Crabby Craig
New member
Hello all LIRA members. First, I want to apologize for my delay in putting up this post. This was an unusually hectic week for me on the family and business front. Second, I want to thank all of you for your confidence and faith in electing me to this position. I also want to thank Eric for all of his efforts. I do not think the membership could have made a bad decision in choosing either one of us. I look forward to Eric's input as he also has some very good ideas about promoting LIRA.
I started this new thread so that those members that would like to make suggestions or give their input about this subject will be able to do so as well as a place for me to keep the membership informed about what I am doing in my role as Public Relations Officer. The only thing I ask is that when making suggestions please be willing to help implement them also.
To start I would outline just a few of the ideas/projects I will begin working on in the near future.
The first item on my agenda is to continue to develop the contact I made recently with Scott Berkowitz, the advertising manager for Bowtie, Inc. (FAMA and Aquarium Fish Magazine). I think he will be an invaluable resource for making contact with potential vendors and donators for NERAC III. He attended NERAC II and was very impressed. I hope to also get them to cover next years conference as well as help us potentially advertise the event in the publications.
After last weeks meeting the thought struck me that we should reach out to the students at the schools where we have reef tanks placed. These kids are potential members and the future of our hobby and I would like to work with the board to develop a program through promotion and a potential membership discount to get them more directly involved with LIRA.
The other item I would like to work on as soon as possible is a joint meeting with the Boston area reef club. As many of you who attended NERAC might have noticed we had a lot of support from the Boston area, due in large part to Joe's lecture to their club last year. They were a great bunch of people and I think a closer relationship with them could be benificial to us all. Maybe we'll meet in the middle at Mohegan Sun!!!
Again these are just a few of my ideas. I look forward to your comments and suggestions and again thank you all for your confidence in me. I will endeavor to do the job to the best of my ability.
I started this new thread so that those members that would like to make suggestions or give their input about this subject will be able to do so as well as a place for me to keep the membership informed about what I am doing in my role as Public Relations Officer. The only thing I ask is that when making suggestions please be willing to help implement them also.
To start I would outline just a few of the ideas/projects I will begin working on in the near future.
The first item on my agenda is to continue to develop the contact I made recently with Scott Berkowitz, the advertising manager for Bowtie, Inc. (FAMA and Aquarium Fish Magazine). I think he will be an invaluable resource for making contact with potential vendors and donators for NERAC III. He attended NERAC II and was very impressed. I hope to also get them to cover next years conference as well as help us potentially advertise the event in the publications.
After last weeks meeting the thought struck me that we should reach out to the students at the schools where we have reef tanks placed. These kids are potential members and the future of our hobby and I would like to work with the board to develop a program through promotion and a potential membership discount to get them more directly involved with LIRA.
The other item I would like to work on as soon as possible is a joint meeting with the Boston area reef club. As many of you who attended NERAC might have noticed we had a lot of support from the Boston area, due in large part to Joe's lecture to their club last year. They were a great bunch of people and I think a closer relationship with them could be benificial to us all. Maybe we'll meet in the middle at Mohegan Sun!!!
Again these are just a few of my ideas. I look forward to your comments and suggestions and again thank you all for your confidence in me. I will endeavor to do the job to the best of my ability.
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