Back to Columbia Evening July 30

[sutro...@sbcglobal.net]

Hi everyone,

Dumb question, but who is doing the posting on our CAA-provided Nationbuilder site here: http://norcal.alumni.columbia.edu/calendar ? 

I guess there are other Columbia Alumni pages, and other CU alumni groups with calendars, possibly without a lot of overlap although they may be planning events in Northern California..... So it seems like the sooner we can get the word out to people to post not just on our fabulous Mireles-created google calendar (thanks Matt) but also on the above outfacing regional site, the sooner we create an all-Columbia presence. 

So right now there is a Columbia College Alumni Association New Admit Sendoff on the 30th (who knew?) simultaneous with (just-planned) All-Columbia Mixer that same evening.  I think it'd be great to fold the latter into the former for all CC graduates, and do the mixer in September.  Can someone get the word out on the Nationbuilder calendar?  Here is their event:  https://secure.www.alumniconnections.com/olc/pub/COUC/event/showEventForm.jsp?form_id=191519

Pardon the duplicates on this message.   

Thanks and hope everyone's summer has been great so far!

Ellen

[Babak Soltanian]

Hi Nadine, 

Could you please help us with posting this event on Nationbuilder? I’ll try to join the tutorial and later help with posting SF events.

Thanks,

Babak

[Jaclyn Allison Chu]

Hi All

If you can hold off on posting the send off event, that would be great. 

That event is specifically for CC and SEAS alumni only. CC/SEAS colleagues did not ask me to ask the clubs to post or market more broadly. 

Each school did targeting marketing to their alums only. 

Events organizing by my school based colleagues should be kept separate from local club organized events, unless you hear from someone on campus requesting the club to open to the broader University community. 

Hope this makes sense. 

Thanks 

Jaclyn Chu '02CC

Director, Regional Clubs and Alumni Relations 

Sent from my iPhone. Please excuse typos. 

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[Nadine Rose]

I think that if we see something Columbia related that we aren't involved in, the best option here would be to hold of and/or check-in with the group organizers to see if promotion for them on our platform would be helpful. Jaclyn has provided very valuable feedback that these events may be restricted but regardless communication with the organizers should happen. 

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On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Matt Mireles <mpm...@caa.columbia.edu> wrote:

Why??

They didn’t ask you to market for them, so don’t. But if Norcal club members want to share the existence of these events with other alumni, I don’t see why we should be restricted from doing so unless the school specifically asks us not to.

It’s pretty simple to put an asterisk next to the event and say “for CC and SEAS graduates only.”

As it stands, we have a dearth of content and events for our members, many of whom are CC & SEAS alumni AND who want to know about these events, but are not aware for whatever reason. Artificially limiting what we share because we haven’t been granted explicitl permission seems counter-productive to our efforts at building the Norcal alumni community.

What’s the risk? What bad things could happen other than more alums being engaged and aware of these events??

 

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[Maureen Murphy]

Hi everyone, it would make sense to have the same person update the website and send out the emails since it is the same content.  I'm happy to take on this role. I recently received admin access to NationBuilder for the email platform. Does this access need to be extended to the website as well?  Also, I am awaiting training on NationBuilder before I can assume this role. I believe Jaclyn was going to schedule. I am available tomorrow for this training. Next week I will be traveling on vacation.  Thanks!  --Maureen

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[Stephen Wang]

Hi Maureen,

Admin access to email is the same for the website. Want to meet up this weekend for a quick 30 minutes or an hour? I can walk you through if needed. I think it also makes sense to combine the roles from a functional point of view.

_Stephen

[Stephen Wang]

Also - per last email string.

I believe the order of operations is the following for NB training:

- Matt to put together NB training schedule

- Jaclyn will work with NB staff to execute once schedule received.

-Stephen

On Jul 9, 2015, at 3:15 PM, Maureen Murphy <mmur...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Matt Mireles]

Why??

They didn’t ask you to market for them, so don’t. But if Norcal club members want to share the existence of these events with other alumni, I don’t see why we should be restricted from doing so unless the school specifically asks us not to.

It’s pretty simple to put an asterisk next to the event and say “for CC and SEAS graduates only.”

As it stands, we have a dearth of content and events for our members, many of whom are CC & SEAS alumni AND who want to know about these events, but are not aware for whatever reason. Artificially limiting what we share because we haven’t been granted explicitl permission seems counter-productive to our efforts at building the Norcal alumni community.

What’s the risk? What bad things could happen other than more alums being engaged and aware of these events??

 

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Sent from my iPone you sing Siri.

On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 1:41 PM, Jaclyn Allison Chu <jac...@columbia.edu> wrote:

[Matt Mireles]

This is a fair point.

Personally, I think we should come up with a formal policy on how to handle this matter as it has come up multiple times now. And I think that we as a club need to decide the matter for ourselves, taking Jaclyn’s perspective into account as a data point.

My concern is that we create an internal policy where we have to...

a) find the organizer, 

b) ask their permission 

c) wait for a response

…every time we talk about an event with our membership, then we’re never going to talk about anything, because of the effort and delay involved. 

We’re a volunteer organization. No one here has time for that.

My $0.02. 

Also, what’s the downside??? Why is it worth to effort??? This makes no sense to me.

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[Maureen Murphy]

Hi Steve, I would love to have someone walk me through the platform.  I'm leaving for vacation tomorrow, so i'm unable to meet up this weekend. Will the training that Jaclyn is setting up cover all of that? I'm not sure when that will occur, but maybe you and I can sit down as well when i return?  I will be back in town July 19 and available to meet. I'm also available for the formal NationBuilder training that week as well. Thanks all!  Looking forward to getting up and running.