We have recently done a clean-up of our membership database. I have
been very pleased with the returns in the last two weeks, especially with
verifying membership details. Many duplicated membership have been
removed.
The latest count is 5,250 live individual members. Out of this total,
about 2,300 members read the club’s forum regularly. So, we
can see there is a difference between those who read the club
forum, those who are inactive members and those who are regular
participants.
One of our weakness is our inability to chat and interact with those who are
members, but are inactive, for different reasons. Very few active
members volunteer or raise their hands to befriend this silent group. I
do not know why.
However, I am glad to see members like Jassmine Teo, Frisna Tan and YatSing
put in effort to voice out for this silent group. Joy Chuang is also
looking after a group. Some of us may think there is not much we can do,
for those who are busy, shy and afraid to join the more senior and active
ones. But, if you can do a little, this will be go a long way to
welcome the quieter ones.
Our EOs for different activities have done a good job maintaining their
activities.
So, again, if you are a member, have been participating in SHC
activities, and have not been an EO, please consider doing your part to be a
Befriender. You only need to take care of 10 – 20 members. I
hope to see you raise your hand.
Terence Seah
Dear Terence
Wd appreciate if you could advise on the role of a Befriender. What does he/she have to do?
I’m interested to find out more.
Regards,
Gabriella
Hi Gabriella #1,
As a Befriender, I will allocate 10 – 20 new or never participate members to take care off. Essentially, give them a warm welcome, encourage them to sign into the forum, write an intro of themselves, encourage them to take part in activities and be active.
Once the member is free to fly on their own, you can let them go, but they can always view you as someone they can turn too, if they are shy.
Most of this work can be email; and some communications via phone. The rest I leave it to the Befriender. Key work is to encourage them to participate.
Terence Seah
Terence,
We have to be mindful to those silent SHC members that chose not to take part in any SHC activities. We have to respect their decision. However there may be a group who just do not know how to make the first move or to gain access to the Internet to check what activities are available monthly.
I am interested to have a try and to touch base with the latter group. Nowadays, you can gain access to the Internet even without a computer at home. Each member may have different problems; we have to understand them first before discussing with them the next step.
hewlee
Hey can we not have a live chat for members to chat on line, transfer information , etc?
A chat room is quite easy to do.