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] Date Posted: 23:47:13 10/22/04 Fri In reply to: Bruce 's message, "Does anyone else share my concerns?" on 18:10:12 10/22/04 Fri Yes Bruce, I share your concerns exactly. However, we are limited to what we can do with our resources. I am certainly open to any suggestions that people may have. What we want to achieve can only be done through the political process, and this requires money and many like-minded people. How many members do we have anyway? There certainly seems to be no more than ten people that post here. I'm afraid we will be a voice in the wilderness until we get the numbers and funding arrangements to make a difference. Good luck with your endeavours Brent... [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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Author: Paddy (Scotland) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 15:53:31 10/23/04 Sat In answer to your questions: 1. Partially. & 2. My opinion on the matter is that if this is to be a serious movement as opposed to a small society of like-minded people we need to move on. My suggestions have only received a luke-warm response thus far from "national" presidents (my impression) and as a full-time student doing a 12 month postgraduate degree I cannot at present formally commit any of my personal time to this society lest I should let it down. When I do a job I like to do it properly. I shall set down my plan of what I strongly feel should be done within the following months: a) The society should try to turn itself into a policy thinktank, rather than just a message board linked to an idea. Articles for the society can be posted as official reports outlining the advantages of our case (for example, Brent might write a summary of the case for commonwealth free trade if actually asked to). These articles could be ordered in a coherent way even though they would initially be few in number. With most such publications, the content would not become out-dated very rapidly so high-maintenance would not be a problem. The President of the FCS must ask on this forum whether members/contributors approve of the main policy document, let it be debated on and then declare exactly what the policy document is. For example, it should be decided whether PNG & Jamaica would be welcome in an initial FC and other such cloudy issues. b) The "International" & "National sites" system is very confusing to a visitor. The FCS Canada site is excellent, outlining the case well (in both languages) and actually giving a lot of in-depth stuff such as Currency & Travel arrangements. In fact a lot of the stuff on it should link dirctly from the "main" site. Pop-up adverts piss everybody off. The FCS U.K. is an article from the Daily Mail. The FCS Australia has a summary and F.A.Q.s I would strongly advocate merging these sites into one site advancing the cases for each region somewhere on that site. In general the website needs to look a lot more polished and professional. It is the ONLY available outlet of our ideas. If people are going to refer people to this site on the streets or organise a talk, say at a University, with this site as the main point of contact if people are interrested, it needs to be a very professional-looking front for the organisation. Presently it is not. c) I would urge the organiser to get "not for profit" (if not already done) status for the FCS and set up a bank account with a "paypal" donations link on the website. If there is to be any expansion of the idea then it will require some funds! d) I know that this society is only small but if more questions were asked by the presidents (on this forum for the moment) about who was prepared to do what and when to do it for the FCS that would help matters. Jim came up with some good ideas for contacting the Conservatives Abroad which I am sure will have boosted morale. Perhaps a weekly posting on the forum about who was contacted about the idea and a brief summary of similar initiatives would greatly improve matters. Hope this helps, Paddy [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Jim (Canada) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 04:21:36 10/24/04 Sun [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: David (Australia) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 06:50:17 10/24/04 Sun Great work, Jim. Your website looks very nice and professional, I particulary enjoyed reading the history pages. All of those lovely flags! [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Paddy (Scotland) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 12:01:28 10/24/04 Sun The link from the main international site still goes to the tripod site though :0( I also read through the French version again. I didn't notice any mistakes in the text but at the top of the page just below the flags of Quebec, Canada, and New Brunswick there is a link back to the main site that goes to an intermediate page: http://www.fcsworld.com/main.html the link should be: http://www.fcsworld.com/main.htm Apart from that minor point I think that the site is excellent. What do you think of my proposals listed in my posting above, Nick, Jim, Joel, David? [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Jim (Canada) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 14:53:50 10/24/04 Sun Paddy, I like your ideas and I think they are worth pursuing. Thanks for the correction in the link on the FCS Canada French page. I will fix it. The link from the International site is under Nick's control as he runs that site. I have let him know about the change, but he has not updated it yet. This week, I will remove the old tripod FCS Canada site and replace it with a page which links to the new www.fcscanada.com site, so you are taken there automatically. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Nick (UK) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 16:39:58 11/20/04 Sat I agree with your proposals, Paddy. However, while I don't want to sound defeatist or like I'm making excuses, I really am rather busy at work, and have been running this site for well over 2 years without having much success at recruiting people to come up with more than we are doing. The problem is a lack of communication between the different presidents and other members, and I agree there is a risk people drift away from the organisation because of a lack of direction. However, on the few occasions when I've pushed people for help, they've walked away then too. The reality is everyone who sees this site will have their own slightly different views on our proposals, and there is clearly a limit to how much people are willing or able to do to help. There is the further fundamental problem that with the exception of Jim in Canada, the other 4 committee members are somewhat unwilling in their roles. I set this organisation up because I had a good idea and a desire to do something about it - I hoped I could find some talented and able people via the internet to help get things done, and I have recieved a lot of useful input and ideas. However, just because I have an idea doesn't mean I have the time or ability to lead it into other arenas. I would like to have the time and ability to work closely with a few key individuals to get things moving - but the ideas have to come forward, and so do the people. Hopefully my time situation wil be better next year. If you would like to choose a topic for debate, and volunteer or appoint someone to do som work on it, for say next week, then I am very happy to 'chair' the debate and put any decision to the committee for a vote. I think it's publicity we need, rather than decisions on PNG, though. I don't think there's a definitive answer to this sort of question. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |