================= To: Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 21:06:35 -0500 From: "George and Susan Vrechek" Subject: Important OBC membership initiative To All OBC Members On behalf of the OBC Advisory Committee, I am kicking off a membership initiative. We lose a few people each year and our active membership numbers have remained relatively flat the past several years. My suggestion is that we all help maintain a strong, active membership base by encouraging appropriate collectors to join OBC. One of the ways of promoting membership is to establish goals, similar to what we do when we want to make progress on our collections. One goal, I'm suggesting, is for each of us to sponsor one new member at least once every two years, whenever feasible. Each new member needs three sponsors. With approximately 125 current members, achieving our goal would result in about 20 new members each year. New members and their sponsors get recognized though OBC. We might even have a future web page on the subject and come up with some other changes on the website designed to make it easy for new prospects to find us. We will also be sharing our membership initiative with OBC certified dealers so they can let people know we exist as well. Inactive members are encouraged to consider rejoining the active ranks, if their interests have been rekindled. In general, we want to look for collectors who share our interests and encourage them to join OBC. We need to see that their interests match those of the group but don't want to create undue obstacles for them to join. We appreciate the efforts of the many OBC members who have sponsored new members in the past and encourage all of us to keep in mind the goal of adding new members (and maybe even new cards!) We would appreciate any feedback on this subject through the Ramblings server and will report back periodically on any successes. George Vrechek ================= Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 06:18:29 -0700 (PDT) To: "OBC-announcements@yahoogroups.com" From: Glenn Codere Subject: Thanks server update Just a quick note to explain the delay in getting back to the membership onthe topic of the possible changes to the Thanks server. I've been tasked by the AC to coordinate this particular issue - summarising responses, etc. Unfortunately, due to some issues both at work and at home (nothing bad!), I've been unable as yet to dedicate the time needed to dothis properly. Please bear with us on this matter, and hopefully we shouldsee some movement over the course of the oncoming weeks. Thanks to all who participated in the poll, and to those who took the time to contribute their own thoughts, suggestions, and opinions. Glenn's MusicCollection at Rate Your Music Glenn's Sports Collection WantList ================= To: OBC Annoucements Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:57:59 -0400 From: Joe Isaac Subject: June report Hey everyone, It was a little quiet on the AC front this month and there is no new business to report. Remember, if you want the AC to consider any topics of importance, send an email to the Advisory group or on the Ramblings server. Your AC members are Glenn Codere, Mike Diamanti, Tom Housley, Ken Morganti,Mike Rich, George Vrechek and Mac Wubben.