[CBW_Exec] A second item for your consideration (BWe and CBW membership)

Wed Jun 3 18:05:20 CDT 2009

Thanks so much for your response Kathleen. Let me weave responses below (with *SC). Great ideas! Think these will lead us in some very productive directions. 

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From: cbw_exec-bounces at tamu-commerce.edu on behalf of Kathleen Baca
Sent: Wed 6/3/2009 6:02 PM
To: Conference of Basic Writing Executive Board
Subject: Re: [CBW_Exec] A second item for your consideration (BWe and CBW membership)

Hi, Shannon and all.  I'm confused.  We/Kelly collected names, right? I'm
not sure where and how they were collected, but I'm guessing that it was
at CCCC or other conferences or via conversations somewhere? 

*SC: exactly, and via the various listservs. 

Anyway, those
who gave their names wanted to be more connected to CBW? Or something
else?

*SC: Yes, they wanted to be more connected to CBW. 

I think, if the idea is that we want more positive attention to BW and
CBW, 
*SC: Yes! Exactly. 

we have a discussion listserv and we have a facebook page and we have
an ejournal and we have a website . . . . It doesn't seem to me like we
need another form of communication, just more activity with what we
already have.

I'm open to alternative views, but that's my initial take.  As for how to
get more activity, we could:
- each pledge to add 1 or 2 or 5 people to CBW listserv

*SC: Do we have access to the CBW listserv to add people? Oh, but you are suggesting we encourage them to join the CBW listserv. Good!

- divide up Kelly's list and encourage them to join
- each contact one person about reading, contributing to, and making a
suggestion about BWe
- each ask someone at another institution, as well as our own, to put the
word out about the website, listserv, BWe, and facebook
- blah, blah, blah.

I'm certain I'm missing info, and that may be part of my confusion, but I
hope this helps you all clarify things for me.  Thanks again for all that
you do for BW.  kb

*SC: I like it! What about the rest of you? Other ideas? Wanna riff on these? What do we do next? (and I'm not sure I see you are confused at all, Kathleen!)

> Hi, all--
>
> Just wanted to add a second item to the table, which we can push to the
> background as we continue to explore ways to fold our new membership into
> the mix (much more pressing matter, as Kelly collected this list of 150
> new
> members for us more than two months ago! Thanks, Kelly!)
>
> So . . .
> 1. What do we want to do with the names Kelly collected for us? These
> folks
> are not on the CBW-L listserv, or at least they are not supposed to be.
> Kelly requested that only those who weren¹t should send her their names
> and
> contact information. She has a couple of excellent suggestions, including
> beginning a new listserv. Perhaps one we could use just to announce
>> BWe stuff<ala Reflections and other good models for marketing? Something
>> we
>> could tie to the blog Liz has created for us? Something that includes,
>> once or
>> twice a year, information regarding all the various benefits associated
>> with
>> joining CBW and how to join? Something that helps folks see the various
>> goals
>> associated with upcoming projects, like our social justice policy
>> initiative.
>>
>> The difference between this list and CBW-L could be that it is a list
>> for
>> receiving messages not discussing. For online discussions, we have
>> CBW-L. We
>> could easily establish such a list at A&M-Commerce.
>>
>> What we¹d need is someone to generate content and send out these
>> notices,
>> including crafting the initial notice. Perhaps we also need a membership
>> committee. I think we do. Anyone want to take this on? Organize it? I¹m
>> afraid
>> I can¹t take any lead on this, but (as always!) I¹m happy to run my
>> mouth on
>> the subject. On any subject. :0)
>>
>> What about this? What about other ideas? A major goal for CBW before
>> 2010
>> meeting was to increase membership and visibility. Seems that doing
>> something
>> with those names is crucial in this respect. (Note: Kelly isn¹t
>> responsible
>> for the long wait between gathering names and having this important
>> conversation. I am. I just couldn¹t get to it and wasn¹t really sure how
>> to
>> proceed. So I didn¹t. Sorry, folks! So sorry.
>>
>> 2. BWe: CELJ has just put out some best practices for editors of online
>> journals. We are well on our way to fulfilling the best practices in our
>> newest incarnation of the journal. More is necessary, it seems. The
>> deadline
>> for our next issue is June 15, so soon we¹ll need to have this
>> discussion more
>> rigorously and directly. Especially amongst the current editorial board.
>> Here¹s what they say: http://www.celj.org/editor.php (see Best Practices
>> for
>> Online Journal Editors).
>>
>> Perhaps we need to get the board together to discuss these issues. Just
>> the
>> editorial board? If you are not on the editorial board and want to weigh
>> in,
>> please do! If not, no problem. We¹ll move this convo off list to the
>> editorial
>> board around the time submissions are due.
>>
>> Also: update on website update coming. We may be over our biggest hurdle
>> and
>> very, very close to getting this crucial update completed.
>>
>> Yours,
>> Shannon
>
>
>
>
> --
> Shannon Carter, PhD
> Associate Professor of English
> Department of Literature and Languages
> Texas A&M University-Commerce
> Commerce, Texas 75429-3011
> Shannon_Carter at tamu-commerce.edu
> http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/scarter/
> http://www.shannoncarter.net
>
> Hi, all--
>
> So Kelly has gathered a bunch of names together in an attempt to energize
> our CBW group. Thanks, Kelly!
>
> The question from here (and I should have asked much earlier) is this:
> What
> do we want to do with these names? How do we bring them into the fold?
>
> Thanks for your help and great ideas!
>
> --Shannon
>
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Kathleen A. Baca
English and Communication Department
Doña Ana Community College
MSC 3DA
PO Box 30001
Las Cruces, NM 88003
575-527-7626
kbaca at nmsu.edu

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