[CAUT] Preaching to the choir; was University of Idaho Piano Tech Vacancy

[Fred Sturm]

I agree wholeheartedly. Our focus should be on web page and electronic  
communication. In saying that, I would add that Scott Thile, who has  
been our web slave seemingly forever, has made it clear that he is  
ready to be replaced. It is high time we focused on this area. I think  
our energy would be better placed working on communication of this  
sort than on PTG internal political workings.

Regards,
Fred Sturm
fssturm at unm.edu
“Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to  
shape it.” Brecht

On May 8, 2010, at 10:24 PM, David Love wrote:

> It’s the 21st century.  Annual mailers, published studies, snail  
> mail approaches are slow, ineffective too hard to update and  
> expensive.  It’s the information age and internet technology and  
> ideas should be used if you want to approach this.  Create a  
> customer support position within the guild for customers (not just  
> techs).  Using web based technology you can reach many more people  
> more easily.  People and institutions seeking information about how  
> to best meet their needs and/or hire can have someone to go to,  
> information that they can read, and even a place to publish their  
> listings (available for technicians) and get questions answered.   
> That exists already to some degree with how to find a technician and  
> the non-tech information that is available.  With an expanded  
> position (or a new one) in the home office dedicated to institutions  
> you can create a “what institutions need to know about piano  
> maintenance” type of link.  The idea can be expanded to function  
> within the scope of what already exists but the approach should not  
> be one of selling them something, rather it should be one of  
> information support.  In the long run that will open more doors than  
> a “why you should use an RPT and pay them more” approach.
>
> David Love
> www.davidlovepianos.com
>

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