[Travelandtourism] We need to hear from you about whether you are going to be participating in the Travel & Tourism Division or are we dissolving the division

[Edward Green]

Hi Cheryl,

I’m contributing as a relative newcomer to the NFB (I joined as a Member at Large last year), and I must confess, have not ponied up my subs yet to join the Division though this is something I still intend to do should the Division have a future.

I wonder whether people do see value in the Division but are not able to participate in monthly calls for a variety of reasons.  For me, it’s a timezone issue as I live in the UK, but for some, I wonder whether the monthly meetings may feel a bit as though they are being asked to serve on some sort of Committee for the Division, when in fact they may want to support the work of the Division through membership but participate/consume its services more passively.

It may be that the Division has a future, but that monthly calls aren’t the way forward.

I’d be interested in others’ views though.

Cheers,

Ed
> On 1 Apr 2016, at 15:06, Cheryl Echevarria via Travelandtourism <travelandtourism at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Good morning everyone and need to hear from all of you!
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> Last night was our March Meeting of the NFB Travel & Tourism at 7 PM Eastern
> Time.
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> Please remember unless you are on the East Coast you need to move one hour
> back. If you live in Minnesota it is 6 PM, Utah is 5 PM, West Coast is 4 PM.
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> We get an email after each conference call from Freeconferencecall.com of
> when people called. We had gotten 3 separate calls for after 8pm and later
> after the meeting was over!
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> Our meeting was short again this month. Only 1 member besides that officers
> had shown up.  Yes, I am giving the "Mother's Guilt" here! It is becoming
> way upsetting, that we have members, who do not participate accept at
> National Convention.
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> If we want to keep this division going, we need your participation.
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> We all decided on last night's call, that we would contact our National
> President, Mark Riccobono, for some kind of assistance in this matter. 
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> We do have some officers what would like to run again for their positions,
> but they don't want to unless there is something to work towards.
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