[pasmembers] Re: Vote needed to spend $12/month on Social Media advertising
- From: "Darren Johnson" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "greyseer1411@xxxxxxxxx" for DMARC)
- To: "pasmembers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <pasmembers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 19:17:03 -0700 (PDT)
I vote yes,
But...
I think we need to have a review of it after the six months of the first period
is up. (the 12 dollar a month fee is only if you prepay for 6 months in
advance, so we can't just try it for 1 month at that cost.)
Darren Johnson
On Friday, June 13, 2014 4:49 PM, Don Boyd <azphotog@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.
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>>I think $12/month is excessive.
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>>Alex
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>>On Jun 13, 2014, at 1:46 PM, Terri <starstuff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>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.
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>>>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?
>>>
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>>>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.
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>>>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
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>>>
>>>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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>>>
>>>--
>>>
>>>Good friends are like stars. You don't always
>>>see them, but you always know they are there.
>>>Terri Phoenix Astronomical Society Event Coordinator
>>>Visit the P.A.S. Facebook Page & My Facebook Page
>>>Visit my Music Page: Private Music Instructor & Music Facebook Page
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