[Oabs] Please read, regrouping!

[Lillie Pennington]

I forgot to ask. When are we meeting?

Sent from my iPhone

> On Jul 21, 2014, at 10:53 PM, Lillie Pennington via Oabs <oabs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> I also started the advertising directory and all of the colleges and universities in Ohio should be there. I will start finding contacts this week.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Jul 20, 2014, at 7:36 PM, Kaiti Shelton via Oabs <oabs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi, OABSters,
>> 
>> Please read this entire email, because it is important.  If you have
>> any questions at all after reading this, please don't hesitate to
>> email me directly or on-list depending on the nature of your question.
>> IF it is something you don't absolutely think pertains only to you,
>> please do ask publically so that others who might have the same
>> questions and may not be as quick to ask them can benefit as well.
>> 
>> I understand that on Friday our meeting was very poorly attended.
>> Many of us were traveling and at the mercy of roaming signals.  I
>> myself was unable to call in due to poor cell phone coverage and a
>> really bad storm that neither Sprint nor ATNT service could handle,
>> but I hear that we only had two people show up to the meeting and
>> after 20 minutes they left.  This is not something we can accept, and
>> call it a month for July.  I propose that, since we have some time
>> left in the month, that we find a half hour time slot to meet via
>> phone, even if it is before the fundraising meeting next Friday.  We
>> need to regroup on a couple of things I will mention below, but more
>> importantly we need the membership in order to do that.
>> 
>> Speaking of membership, the membership committee is struggling and has
>> had very poor attendance at meetings for the past few months.  The
>> brochure which was written back in January has yet to be sent out, and
>> that is because there has been a lack of contact with agencies across
>> Ohio.  We need to fix this.  We can not build this division without
>> making a concerted effort to do so.  I know summer is usually the hard
>> part of the year for us since everyone is scattered in different
>> directions for camps, vacations, conventions, etc; but we need to pull
>> it together.  That starts with coming to membership meetings and
>> working to recruit more members.  Our discussion posting schedule has
>> not worked out as we had hoped it would, so we need to draft a plan B
>> in order to make sure there is participation from multiple members on
>> the list.  I need to know from you all what didn't work about that,
>> because if we need to come up with a different calendar system or a
>> different way to remind people who agreed to help with the project to
>> post, then we will have to do that.  However, we also need to
>> personally exercise some autonomy, meaning that when we draft a plan B
>> I want it to be the last plan we draft.  If we agree on a different
>> calendar format but keep the expectation that everyone will check the
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