Re: [Tower Ravens] EGM Agenda - publicity

I think tweeting is probably one step too far for my technologically-challenged brain atm (I still find my mobile phone enough of a challenge and I'm highly suspicious of Facebook) so I'm very grateful to those of you who are networking via Twitter. It seems to be having a positive and desirable effect. No one expressed any opinion to the contrary, so I assume that my view is broadly representative. S x PS Although I'm old and rapidly approaching senility, I'm not quite as naive as one of my friends who actually asked me, in all seriousness, if the raven on my shoulder in Mr. Foley's was a real one. Bless! From: hannorah.lee(a)hotmail.co.uk Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 23:35:05 +0000 To: kennedy.linds(a)gmail.com CC: team(a)towerravens.org.uk Subject: Re: [Tower Ravens] EGM Agenda - publicity Sorry Guys, I missed the agenda point on social media (late as usual!) Is it OK for me to continue tweeting from time to time? To be honest I mostly just follow people/other dance sides/orgs, rather than tweet. I also have access to the Facebook account to add posts/photos, same as Nic, Sue et al. Hx Sent from my iPhone On 23 Mar 2014, at 21:32, "Lindsey Kennedy" <kennedy.linds(a)gmail.com> wrote: Rachel was going to do hoodies, as she knew somewhere where we could get them as and when, rather than a batch job. All artwork is in the towerravensrapper google drive. Facebook Currently Myself, you (Ffion), Laura and Rachel have full manager access, and Nic, Sue, Nikki and Jo can post photos and messages to the account. All twitter posts automatically post through to facebook. Twitter There is no limit on how many people can post as us from twitter. Currently I know that myself, hannorah, you and Laura have access. It's become increasingly obvious that there needs to be more of a group responsibility for social media, as whoever is on the crawl or at the event needs to be the ones to tweet, and also respond to the messages occurring from an event. It's difficult for myself to respond to DERT messages for example, as I wasn't there... I would suggest that we concentrate on posting to twitter - but check there are no duplicates! On 23 March 2014 21:21, Ffion Mair <ffion_coch(a)hotmail.com> wrote: Hi Lindsey, As you're not going to be there tomorrow do you think you could send an update on how far we've got with hoodies? I think you were looking into options. Also, I wanted to ask a question about publicity/social media but neither you nor Laura are likely to be there. Who currently has access to the facebook and twitter accounts? Who should be posting on them? I think at the AGM we said it should only be Laura and Lindsey but I know Hannorah and I occasionally tweet. Is this OK? There are two unanswered 'congrats on DERT' messages in the facebook inbox so do we need more people responding to facebook? Would be good to hear your thoughts via email so we can discuss tomorrow. Ffion x On 23 Mar 2014, at 20:22, "Lindsey Kennedy" <kennedy.linds(a)gmail.com> wrote: I'm afraid I have other plans for Monday night now, but I've put my answers below. Could someone bring my petticoat to the crawl on Thursday? On 21 March 2014 22:44, Rachel Sheridan <rachel.sheridan(a)cantab.net> wrote: Hi all, Please find below the proposed agenda for the EGM on Monday. Please all remember to bring your diaries with you - I will be chasing you for sign ups, especially for the summer, as I am now being chased to reply! Thanks, Rachel - - - - - 1. Apologies 2. Elect this meeting's Chair 3. Reading of Nov 13 AGM minutes 4. Quick 2 sentence update from those positions that feel it necessary (Ffion; Rachel; Jo; Sue; Lindsey/Laura; Hannorah; etc?) 5. DERT - what went well, what could we have done better? Team did well, but what was sacrificed was the inclusion of people who weren't on the team on Monday evenings. I personally have felt excluded and frustrated at the fact I did not have a single practise session with the DERT set as number 1. The fact that very few non-team members attended for the month leading up to DERT despite (I presume) being charged for practise suggests they may have felt that there was little for them to contribute. It was agreed that there would be only 5 people dancing at DERT, but I feel that it turned into only 5 people dancing for the entire month leading up to DERT with the others just left practising/teaching on their own, and often sitting not dancing at all. 6. Dance developmenta. Should we keep the DERT dance as is or change it?Needs to be kept as a dance we can wheel out for a crawl, whilst we learn a new one. If we try altering it bit by bit, we wind up excluding people who haven't been able to make every practise and get up to speed with the current changes. Now we have a large side - that will take up more and more time. I think it's best to draw a line under this dance, give it a proper name, and learn a new one alongside it. b. Should we write a new dance? More exciting/funky figures? Choreograph the whole thing first or learn independent figures then string them together? We need a new dance. We've tweaked one dance for the last 2 years and have only danced that one dance - apart from our single attempt at Tenterden last year. I feel like we really should try and have 2 stock dances. We need to invest time in this now, before everyone goes away over the summer like last year. c. Should we learn a traditional dance?If we do - we need to think about how learning two different sets of stylings will affect the standard of dancing as a whole. I think that learning another non-traditional dance - where the current stylings across both dances can be uniform - would be better. d. Do we want to learn the DERT dance from different positions? Given a choice of where to put effort - I feel we should learn a new dance - but we do need two people to learn number one who can be tumbled on, as at present we have none. 7. Side attendance at festivals/etc - how high profile do we want to be? How many festivals per summer/year? Focus on day/weekend ones for this year, as we don't have the variety of dances for a longer festival at present. Getting the right range of numbers to a week-long one who can dance two dances might be a little ambitious. 8. Side ethos - do we want to be friendly? Good? Well known? Approachable? One of the best rapper sides in the country? Do we want to develop the Tower Ravens "personality"? 9. Practical details:a. Should we buy more swords?b. Are we happy with the practice hall - especially size?We have pretty much exhausted the possibilities in the Bank area, a change of hall would mean a change in location. c. What is the position on kit (Sue to update). Hoodies/tshirts, etc? I have had no luck finding more netting. I have one still-not-made petticoat. 10. Side size - are we worried?We have an imbalance of numbers in the side. Despite having a large number of members - we're still struggling to get a set together for this week's crawl for example. This is particularly apparent at number 1. A re-distribution of resources is required - or you wind up with some weeks that there are so many of a certain number that they just don't get a chance to dance, but you have nobody at a different number. Both situations are pretty miserable for the people involved. 11. Sign ups please! 12. 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