X-Message-Number: 12510 From: "Joseph 1" <> Subject: RE: CryoNet #12505 - #12509 Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 08:49:18 -0400 > -----Original Message----- > Message #12509 > From: Daniel Ust <> > Subject: Re: Normal Cryonicists > Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 10:55:39 -0400 > > Even so, I do agree the wider point Charles makes above about recruiting. > There were two problems I noted with Alcor-NY. One was that the freaks > problem. The other was that most of the meeting was a business meeting. > Ergo, newcomers interested in cryonics got to see minutes read and heard > stuff that had very little to do with selling them on cryonics. > > I noticed the same problem with various libertarian meetings I've attended > over the years, which makes me think what should happen is a separate > business meeting should be held and newcomers should not be pressed to > attend those. Instead, special social or talk meetings should be > setup for > that. The goal should be to familiarize the curious with what cryonics is > all about - not with Robert's Rules of Order.:-) I wholeheartedly agree. The SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism) does this by explicitly holding their business meetings on different days from all the "fun" stuff-- presumably the reason people joined the SCA in the first place. Many different sub-cultural groups practice (or could learn from) this sort of differentiating; have events that are explicitly to recruit new members, events to promote socialization among already-existing members, and then hold meetings to take care of nuts-and-bolts operating issues-- the business meetings. And just as an aside, make sure that the socialization meetings are scheduled within a week or so of the recruiting events, so that new recruits have a chance to get involved right away. I would also say that there should be no such thing as a purely informational event to "get the word out" to the public. All such events are potential recruiting events, and should be treated as such. Joseph 1 () Core Sphere Member - NeoSapiens Combine http://www.neosapiens.org "NeoSapiens Awaken!" Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=12510