[Ponte Alto] Recruitment

[james barker]

That is the problem with email you never know if the person got your message 
unless they reply unless you follow up with them which many people don't 
want to do. Email makes things easier and harder all at the same time.

Also sometime people are overwhelmed with emails and yours gets lost in the 
pile so to speak. Some times people think "I will come back to this email 
later" and forget because they have 50 other to get too. There is also spam 
filters; I have found a few emails sent from new folks in my spam filter 
folder.

I suggest any time you feel ignored you ry again you never know what is 
happening on the other end.

James de Biblesworth




----Original Message Follows----
From: <sabine at herald.sca.org>
Reply-To: The Barony of Ponte Alto <ponte-alto at atlantia.sca.org>
To: <ponte-alto at atlantia.sca.org>
Subject: Re: [Ponte Alto] Recruitment
Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 13:28:27 -0500 (EST)


 > Is there another/better way to set up mail aliases then?  Are aliases
 > needed  at all or can people just put in their real email address?  I
 > sent notes to  _two different addresses_ from the Baronial Contacts
 > Page/List and if both  went into the void then that's a major problem
 > for recruitment/retention.   I'm a New Yorker (read: stubborn) so I
 > started hunting down other contacts  and was going to try calling folks
 > after that--- but my major point, and  fear, that inspired me to write
 > to the list is this: what about a shy newbie  who just came to a
 > practice or event once and have written to one or several  people one or
 > more times?

I have to second what Bianca is saying here.  I have declined to play (in
other Kingdoms) with groups where contact attempts are ignored.  I am not
stubborn like Bianca.  I am arrogant. I figure (when I am active) I have
something to contribute to a group, and if they don't want me, I'll take
my skills elsewhere. In one case I recall a few kingdoms ago, I kept
running into members (and officers!) of a group I had given up on who
would rant about how other groups were siphoning off their members, and in
the meantime no one who tried to play with them could ever get a return
e-mail or phone call from any of the officers. It was mindboggling.

While living in Ponte Alto, I once sent an e-mail to 3 officers,
non-alias, about something, and got no response. It was an isolated
incident in an otherwise wellcoming and organized group.  But it
definitely came off to me as getting the cold shoulder, and if it were my
first contact with the group I'd have started e-mailing Ponte Alto's
neighbor's before I started looking for more Pontoons.

In short (I know, too late): No SCA group is a utopia, no one likes to be
criticized, but all officers can use a refresher course in curtesy once in
a while.

Sabine


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