Executive Committee Meeting Minutes, December 21, 2021

Members Present:  Mary Hennings, Danny Sands, Eric Bersh, Joe Ternullo, Judy Danielson Full attendance record available here.  Welcome: Mary Minutes from last committee meeting       Not discussed. Working on Initiatives and Communication among Members – Mary                            People should provide their resumes and supporting materials if they want to participate on committees.  Several SPM members have recently volunteered to be on Committees.  Joe suggests each committee deal with volunteers in their own way.  There have been several comments on Connect that have offended members, calling them names.  Danny says we need a plan so this type of confusion doesn’t happen again.  He mentions: 1) Urgent communication back to membership; 2) Communicate to members about etiquette on Connect; 3) explains how we’ve dealt with this in the past, using a community manager to give people helpful feedback on Connect etiquette.  Judy says several members are not aware of our new plans.  Mary suggests a Town Hall to talk about our new direction.  Mary continues: we need to find a way to get this done with all the other projects we have on our plate. Membership committee asks how we make Connect more friendly, better.  Judy: We should be asking if Connect is the right platform for us?  Danny: When there’s a diversity of ideas, we will have the same issues on whatever platform we use.  Judy: What does it mean to be a member orga...
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