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Communication between club and members
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11-05-2015 10:47am#1
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Thanks for the replies & Thanks for the Merge also
I joined a club recently (80-euro incl CI-licence). Informed no texts as costs too much ; no emails as takes too much time ; only facebook. Eventhough I informed them I don't use facebook I was told, only facebook and given two links to look-up there.
A weekly cycle commenced and I attended the first. Missed two after due to other commitments on that day/time ; 4th week I went to original location. A cyclist who happened to pass by informed me the location had changed. Only for her passing by I would NOT have been aware of the location change at all.
No contact made by the club.
Am I expecting too much for some effort to be made by the club Secretary (who I don't know holds the post btw) ; don't know about AGM; meetings; club-rides outside of that weekly one where on the first night I was given the sheet with the details for the following weeks for that day/time.
Am I expecting too much for some correspondence to members, especially when they know I don't use facebook?
I always go out of my way to help people. Always do more than necessary if I am in a position to do so and if someone contacts me asking initially to inform me of a possible problem.
This just seems wrong to me. Am I expecting too much? I'l stay with the club for this year, but will have to think twice about renewing.
Even my membership was a problem. Instead of updating my account a new one was setup with CI. Each time I logged into my own account it kept asking me to renew my membership, even after I paid my 80euro. It was the very prompt professional member working with CI who responded who found the club had set up a new account for me instead of asking that my own original be updated.
No communication just seems wrong to me,
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Thanks for the replies & Thanks for the Merge also
I joined a club recently (80-euro incl CI-licence). Informed no texts as costs too much ; no emails as takes too much time ; only facebook. Eventhough I informed them I don't use facebook I was told, only facebook and given two links to look-up there.
A weekly cycle commenced and I attended the first. Missed two after due to other commitments on that day/time ; 4th week I went to original location. A cyclist who happened to pass by informed me the location had changed. Only for her passing by I would NOT have been aware of the location change at all.
No contact made by the club.
Am I expecting too much for some effort to be made by the club Secretary (who I don't know holds the post btw) ; don't know about AGM; meetings; club-rides outside of that weekly one where on the first night I was given the sheet with the details for the following weeks for that day/time.
Am I expecting too much for some correspondence to members, especially when they know I don't use facebook?
I always go out of my way to help people. Always do more than necessary if I am in a position to do so and if someone contacts me asking initially to inform me of a possible problem.
This just seems wrong to me. Am I expecting too much? I'l stay with the club for this year, but will have to think twice about renewing.
Even my membership was a problem. Instead of updating my account a new one was setup with CI. Each time I logged into my own account it kept asking me to renew my membership, even after I paid my 80euro. It was the very prompt professional member working with CI who responded who found the club had set up a new account for me instead of asking that my own original be updated.
No communication just seems wrong to me,
kerry4sam
Just register some random email address with facebook and then only use facebook to keep informed of information from the cycling club. Plenty in our club do not use facebook except to keep informed of club news, results o races and photos from the club.0 -
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Jesus the cost of joining some of those clubs :eek: My club is €15 to join, €10 if you're a student. €80/50 seems like an awful lot, although I have only even been a member of one so it might be the norm.
Re communication, the club I'm in use Facebook, twitter, email, a load of us have each others numbers, there's a whatsap group if we're going away on a training camp. It's not a big club though, maybe it's harder if there are a load of members.
Sorry to hear you're not having a good club experience kerry4sam, but as others have said, set up a fake Facebook and use it to keep up to date with it? If it's a big club and you're a new member maybe they just can't keep track of who's on and who's off Facebook. As suggested maybe put yourself forward to organise communications? Maybe it's just one person who's organizing everything?
My club absolutely rocks. If I went full time working for them I couldn't give half back what it has given me. It even has the coolest kit
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Jesus the cost of joining some of those clubs :eek: My club is €15 to join, €10 if you're a student. €80/50 seems like an awful lot, although I have only even been a member of one so it might be the norm.
Re communication, the club I'm in use Facebook, twitter, email, a load of us have each others numbers, there's a whatsap group if we're going away on a training camp. It's not a big club though, maybe it's harder if there are a load of members.
Sorry to hear you're not having a good club experience kerry4sam, but as others have said, set up a fake Facebook and use it to keep up to date with it? If it's a big club and you're a new member maybe they just can't keep track of who's on and who's off Facebook. As suggested maybe put yourself forward to organise communications? Maybe it's just one person who's organizing everything?
