[Nfb-idaho] Presidential communication methods

[don nepple]

hi elsie this don email is the best for me when you are not in boise thanks for the email.by for now keep up the good job.don.
 
> Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 23:42:11 -0800
> From: elsielamp at yahoo.com
> To: Nfb-idaho at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [Nfb-idaho] Presidential communication methods
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> My fellow Idaho Federationnists,
> It has been mentioned by a couple of people that I should post more to the Idaho list serve.  Communication is very important to me.  Text communication is NOT my favorite way to communicate, nor do I believe it is the most effective.  Text can often be misconstrued because the intent is sometimes lost in the text.  Further more, in my book communication is a two way street.  I do not receive instant feedback, and sometimes I get too much feedback from those who think their opinion is the only one I should consider.  I have more text to deal with than I care to read.
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> I am open to all suggestions, and will consider every idea.  Some of the best things come from others ideas. Please let me know what you think.
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> Emotions and voice inflections do not come across the same in text, and I tend to communicate quite a bit on the phone.  
> Sometimes I have heard that someone has tried to call and has left messages.  A Staff person from our National Center tried repeatedly to call me on a phone number that I had disconnected two years ago when I married Larry and moved to Malad City.  
> I have in my possession an email from that staff person apologizing for telling other members and staff that I was not responding.  She had been looking at an outdated list.  I also review my cell phone and home phone Caller IDs quite frequently.  Sometimes it seems that the people who tend to scream the loudest do not appear on my phone or cell caller IDs.  I am open to discuss most all issues except those that are confidential.    I have lost my cell phone more than once, but always replace it as soon as possible, and have had outages or interruptions on my home service.  These were out of my control.  I also have accidently deleted messages unintentionally that I had not even heard.  And sometimes someone else does it unintentionally.  So no system is perfect nor am I.  I do spend a lot of time talking to members of the Federation.  I try to be available during the majority of the waking hours in the week.  I may need to set certain days
> to do NFB work but I have not needed to do that yet.   
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> One compelling reason that I do not put too much trust in the listserve is that many members of our affiliate do not use computers or do not use the internet, or for whatever other reason do not choose to communicate via the listserve.  Most if not all do have telephones of one form or another.  To be brutally honest, the listserve for Idaho is censored by others outside our state.  There are others outside Idaho who decide what they will post of ours and what they will not post on OUR listserve.  So, not everything that I would choose to have on the listserv is posted. Or the posting is postponed; case in point, our latest fundraiser information has received a dubious response from those who decide what will be posted so it has not been posted yet of this writing.  
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> Please call me back if I do not respond to your call.  I do sometimes forget things, as do all of us.  If you want to talk to me please call.
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> Elsie Dickerson
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> Elsie H. Dickerson - President
> National Federation of the Blind of Idaho
> 211 North 70 East
> Malad City, Idaho 83252
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> elsiedickerson at ymail.com 
> Elsie Hiebert Dickerson
> “ Air is to the Body as Understanding is to the Heart.” Stephen R. Covey 
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