> the parking. But it would be an exciting event.
>>
>> So, think this over before you make your vote, and then get that vote to
>> me by next Friday. Then, if you want to do the credit card thing, you can.
>> Or maybe you want to donate the funds to PAS, by covering the $12 a month
>> for PAS to use a Meet up account. Let me know.
>>
>> The vote is whether you approve PAS to do this monthly service, or not.
>> But if someone offers to cover the cost, 12 x 12 is $144 for the year, then
>> the vote is canceled.
>>
>> So, let me know what your vote is.
>>
>> You can reply to the email, or do a reply to me without sending out to
>> the group.
>>
>> Have a super day!
>> Terri, Event Coordinator
>>
>> I put my email in the reply field so you can just hit reply and it comes
>> back to JUST me.
>> If you do a reply all, it should go back to the group.
>>
>>
>> --
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>> see them, but you always know they are there.
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>> Coordinator
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