[jen judkins]

I’d like Jean to weigh in on this as she is the one who would monitor membership. Jean???

[jen judkins]

Reva, The threads are located on http://www.draftanimalpower.com. You, as a board member have access to a whole section that no one else has access to. But you have to be signed in to see the categories and create a new thread.

You get an email when someone posts in certain sections, because I have set it up to do that. The email simply notifies you that there is a message for you to read. Click on the link, sign in and then you can back out of the thread to the whole forum. Post a new thread by clicking the orange link in whatever section you choose.

Let me know if you need more help.
Jennifer.

[jen judkins]

Just to clarify, Reva. We will meet at 6pm and go until 7:45 the latest.

I’m going to ask Jean to join us and take minutes.

Agenda items:

1. How will the executive committee function?
2. Budget
3. ?

Let me know what you want to see on the agenda and we will finalize it. Jen.

[jen judkins]

@Mark Cowdrey 29481 wrote:

Shouldn’t this be “Draft Animal-Power Network”? (also on the tab at the top of this page)

Yes, Mark….you are right.

[jen judkins]

I agree that your plan is the fairest, but it is also more time consuming. Lets see if we can find some tracking info that is inexpensive and easy for Jean to use first. If we can make it easy to do, we could do monthly mailing cards to renew membership.

[jen judkins]

Oh great. maybe we can do something by phone on Sunday? Anybody who wants to tweak the copy, please do so either through the google docs app or through feedback here and we can hopefully try to get something up by Monday.

[jen judkins]

Ethan that looks really good. I think all we need is to add some photos. I made a few corrections..mostly website addresses and such.

I have been looking behind the scenes of the ‘front page’ and it is, unfortunately set up for content to be entered in html language, which I do not know. So I am waiting for a call back from Ed Rooney (though he has in the past been unhelpful). Jean do you know enough html to help me?

[jen judkins]

@Carl Russell 29462 wrote:

What a great group of DAP folks.

We have very large shoes to fill…:o

[jen judkins]

The Board of Directors elected officers at their first Board meeting last month. I’ve updated the DAPNet web page with photos, bios and contact info. Please feel free to contact any of the Board members with ideas, feedback, or questions.

http://www.draftanimalpowernetwork.org/board_of_directors.html

[jen judkins]

I already tend to both websites (heavy sigh) daily. I would just need help with ‘copy’.

[jen judkins]

Excellent idea, Ethan. I have been conccentrating on the DAPNet.org website lately and am going to re-do the home page there, but you are absolutely right, that the ‘home’ page here on the DAP forum could be a place where we put a mission statement, purpose, plea for membership and also ‘hot topics’ about what’s going on with the organization.

If you feel up to it, would you work on some copy to start with. I have access to lots of photos we could add as well. Thanks, Ethan.

[jen judkins]

Some great points and insight, Ethan. Thanks for reviving this discussion.

I agree totally that this organization’s future relies on people caring enough to become members (reminds me, I need to pay my dues, lol). Right now, only a fraction of our DAP forum members are paying DAPNet members. Probably not out of resistance, but there hasn’t been a compelling reason to do it for most…after all the forum is free. Perhaps we need to think about making part of the forum (advertising, sales, events) a ‘members only’ section or at least only members could post there. We could definitely make only sections of the website available to non members, providing some incentive to join DAPNet.

One of the features of membership of DAPNet advertised is free classifieds on DAPNet.org, but since the forum is free, there is no incentive for people to place ads on the other website.

In regard to events. I strongly feel anyone wanting us to endorse a meeting ought to be a member in good standing. There might be levels of membership to reflect the amount of assistance they receive in regard to the event. So someone who wants Jean to help organize their event, would need to have a higher level membership (or perhaps a way to divert money back to the organization via a percentage of fees received, if any). We’ve got a lot of work to do on this. Lets make sure we discuss it further here so it does not become a time consumer at our next conference call.

[jen judkins]

That’s OK, Erika. We are not doing anything secret. Just want a forum that connects to the officers. You are welcome to listen in if you wish. J

[jen judkins]

http://www.draftanimalpowernetwork.org/membership.html

This link shows the current membership fee schedule.

[jen judkins]

Pam, Sorry, I guess I haven’t gotten the email notifications right yet. We are triing to set up a meeting for the officers, not the general board. The general BOD meeting will follow the executive committee meeting, though, so stay tuned. Sorry for the confusion.

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