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[James Weppelman]

BRYAN,
To clarify if i may:
1) You can sweep or not all you want. I,m saying at the CORSA level how in the world would you not know that a club is defunct?
Is there not any correspondence between CORSA and its affiliates?
2)Your not confused.I think your thoughts are spot on.The lack of younger membership, and loss of, might very well be related to the resistance of "social media" avenues,whether its more work or not.
3) I am a standing member of CORSA. And I think its dividing to squabble about THEY or WE.I appreciate a lot of things, but I would disagree that we SHOULD promote the corvair.
4)Start simple. Has CORSA every passed on a questionaire on  to the chapters? Questions as what they like doing or not.Or what CORSA could do on a higher level to help whatever(enrollment,activities,etc?)CORSA probaly only hears from the chapters when there is a issue,or problem.Why not start being proactive. WE (there i said it) dont have to get involved in every aspect of the local chapters,but WE should feel the pulse of them if you want to maintain and grow membership. I guess it upsets me that another chapter is gone(baltimore) and it took a web search to find out.
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> Hi Jim,
> 
> Just looking for some clarification, I got a little lost on your points.  Feel free to correct what I get wrong:
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> > On Apr 16, 2015, at 8:36 AM, James Weppelman via VirtualVairs <virtualvairs at corvair.org> wrote:
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> > IMHO I sort of blame CORSA. I feel they haven't been doing a diligent enough job on playing "BIG BROTHER"
> > Sure local chapters have there distint personalities, and problems.But if it comes down to CORSA doing pre-judging to find out a club is dead, well?
> 
> Hmm, are you suggesting a regular sweep of the links on Corvair.org to make sure they work?  Sounds like a good idea.  The hard part is usually getting someone to do it :-)
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> > Also as 2015, as this sounds,(keep in mind I'm writing on V.V. e-mail forum, not a blog or website) some of the chapters dont keep up with or care about the "new social media". Trying to find out the next meeting of our local chapter on there website was a joke .Hadn't been updated since 2013! Seems it was easier for them to move to a facebook site.
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> Ok, I'm confused, but maybe what you say illustrates the fact that not all chapters work the same.  Some like using an FB site, some don't.  I think it's fair to say that making it easy to find out something about a club is helpful.  I'll go further and add that *more than one way* is really good.  This does lead to more work for the club tho, as there are more ways to communicate than in the past.
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> > With all do respect they have updated  since it was bought to there attention. What else CORSA could glean from these locals could really help the direction of CORSA. Obviously not the vibrant and thriving chapters but the baltimores, etc.
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> They?  I'll comment that we need to stop referring to CorSA as "they".  I thought that WE are CorSA, at least those of us that are members.  CorSA is NOT a business to promote Corvairs.  CorSA is a non-profit group "by and for those who appreciate the Corvair".
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> I don't quite follow what we should get out of the chapters that aren't doing well - can you pass me some more thought?  I think this is a point that's missed, but I can't quite come up with any definitive action(s) from it.
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> --Bryan