Who's There?
Webmaster
Webmaster Who?
Webmaster Gone Wild!
And that is certainly the truth. Our webmaster has gone off the reservation,
Why do I say that? Well he does not seem to be able to read the Communication Subcommittee's Charter,
Now IT says :
Mission Statement - The objective of the Communications Team is to manage the LCRCC correspondence including Facebook, website, news releases and online calendar.
It also says:
Activities and Duties include: • Coordinate the use of the LCRCC web site and Facebook content.
For some reason he has a problem with the above.
He has expressed this to us
I do not see the website as under communications. I have asked that the meetings be changed to a more reasonable time and perhaps location but you have yet to make any effort to do so.
One could possibly be an issue of literacy. The inability to read what would appear to most to be simple and clear statements,
The other part I don't understand. I mean on the one hand he complains that we hold it in a Bar, The Starlite to be exact. Now the Starlite does have a Bar, it also serves food and I have seen a lot of people bring their children there.
Including our Webmaster. As I recall we brought his daughter to one of our meetings there.
I cannot either understand his adversion to there being a Bar in the Building, Does he not notice the even larger Bar at the Lone Star when we goes to an Organizational Meeting?
Of course he does. Where else would he get the schooner of Beer he enjpys during the meeting.
For many years the Communications Team has met Saturday nights at the Starlite, Maybe 8 or 10 people attend our official meetings there.
I do know that some churches including the one our Webmaster goes to have services on Saturday night.
I also know those services end an hour to an hour and a half before we meet.
I think his objectons are a tad this side of verasity.
One of the problems we have with each other is he thinks we are old fashioned. We have to tried to convince him that we do not use archaic and primative forms of communication,
But to no avail he has gotten vehement at times,
I read your minutes and I must say I will be apposing this and very verbal about it too. I have attempted and continue to attempt to simplify things and the maintaining of a group page and your retiring of the fan page is in direct opposition to this effort.
The removal of access what voted upon and has been previously discussed in meetings.
I will not be reporting to the communications team. PERIOD. You and the rest of the team do not communicate, your lack of understanding of technology hinders this and the continual desire to meet on a Saturday evening in a bar opposes any modicum desire to be effective in meeting. If you and your committee wish to have communication delivered through the technology avenues available, I would suggest you begin to develop strategies and either deliver them using them or through me. Either way is perfectly fine as my role is to provide and assist, not to inhibit. Your aforementioned actions are to inhibit.
Last the dissolution of website hosting. If you present this YOU will look like an uncommunicative old
(Word that starts with F and means breaking wind,)
Obvious to me this is a personal attack, but one YOU will look bad as you present this.
This little diatribe was the result of our understanding that the webmaster consdiered two Face Book Pages redundant and wanted to get rid of one,
We looked at the situation during a meeting in his absense as usual and thought Hmm The Group Page has 370 members the Fan Page has 67 Likes ( I think it is up to 96 now) Which one do we delete?
Since then we have discovered again without the benefit of the webmaster there are facets of the Fan Page that can be up great use. Which for some reason have never been implemented.
As to the website? Website providers have over the years become more and more user friendly. While it is nice to have an IT specialist handling it NOW, it is our desire some time in the future when this process has developed to the appropriate stage to transition the website to one anyone one wiht a minimum amount of trainling could use.
We want to stay current with the newly developing technologies ;-)
Lastly as for what could be considered a personal attack of our Subcommitee Chair?
Old (Word that starts with F and means breaking wind,)
As a Old (Word that starts with F and means breaking wind,) myself I can recognise a younger and fledgling (Word that starts with F and means breaking wind,) and think that this was mostly projection on our webmasters part..
Our Webmaster during the last meeting brought up some new features he wants the Committee to purchase for him to play with.
I have to admit, while I have no problems with automatic posting that he extolls, I WOULD like to see some effort to edit out the duplicative and redundant posts that result.
The Facebook Group Page recently had One post showing the three upcoming dates for the Office Committee Meetings.
The Fan Page had multiple posts for each of the dates.
Now I suppose it might be a matter of taste which looks better One Post with 3 Dates or Three Posts each with a different date,
I do feel that most people might think that SEVEN posts for the Three dates was overkill, and that some manual editiing to remove the FOUR uneeded Posts might be in order?
So as for his requests for new features?
I think that when Little Jimmie Knox learns to Play Well With Others.
And Take Care of the Toys He Has Now?
We might talk about getting him some more Toys.
Updated: Monday, 2 February 2015 9:39 AM CST
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