Committee Membership

Good Morning Committee Members.  Our next meeting is Thursday, February 20th; if you don't have it on your calendar, let us know so we can refresh the appointment.  We then meet again right after the 90Minds Event, on March 20th. I've reached out to Brett Zimmerman and Kevin Moyes to see if they have interest in being part of our Engagement Team.  

I posted our message to the Sage 100 Community about our new Community Engagement Team; and have a response from Wayne Schultz that kind of surprises me; and I don't agree with most of his thoughts.  Let's keep this in mind for our next meeting. 

Wayne's comments below; here are my thoughts: 
1) we absolutely want all members to utilize the URGENT Area; even if they are not a daily poster.  That is a key reason to maintain membership. 
2) I don't think we are adding too many new positions, we already have a "moderator" without a title.  Someone that moves Urgent out of Urgent when resolved; it's just assigning a title to that person. 
3) Not every member is going to have the opportunity to attend in person events every year; and managing changes to memberships when they decide to come to the event or not come to the event is administrative manpower we don't have. 
4) On this point I agree, and our committee will work on how add value for both smaller firms and larger firms. 

No Action Required at this time; food for thought. 
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Wayne's Schultz Posting Response: 
A couple suggestions

1. 1. 1. Close down access to URGENT support unless you are a contributor. Don't like that? Dues are $4,000 annually and include access to urgent support. So, yeah, we have an option for you if you participate but not if your a weekend warrior. Sorry for everyone this rubs the wrong way.
      2. Too many different positions - I think the group needs to think up some type of award/reward for active members. Either access to resources that lurkers don't get or some other way to reward participation. 
      3. You essentially have two primary features: Consultant Facing ( community, webinars) and Community Facing ( Annual Conference)  - maybe this gets split into two types of members. An active community member must be approved annually while an active community member pays their money and attends the conference.
      4. The changing face of consulting means that now and into the future you have far fewer independent consultants and many more large partners ( who I refer as the BPAC or award winners) - the group must determine how to offer value that members of BPAC aren't getting from their own internal teams ( IMO this is the top issue)

So, maybe if you can't get into the community unless you're active then that's an incentive to be active? Certainly even the BPAC type member wants a look at the chatter that might warn of early issues with Sage 100...

In short I don't think designing for how things were when we started is going to work as effectively as designing for how they are now.

Just my .02 

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