Attendees:Dan Podter, Mike London, Joe Kraut, Israel Gotay, Perry Levine, Jerry Alperstein, Maxwell Colon, Jerry Blum, Monte Mayer, Jerry Farris, George Weinstein, Nelson Mellitz, Norman Rosenshein, Alec Pandaleon, Mrs. Bailor, Bernhard Storch, Jake Kaatz, Warren Dolny, Harvey Charter
Staff: NED Herb Rosenbleeth; DOO Larry Richardson; Nikki Salzman
Subject: Information Technology
- We should use our technology to increase membership
- Every Post should have a web site
- The National web site should link to all of the Posts
- The JWV Forum is another important way for us to communicate – everybody should go on and start discussions. It’s a fast and an efficient way to communicate in real time
- Social Media
- We are greatly increasing social networking at the National level
- Posts should start employing this technology
- “Like” the JWV Facebook page – maximizing its impact by exposing posts to non-JWV members in our Facebook networks.
- We should increase the number of people using the computer – we should teach them if they’re not comfortable
- Send your email address to the National office – the number of email addresses available at National are low compared to total membership
- We need good, clear communication efforts to the members within our Posts
- Communication needs to go both National down and local up to National
- We need to communicate by both computer and telephone
- On the Post level, have dual communication plans – messages to the entire Post and messages to the most active members
- Computer use reduces cost, but it needs to be combined with things like The Jewish Veteran, Post web sites, emails, and person-to-person outreach
- We need more fill in the blank forms
- National should require every Post commander and Quartermaster to have a generic email address (ex: JWV126@...., JWV126Quartermaster@....), these email addresses should be handed down to the new person holding the position so National always has a way to get in touch with them.
