Comments on: Program Planner’s Blues: Blue Sky Thinking http://genealogyeducation.wordpress.com/2006/08/05/program-planners-blues-blue-sky-thinking/ for educators, event organizers and the curious Sat, 03 Jan 2009 16:39:15 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: genealogyeducation http://genealogyeducation.wordpress.com/2006/08/05/program-planners-blues-blue-sky-thinking/#comment-682 genealogyeducation Sat, 05 Aug 2006 22:16:27 +0000 https://genealogyeducation.wordpress.com/2006/08/05/program-planners-blues-blue-sky-thinking/#comment-682 So, Robert, and other speakers, what would you pay to have your photo, your bio sketch and your lectures on one of those monthly tip sheets going free to hundreds of gen society leaders? Before an entrepreneur can put that newsletter into the mail box of hundreds of genealogy leaders and program planners, this entrepreneur needs a reward for the effort. Ken So, Robert, and other speakers, what would you pay to have your photo, your bio sketch and your lectures on one of those monthly tip sheets going free to hundreds of gen society leaders? Before an entrepreneur can put that newsletter into the mail box of hundreds of genealogy leaders and program planners, this entrepreneur needs a reward for the effort.
Ken

]]> By: Robert Vann http://genealogyeducation.wordpress.com/2006/08/05/program-planners-blues-blue-sky-thinking/#comment-679 Robert Vann Sat, 05 Aug 2006 17:54:04 +0000 https://genealogyeducation.wordpress.com/2006/08/05/program-planners-blues-blue-sky-thinking/#comment-679 I, like most "professionals" sit on both sides of the table. We endure Joyce, the Scrapbook Lady, as do you,! But we have taken the initiative to provide an alternative, a planned program, with hand-outs, Power Point presentations, and in most cases, publications that round out the presentation and I even stay around and give advice and help. I speak general research, LDS topics, and Native American research. There are many of us around, and often a major speaker will increase attendance, participation, and membership in your society. Robert Vann, rhvann@sbcglobal.net I, like most “professionals” sit on both sides of the table. We endure Joyce, the Scrapbook Lady, as do you,!
But we have taken the initiative to provide an alternative, a planned program, with hand-outs, Power Point presentations, and in most cases, publications that round out the presentation and I even stay around and give advice and help.

I speak general research, LDS topics, and Native American research.

There are many of us around, and often a major speaker will increase attendance, participation, and membership in your society.

Robert Vann, rhvann@sbcglobal.net

]]> By: Christine Sweet-Hart http://genealogyeducation.wordpress.com/2006/08/05/program-planners-blues-blue-sky-thinking/#comment-675 Christine Sweet-Hart Sat, 05 Aug 2006 11:56:21 +0000 https://genealogyeducation.wordpress.com/2006/08/05/program-planners-blues-blue-sky-thinking/#comment-675 I'm working on this right now! My problem is finding people who want it. The societies up here are a bit slow to adapt to anything but the way things used to be, yet they complain about the 20th showing of "Joyce the Scrapbook Lady." It's refreshing to see that there is interest in changing the way things operate. I’m working on this right now! My problem is finding people who want it. The societies up here are a bit slow to adapt to anything but the way things used to be, yet they complain about the 20th showing of “Joyce the Scrapbook Lady.” It’s refreshing to see that there is interest in changing the way things operate.

]]> By: Leslie Lawson http://genealogyeducation.wordpress.com/2006/08/05/program-planners-blues-blue-sky-thinking/#comment-674 Leslie Lawson Sat, 05 Aug 2006 03:10:46 +0000 https://genealogyeducation.wordpress.com/2006/08/05/program-planners-blues-blue-sky-thinking/#comment-674 Sign me up! Seriously, I am the head of our Education Committee, and we are burning out here! We meet this next week to discuss "mini-classes," our fall seminar speaker, our Open house, and the spring seminar. We need to find people who have topics of interest for the mini classes that run on Saturday's or Sunday's in the fall, and the winter. We also will be discussing speakers for the monthly program we do for the members and the general public. We try to book this a year at a time. So, if you have new ideas, let me know! Education is keeping this society afloat right now, and it's killing the few of us that are here! Sign me up! Seriously, I am the head of our Education Committee, and we are burning out here! We meet this next week to discuss “mini-classes,” our fall seminar speaker, our Open house, and the spring seminar. We need to find people who have topics of interest for the mini classes that run on Saturday’s or Sunday’s in the fall, and the winter. We also will be discussing speakers for the monthly program we do for the members and the general public. We try to book this a year at a time. So, if you have new ideas, let me know! Education is keeping this society afloat right now, and it’s killing the few of us that are here!

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