Greetings Everyone:

 

There seems to be a lot of confusion on the Speaker Rotation roster, and it makes it very difficult for Christine or Shannon to keep it up to date.  I suggested last week that I add an "ONLINE BNI Calendar" on my website that can be maintained by Shannon or Christine as opposed to the spreadsheet.  This will require members to check the calendar as opposed to receiving weekly roster updates, but that takes very little time.

 

I feel we need to stick with the speaker rotation but if something comes up and you can't make the meeting (you are scheduled to speak at), I don't see anything wrong switching slots with someone, but it will be incumbent on the members to let Christine know so she will be able to update the "ONLINE Calendar" as opposed to changing the spreadsheet and having to redistribute every time.  If the group supports the "Online Calendar" idea, I would spend time with Christine and Shannon to train them on how to maintain the Calendar (it is really easy).  We need to resolve this dilemma now, because as our membership grows it will just get worse and it won't be fair to Christine or Shannon attempting to keep up with it.

 

We need to discuss this during announcement phase of the meeting tomorrow, and we need suggestions to simplify this, if the group does not support the "Online Calendar".

 

On a different note, please keep your eyes & ears open to any and all potential clients for referrals to our members.  There are some members who haven't seen a referral in months, and we need to try harder to spread the news.  These individuals have given many referrals but have not received any in return.  The economy has a lot to do with this, but we need to be creative, so everyone benefits from their membership.  This will also improve as we find new members in order to expand the networking base.

 

I hope to see everyone tomorrow at 8:15 AM at First Centennial Title.  If you can arrive early, please do so to help Christine to rearrange the room for our meeting so she doesn't have to do this on her own.  I cannot thank Christine enough for her providing us such a great venue to meet.

 

Thank you for everyone's support, and hopefully 2008 will be a banner year for growing our group and passing referrals.

 

Bob Rappaport

SierraTech LLC

(775) 831-1232