Let’s Talk!
Posted by Warren Enos on 31 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Future of Cal-MOAA
SAN JOSE COLUMNIST SHOWS THE WAY
In his opening San Jose Mercury News column writer Vindu Goel says, “Let’s talk about Silicon Valley.”
He refers to one of the most innovative places on earth. “People here do more than collect a paycheck–they obsessively invent new technologies that change the world, from the integrated circuit to the IPhone, from cancer drugs to the electric car.”
He says the culture makes Silicon Valley a fascinating place to live and work.
And then he says with his new column and related blog he hopes to “be a catalyst for a community conversation on how to improve our lives as employers, inventors, workers, and consumers.”
His columns are intended to merely get the discussion going. And he says he hopes people will talk with him–and to each other–on his blog and in the online comments portion of each column.
His final appeal is: “In this internet age, it’s easy for everyone to join the conversation. Please do.”
You can read Goel’s column here: http://www.mercurynews.com/portlet/article/html/fragments/print_article.jsp?articleId=6686168&siteId=568
We’re into the early years of the 21st Century, in transition from TROA to MOAA, and there are wonderful opportunities to serve the wider military and general communities.
We should be talking about those opportunities, as well as the challenges encountered.
About a dozen items have been posted to the CAL-MOAA weblog weekly and, frankly, there have been very few comments. We’re not talking to each other.
We’re trying to communicate effectively–identify appropriate messages, put them in the right format, choose the best medium (in this case, the weblog), get through the noise, and encourage everyone to take a close look, consider what has been written, seek understanding, and then provide feedback, essentially closing the communications loop.
Without feedback, without members talking, presenting their reactions, opinions, and views, we don’t really achieve high levels of communications effectiveness.
The Council’s appeal is the same: “In this internet age, it’s easy for everyone to join the conversation. Please do!”
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Warren,
You are doing an outstanding job in making our Weblog a real
source of information. Even though I may not be real interested
in many of the stories, I pick up a lot of ideas that can help our Chapter. Like reading a Newspaper, a lot of the B.S. is passed
over and we read what is of interest to us-which lately, is very
little. We now have another method of communcation that should
should help to bring the Chapters up to date on Legislation,
Meetings, Military Updates, etc. . I suspect that a large number
of Members are reading most of the Info, but don’t comment
because it doesn’t affect them , personally-(but it may).
Keep up the good work!!!
Jay Craddock
LCol. USAF (ret)