Re: ClubCJ's Future and Potential
Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2017 7:13 pm
With AusLancer I'm not sure if we need another club for all Lancers.
bumblebee wrote:If we try and cover all versions of lancer isnt there another forum that does most if not all of that already?
sarusa wrote:Keep Facebook, Instagram and social media out, right out. As far as possible!
There are people like me with limited ability to comprehend or have a wish to have anything to do with
what we see as invasive media.
Lets keep this a car club, not a media club!
Is the link causal or coincidental, e.g. is it because of age or Facebook that members aren't staying around as long? I would suggest that it is coincidental, and that the real problem is reputation. This loss of reputation - mostly caused by missing monies (which you mention) - leads to an erosion of membership, which leads to further losses of reputation. It becomes a bit of a rolling snowball. True, forums - and bulletin boards before them - are pretty old tech, but that's highly unlikely to be the real problem. Nor is mobile readability, it's actually not too bad. As previously explained, I believe that the root cause is likely the lack of incorporation.aspir3 wrote:There are so many great ideas. I have been in this club for almost 10 years. In that time I have seen it grow and then shrink. We have also had issues of finances going missing and admin stealing from members. I now control the finances and we have over $8k. In short the club has never been the same since Facebook. Members are now younger and staying around shorter.
Firstly, I just wanted to check on your meaning of "run the club properly". Did you mean to incorporate it? Or was it more general, meaning you don't have enough assistance?aspir3 wrote:I would love to run this club properly but we don't have enough interest. I also would not fill comfortable handing over IT side of things to someone I don't know who only just joined the club even though you sound very knowledgeable and trustworthy Ben.
I'd love to help out where I can, but with the current structure, I'm only comfortable in participating in a conversation regarding incorporation of some form. If you want to call that a committee, a sub-committee, a working-group, an advisory group, a topic of a particular forum - whatever - that's fine with me as long as it isn't a Committee of Management of this Unincorporated Association...!aspir3 wrote:At this stage i would love to promote some active members to moderators and start getting a committee together to discuss the future.