My club absolutely rocks. If I went full time working for them I couldn't give half back what it has given me. It even has the coolest kit
Are you sure your club is registered with cycling Ireland their fee is €30 minimum for an adult hence why ours is €55. 30 for CI 25 for club.0 -
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Thanks for your replies everyone
Not questioning the cost to join as the club does Wonderful work and involved competitively in almost all apsects of Cycling, so taking out the CI membership, it's 50euro for the year for a Great Cycling Club.
It's just the lack of communication I've issues with. Whenever I was on a committee for any Society through the years the initial time-consuming manner was in collating the membership data and creating databases for varying aspects of the society as not everyone would receive the same/all info etc etc.
After that then, it was minimal time involved with sending out texts and e-mails to ensure all involved were aware of what they needed to know ; when they needed to know ; you know.
I don't want to have to bow down to the pressures of having to re-activate my Facebook account just to stay abreast of a club and club activities. So I won't! I de-activated my account for very personal reasons and it will stay that way too.
Sending e-mails and/or texts would not take too much time if the interest to do so was there. It's not. I sent an e-mail to the club and it took 3-days for a reply to inform they only use facebook. Just seems wrong to me as you might have guessed already.
The time involved by whoever is responsible is minimal if the interest is there to do so. As I said, it's the initial work that would be most time-consuming; after that; even one correspondence a week would suffice to inform of club activities for the following week. 24hrs a day with 7-days in a week ; to not be able to find the time to do something like this is nothing short of despicable in my eyes and whoever holds the communication responsibility does not deserve it as it does not act in the best interests of the club in my eyes and that should be key!
Anywhoo, Thanks Again for your replies & suggestions,
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Thanks for your replies everyone
Not questioning the cost to join as the club does Wonderful work and involved competitively in almost all apsects of Cycling, so taking out the CI membership, it's 50euro for the year for a Great Cycling Club.
It's just the lack of communication I've issues with. Whenever I was on a committee for any Society through the years the initial time-consuming manner was in collating the membership data and creating databases for varying aspects of the society as not everyone would receive the same/all info etc etc.
After that then, it was minimal time involved with sending out texts and e-mails to ensure all involved were aware of what they needed to know ; when they needed to know ; you know.
I don't want to have to bow down to the pressures of having to re-activate my Facebook account just to stay abreast of a club and club activities. So I won't! I de-activated my account for very personal reasons and it will stay that way too.
Sending e-mails and/or texts would not take too much time if the interest to do so was there. It's not. I sent an e-mail to the club and it took 3-days for a reply to inform they only use facebook. Just seems wrong to me as you might have guessed already.
The time involved by whoever is responsible is minimal if the interest is there to do so. As I said, it's the initial work that would be most time-consuming; after that; even one correspondence a week would suffice to inform of club activities for the following week. 24hrs a day with 7-days in a week ; to not be able to find the time to do something like this is nothing short of despicable in my eyes and whoever holds the communication responsibility does not deserve it as it does not act in the best interests of the club in my eyes and that should be key!
Anywhoo, Thanks Again for your replies & suggestions,
kerry4sam
Last suggestion Kerry4sam go to the clubs AGM and propose they get a club phone similar to what we use as mentioned earlier only 240euro a year, 5 of your memberships will cover the cost0 -
^^^ I would attend the AGM if I knew when it would be held. Since I don't use facebook and therefore don't receive any correspondence now; I won't hear about the AGM. Questioning my attendance at the weekly cycle that I actually do know about.
Really appreciate hearing about the effort your clubs go to to promote cycling ; to keep the interest there ; to keep people informed of the latest ; to keep people peddling and wanting to get out there cycling safely.
Thank You All,
kerry4sam
/I am just extra-grumpy today. My linear tibia bruising that appeared 4-days ago (that I don't know how appeared) is only starting to go down ; had to cut my morning cycle short due to back-pain ; so I'm back on the ice-packs and pain-killers.
Might be in a better mood tomorrow to communicate nicer myself
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^^^ I would attend the AGM if I knew when it would be held. Since I don't use facebook and therefore don't receive any correspondence now; I won't hear about the AGM. Questioning my attendance at the weekly cycle that I actually do know about.
Really appreciate hearing about the effort your clubs go to to promote cycling ; to keep the interest there ; to keep people informed of the latest ; to keep people peddling and wanting to get out there cycling safely.
Thank You All,
kerry4sam
/I am just extra-grumpy today. My linear tibia bruising that appeared 4-days ago (that I don't know how appeared) is only starting to go down ; had to cut my morning cycle short due to back-pain ; so I'm back on the ice-packs and pain-killers.
Might be in a better mood tomorrow to communicate nicer myself
Why not set up a mock Facebook account, with no personal information and just use it like a an email account for cycling? No one needs to know you're n Facebook, just use it for your club communications? Use it, rather than it using you!
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