[nabs-l] Announcing NABS 2014 Candidates Forum

[David Dunphy]

You should conduct this during a conference call; this was done once 
before, and was a great way to have people come to ask questions and such.
On 6/12/2014 5:04 PM, Mary Fernandez via nabs-l wrote:
> Dear all,
> As we all know, this year during its annual business meeting NABS will
> be holding elections. In that spirit, I will be putting together the
> NABS 2014 candidates forum, which will be a time and space where the
> membership will get to ask questions and the candidates will answer
> those questions, thereby letting us know more about themselves and
> their vision for the organization.
> How it works: candidates must contact me off list, and let me know if
> they are intending to run, which position they are intending to run
> for, and if they'd like to participate. Note that preference will be
> given to presidential candidates, that is, because of time
> constraints; we will not be able to have debates for candidates for
> each of the positions which will be up this year. The only position
> which is certain to have an opportunity for debate will be the
> president's position.
> In the next few days I will be circulating a link to a Survey Monkey
> which will allow anyone who is a member to submit questions they'd
> like candidates to answer. We will put those questions into a pool,
> and questions will be randomly selected during the forum. That means
> that it is possible not all questions will be asked. However, I will
> post the questions publicly after the forum, and candidates can choose
> to answer them via the list or whichever way they fancy.
> So for right now, those of you who are intending to run for the NABS
> board, and are comfortable in declaring that intention please email me
> at trillian551 at gmail.com.
> I am not part of the NABS board, and I will not be running for any
> positions, so rest assure, that I will simply be putting this event
> together in an impartial and fair way. I will not be moderating, but
> will have a respected member of the NFB moderate. The moderator and I
> will be the only ones to see the questions before hand; no candidates
> will be given any kind of preferential treatment. Please let me know
> if you'd like to participate.
> Thanks.
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