Re: Re: November/December

[Anonymous]

To me, an AGM always sounds like a stuffy affair and why would you travel to a meeting to hear that everyone agrees with the finances, votes in the old committee and then has a sherry and goes home (this is my view in general not for the TOC as I have never been). The French ones I go to also have a 30 minute thank you speech from the local mayor, wow!, that is fun.

So I go back to my point of joining up the AGM with some other event that would attract people. Something worth travelling for. You then get the best of both worlds and the AGM benefits from more members giving their views.

The Facebook page is great but it needs to show the face of the club – I have posted a few things but if you made it a group it would allow a little more banter on there. In fact the 2CV group is taking over from their Forum a little as the majority of people check FB each day, they then start to answer a lot of the technical questions and others chip in and a discussion ensure, near enough real time. Also events are more easily dealt with allowing people to indicate their intentions to go, not go or sitting on the fence.

This Forum should be open to all with just an indicator to who is a club member. I am a member of TU (forum open with coloured flag indicating members) and the UK Renault Classic Car Club (forum open with a star indicating members). Since I have been into Classic Cars, the first thing I do when I see a different model on Le Bon Coin is search for the appropriate forum – if I know there is help and info out there, I will go ahead and buy the car. (With the Traction it was different as I was given it and this forum did not exist then, so used the TU forum at that time).

We need more and more sources of technical wizards on this forum as most people are answering their own questions or tangent discussions start drifting off into zero conclusion. Example of a great forum – My son has an austin mini – he has an issue in the garage, “how do I swivel the bottle brick over the nobby grok” – he posts it up on the forum and within an hour he has several answers to the problem and he tries it and comes backs, “thank you so much everyone”. That is how the forum works for me (does not have to be that quick but you get my drift).

So in summary;
1. Join AGM to another event (possibly NEC)
2. Make Facebook page a group and encourage members to join (open group)
3. Make the forum open to all and encourage new technical gurus (if not it will diminish like the AGM numbers)

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