Re: Membership decrease

[krombhol@teclink.net (Paul Krombholz)]

Neil wrote:

>An AGA member at NEC asked me if they would be getting a membership
>renewal. I said no. (Is that true?). I wonder how many members that were
>removed might have renewed if there was a renewal letter or card. Is there
>a low effort way to do this?
>Jack, could a post card with printed labels be generated by computer? Maybe
>by a print shop.
>Erik, any ideas?
>--Neil


I have a motion on the floor for AGA to buy Jack the Filemaker program so
that he could use a real database manager to keep membership data in,
rather than Excel.  With Filemaker, it would be a cinch to find all the
members whose renewal is coming up and print out a renewal message.  If we
don't want to do renewal mailings, it might work to print the renewal list
in TAG.  I also am volunteering to help Jack with the transfer of data.  I
also have the questionnaire that Olga Betts developed, and we need to make
decisions about using it.  The questionaire data should definitely be put
in a database manager.

Below is some (not all) of the discussion on using Filemaker:



Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 14:52:39 -0500
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From: donburns@shadow.net (Don Burns)
To: krombhol@felix.TECLink.Net
Subject: Plant Records/Indexing Schemes
Status:

In the middle of the discussion thread on labels someone asked about plant
inventory schemes.  I have a couple of file formats acquired from netters,
one of them being Clark Riley and the other Rob LeBlanc, that are quite
good.  They run with the application called FileMaker.  These files are in
the Macintosh format but are translatable into a PC format, and FileMaker
for Windoz will do this.  These formats were shared with me freely with no
strings attached, so if anyone is interested let me know and I'll email the
formats.  Just remember that you must have the FileMaker application to use
them.

Don

Don Burns                    Plantation, Florida (near Ft. Lauderdale)

<epur01@email.mot.com>      or       <donburns@shadow.net>


I think if the folks involved feel that this program [Filemaker] is the
best one for
the job, AGA should spend the money and buy it for Jack.  Membership is a
BIG job.  I think anything we can do to make it easier and/or more
efficient is great.  Even with Paul offering to make it into a database, I
would think it would be better if both he and Jack were using the same software

Karen


....Yes, an XL file can be imported directly into FileMaker. If you need any
help with it I would be pleased to help out, as I ran a large database in
FileMaker on the "fun" machines for 2 years.
And DOS is not the Evil Empire -- it is simply "Macintosh '94".
David [Liss]


>Jack wrote:
>

>>......If AGA wants to spend $250 for a copy of FileMaker, then I will be
>happy
>to make the switch.  My employer has bought me a laptop, which removes
>most of my previous
>objections.  I have been scouring the markdown bins of our local
>stores, but have been unable to find a discounted copy of
>FileMaker...............

I so move.

We have been talking for a long time about getting data on the plants
members are keeping, types of lighting, systems of CO2 delivery, etc.  If
we are ever going to start doing this, use of a database manager is the
only way to go.


Paul K.

Paul Krombholz, in Central Mississippi, where the chance for more rain
tonight is gone.  


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