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Collaboration between IET & volunteers

Alex Barrett
I've raised the issue of collaboration between the IET staff and volunteers before, and the fact that IET development managers and other staff are working within the regions without keeping the local volunteers informed. They set up business and academic partnerships, promote the IET as a body, and run local events, but all without letting the local boys know what they are doing. I've just discovered that the IET are running a local registration event, less than a week away, and I learned of it from another body. Why? The IET knows what the local volunteers are doing, CRM's see to this, so why not feed information the other way too.

I like to refer to it as "mushroom syndrome", keep us in the dark and feed us... compost?
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    Amusing the local members (1) would be better than "unpaid staff", which seems to be more the direction in which things are going (have gone?).


    There is a large body of work to be done in valuing members and volunteers, I would like to see the IET positioned to support engineers, members, and volunteers.  Rather too often the impression gained is the other way around: volunteers supporting the IET!  I hope that the proposed Volunteer Board will help with this, I really want it to work.


    Keith


    (1) amusing the local members would at least imply a living community with vibrant communications between the LN committee and members.  A colleague recently made the comparison between the 4K members in the LN area and the 154 members signed up to MyCommunity.
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    Amusing the local members (1) would be better than "unpaid staff", which seems to be more the direction in which things are going (have gone?).


    There is a large body of work to be done in valuing members and volunteers, I would like to see the IET positioned to support engineers, members, and volunteers.  Rather too often the impression gained is the other way around: volunteers supporting the IET!  I hope that the proposed Volunteer Board will help with this, I really want it to work.


    Keith


    (1) amusing the local members would at least imply a living community with vibrant communications between the LN committee and members.  A colleague recently made the comparison between the 4K members in the LN area and the 154 members signed up to MyCommunity.
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