[DeTomaso] Old Website and Old Email Forum

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If there is ZERO tolerance "to those trying to be rude", I suggest you take a hard look at yourself. I've listened to the last two BOD calls, and I'm my opinion, you're rude to your own BOD members. I also find it offensive to suggest members that don't agree with you should not renew their membership because you've got "new members coming in monthly". That's not what I call leadership! Your "plethora of IT experts" comment and non "POCA dues paying members in your own name" both seemed to me were clearly intended to be rude!
Your ZERO tolerance only seems to apply to others. I'm working hard to grow my local chapter and to contribute to POCA. I like that you're offering new ideas, but the attitude I read in email and this forum post isn't helping. 



> On Mar 16, 2016, at 4:39 PM, Michael Shortt <michaelsavga at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>   Greetings,
>   As some of you have experienced, we tested the new website today.
>   while much of it worked great ( the public accessible sections) , some,
>   if not most of the backend features did not work
>   as planned.
>   The only way to tell was to do it and see what happened, now we know.
>   The right people are now involved and working to correct the issues.
>   There will be hard changes, the old forum archives will be available
>   only by a link to the old records.
>   the new forum is not done the same and the old information can not be
>   moved over.
>   The capabilities of the new forum will make it worth the change, if for
>   no other reason than
>   security which was once again violated this month and had shut down 1/3
>   - 1/2 of the list.
>   I have spent two months asking for volunteers to help with the
>   transition, nobody stepped up,
>   now suddenly we seem to have a plethora of IT experts, where have you
>   been?
>   We still need help to learn the new system and I'd love to involve more
>   people
>   and assign them specific pages within the site to manage, this would
>   certainly be a better way
>   of doing it and reduce the work load on just a couple of people to do
>   everything.
>   To those who have complained, thanks for helping us find areas than
>   needed help.
>   If you complained and are not a POCA dues paying members in your own
>   name, A thanks
>   to you as well, it's always great to know who you are.
>   Lots of people are working hard as volunteers on your behalf, ZERO
>   tolerance will be givenA
>   to those trying to be rude and counterproductive to the success of this
>   club, we simply do not need you.
>   Far too many A BOD members and others have sweated, toiled, and worked
>   hard for years.
>   POCA has existed for over 35 years always put up with nastiness, Some
>   leaders and workers have justA
>   shut down and just not communicated with the membership at all because
>   frankly, doing nothing is a lot calmer. A
>   Let me cheerfully inform everyone that our attitude is to put the club
>   first,
>   to be customer service freindly and to make the POCA experience great
>   for everybody,
>   Rome wasn't built in a day, I doubt any Pantera was completed in a day
>   and I know these improvements will come
>   more slowly than we want.A  I also know that once they are released,
>   massaged and worked on, it will be a far better
>   website experience.
>   If that isn't good enough for some of you, renewal is always a choice.
>   We have new members coming in monthly who seem
>   to have a good attitude and who want to see us progress into a brighter
>   future.
>   Michael Shortt
>   --
>   Michael L. Shortt
>   Savannah, Georgia
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>   [2]michael at michaelshortt.com
>   912-232-9390
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