Every time I visit a Blog or a site I always look for a contact spot just in case I have a question. With a blog its easy, you leave a comment and if its a good blog it will get posted or not depending on the verbiage used.
At this location you can comment or E-Mail if you wish, thus adding a little privacy to your content. At most web sites, big and small, you can hit the link that says contact us and an mail browser opens and your in. Usually within 48hrs., you get some type of response.
Organizations that are looking for members sometimes use this as an opportunity to recruit memberships and track your i/p address. A fairly common practice and your Junk mail usually gets increased very soon after. Some use it as a hole to throw mail at and never respond, just making you feel like you did your part by contacting them.
I belong to several Automobile Organizations, both local and national. All of them have some type of interaction via merchandise or e-mail or membership. All of them are open to anyone who wishes to either join them in membership, as long as they meet the criteria in some cases, or ask questions at anytime.
A national organization needs to do this to keep its integrity and public image above the level of exclusivity found in certain "Mens Social Clubs" of years gone bye.
A certain Web site that has been preached about and touted as the answer to all the trouble in Car Shows with classes etc does just the opposite. It keeps no point of contact. No e-mail address. No way to ask for help from them or offer our help to them. No way for anybody to join this organization or even if they offered a membership.
Any organization that keeps its doors closed to a greater cross section of the hobby that it supposedly supports only to remain exclusive to those that run the organization does not represent the feelings or beliefs of those who truly do support the hobby.
The organization in Question, the National Car Show Association. I support the criteria that this organization has established over the years as far as making car shows more fair and profitable. It has the potential of making an imprint on the hobby. It can not and will not as long as it keep this air of exclusivity. I will support any organization that allows the general opinions of the hobby to be heard, before, during and after any rule making or decisions. I will support an organization that hears these opinions even if I disagree with the final outcome. I can not support an organization that will not allow this either by choice or by default. This to me is not why this organization exists. It Should be for the greater good yet it seems to be only for the Greater Ego of those that tout the being of this organization.
This reeks, possibly of dead fish.
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You know, I saw that and showed it to a couple of freinds who are in, or on the fringes of our hobby. Combine that with the general appearance of the site, and we all came up with the same opinion (I say opinion because we don't know for sure)but it looks like alot of window-dressing.
ReplyDeleteIt's also funny how in the 6 years I have been in the hobby I had NEVER heard of this organization until recently-neither has anyone in my family or immediate friends (I am friends with alot of car enthusiasts, and have family in the hobby in other states {Florida, NC, and Quebec})
Also strange how this same situation applies elsewhere.
Oh yeah, and most national organizations can be found on a google search.
Definatly interesting.
BUT one can purchase "The Complete Car Show" book by Vaughn publishing through the site or one can purchase "How to Run Car Shows" by Palmieri Concepts through the site BUT it's not as complete or concise as the above mentioned Complete Car Show book. Please also note who the "Standards/Procedures Committee Chair" person is.
ReplyDeleteJust looked up Custom and all you have to do is change the tranmission and or motor and you are a CUSTOM I don,t wonder see who is in charge of STANDARDS
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