Committee Membership

Here you go! Please let me know if I've missed anything.

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Darcy Boerio
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Sorry I missed it. The timing was confusing to me as I wasn't sure if this was supposed to be a 7 pm ET event.

Some broad overall feedback on the membership committee and perhaps 90 Minds as a whole.

1. What is the membership committee's charge?

- Approve members ( this to me seems like it would be the purpose )
- Suggest events or activities that might increase participation ( probably )
- Approve and identify  ISVs ( probably )
- Determine additional ERP? ( I don't think this is a membership committee decision)
- Determine whether to admit customers ( I think this is a board decision - and if they can't give a yes/no or want to kick the can another year - time for another board )

The membership committee can make all sorts of suggestions but I don't think the committee has ( or should have ) must authority to implement those ideas when they are outside of their charge.

In my view, 90 Minds board of directors made the decision through action or inaction that this is a break/fix type organization that has a once yearly technical event to socialize and catch up with those we only know through the online community. Members primarily show up to a shared community when they need an answer to something technical. They go away once they receive that answer. There is really no compelling reason for them to log in daily. 

Expanding or migrating beyond the above is really more of a board directive. I'm unsure that it is or should be the charge of a membership committee to wade into those waters.

Just my .02 since I wasn't in the meeting and it's much quicker for me to jot this down than take an hour to discuss where I start to wander off-topic



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Wayne Schulz - Schulz Consulting - 860-516-8990
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I agree with Wayne that in the past, this committee has spent a lot of time discussing things that really aren't within our scope.

One item that isn't mentioned on Wayne's list is identifying and recruiting new members, and I think that's how we always end up in these conversations. We talk about who are potential new members, which leads to conversations of how to grow through additional member categories (end users, other ERPs). But as Wayne said, those are board level decisions.

I think once Anne gets a CRM set up, we can contribute to some email marketing ideas to help recruit new members that fall under existing membership categories.

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Darcy Boerio
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Original Message:
Sent: 06-11-2021 09:28
From: Wayne Schulz
Subject: 6-10-21 meeting notes

Sorry I missed it. The timing was confusing to me as I wasn't sure if this was supposed to be a 7 pm ET event.

Some broad overall feedback on the membership committee and perhaps 90 Minds as a whole.

1. What is the membership committee's charge?

- Approve members ( this to me seems like it would be the purpose )
- Suggest events or activities that might increase participation ( probably )
- Approve and identify  ISVs ( probably )
- Determine additional ERP? ( I don't think this is a membership committee decision)
- Determine whether to admit customers ( I think this is a board decision - and if they can't give a yes/no or want to kick the can another year - time for another board )

The membership committee can make all sorts of suggestions but I don't think the committee has ( or should have ) must authority to implement those ideas when they are outside of their charge.

In my view, 90 Minds board of directors made the decision through action or inaction that this is a break/fix type organization that has a once yearly technical event to socialize and catch up with those we only know through the online community. Members primarily show up to a shared community when they need an answer to something technical. They go away once they receive that answer. There is really no compelling reason for them to log in daily.

Expanding or migrating beyond the above is really more of a board directive. I'm unsure that it is or should be the charge of a membership committee to wade into those waters.

Just my .02 since I wasn't in the meeting and it's much quicker for me to jot this down than take an hour to discuss where I start to wander off-topic



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Wayne Schulz - Schulz Consulting - 860-516-8990
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