[Nfbmo] Trouble

Fri Mar 4 00:04:56 UTC 2016

Gary,

Well said, I have 2 items that I hope to interject in a positive manner.

1. As far as Convention/Agenda ideas.  I personally would like to see 1 or
2 more social events or mixers or whatever you want to call them.  While I
know the people in my own chapter fairly well, I feel that there is not
enough of an opportunity to get to know our brothers and sisters in the
federation from across the state.  I do know that we do have trouble
getting people to come to or stay at the current social events but maybe if
we all could brainstorm and come up with a couple of different types of
events, it might bring more in.  I know that we have many very intelligent
people among our group and if we all put our heads together we could come
up with some awesome ideas.  I will start out with 2 ideas.  We could have
a Bingo game or a trivia game.  I think that building strong social
relationships within will help the federation as a whole to be stronger.

2. I think when it comes to registering early for convention that most of
us would love to tell you that we will definitely be able to attend even at
the end of the previous convention but have logistical issues that we may
not be able to work out in advance.  Such as financial ability, employment,
transportation, child care, etc....  I personally would have loved to
registered the first day that it was available to me but am still trying
work through a couple of these types of issues.

Sorry to have been so long winded but I sincerely hope that some of these
ideas help.

Sincerely,
Randy Carmack

On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Gary Wunder via Nfbmo <nfbmo at nfbnet.org>
wrote:

> Hello, friend. Fair enough. I understand the difficulty of beating my head
> against the wall trying to come up with new ideas, and I suspect from the
> suggestions of others that they too have the same difficulty. I think one
> new wrinkle may be that we are going to do a segment on the older blind,
> not
> something we have traditionally done before. We have not talked much about
> medical conditions associated with blindness, but I think that this
> convention we will talk about non-twenty-four.
>
> Of course, we still hope to hear from Rehabilitation Services for the Blind
> and Wolfner Library. We will hear a report about national activities, our
> annual state report, a report from her governmental affairs team, a report
> from our Employment Research Committee and an upcoming seminar that is
> being
> planned, and a discussion about transition from high school to college and
> what this entails. Because we are in Springfield, I am going to see if we
> can get somebody from the teacher training program to attend, but that
> hasn't been finalized yet.
>
> I guess the real question is whether people really wait until they see what
> an agenda is before deciding whether to come. This has never been the case
> with me. When I attended my first convention in New Orleans, registering
> for
> the convention was the way one got to look at an agenda. The only thing you
> knew prior to that time was that you could get your agenda in print or
> braille, and it would be exciting. Until recently our state conventions
> have
> never been available in advance, and some state conventions I have attended
> don't even have agendas in braille. Now we usually have the convention
> agenda out a week or two before, and we even encourage people to bring the
> agenda on a device of their choosing.
>
> I know it's hard to believe, but folks are simply not ready to have agenda
> items finalized months before the convention. Even now Springfield is
> trying
> to figure out what an opening ceremony should be. They are not unique in
> this regard. This is not to say that the convention agenda couldn't be done
> earlier, but the question is whether it really would do anything to
> increase
> registration or get people to book into the hotel in a timely manner.
>
> Since this appears to be an issue, we might put ourselves to the task of
> figuring out incentives to register early. We already do this with
> preregistration, but there is no incentive we offer for calling and getting
> a room ahead of time. Let's put our minds to this and see what we can do.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nfbmo [mailto:nfbmo-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Bryan Schulz
> via
> Nfbmo
> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2016 10:58 PM
> To: 'NFB of Missouri Mailing List'
> Cc: Bryan Schulz
> Subject: Re: [Nfbmo] Trouble
>
> Hi,
>
> I didn't really have anything to suggest when others are content with the
> format.
> Bryan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nfbmo [mailto:nfbmo-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Gary Wunder via
> Nfbmo
> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2016 8:38 PM
> To: 'NFB of Missouri Mailing List'
> Cc: Gary Wunder; 'Bryan Schulz'
> Subject: Re: [Nfbmo] Trouble
>
> If you want something different, I think there is still time to get it on.
> Each year we try for some new and some that people come to count on. The
> agenda comes from the suggestions of the board and my plea for good ideas.
> Yours are most welcome.
>
> Warmly,
>
> Gary
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nfbmo [mailto:nfbmo-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Bryan Schulz
> via
> Nfbmo
> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2016 8:11 PM
> To: 'NFB of Missouri Mailing List'
> Cc: Bryan Schulz
> Subject: Re: [Nfbmo] Trouble
>
> Hi,
>
> Perhaps it would be helpful to know if there is anything different planned
> on the agenda??
> Bryan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nfbmo [mailto:nfbmo-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Eugene S
> Coulter
> via Nfbmo
> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2016 7:33 PM
> To: NFB of Missouri Mailing List
> Cc: Eugene S Coulter
> Subject: [Nfbmo] Trouble
>
> I just received an Email from the hotel for our state convention they are
> VERY concerned about our block. Only 32 rooms have been reserved and there
> is only a week left to make reservations before our rooms are dumped back
> into general inventory. Call-417-831-3131 to reserve your room!!!!!
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