IGBO Member Blog

Bring IGBO Home ~ Hosting an Annual or Mid-Year Event

Have you ever considered that many people have never seen your part of the country, not to mention your home town??  IGBO is about Fellowship, Unity and Communication, what better way to show any of that than to HOST an Annual or Mid-Year Event.  Show us what your community is all about!!  If you are wondering what it takes to do that you can find reference materials on the IGBO Website.  The most informative is "The Bid Process", which shows you what is required to submit a Bid to host an Annual or Mid-Year Event.  Other Resources include "The Tournament Handbook" and the Policies and Procedures in the IGBO Member Handbook.  The undetaking of hosting an Annual or Midyear event is no small task, its takes committment, teamwork and a passion for bowling.  There are many out in the membership who you can find to advise you, help in small ways and assist however they can to make us get to enjoy your town.  So if you have an interest in looking at the possibility of hosting an Annual or Mid-Year Event, post your comments here and listen, learn and then BID. 

In Unity, Fellowship, and Communication

Paul Burnett

Chair - Bid Standards

Items of interest for our tournament members!

As the chair of this committee we have been collecting feedback from tournament directors and the bowling community at large via the einfo groups. We now have this tool to gather information also. I would like to hear from tournament directors past and present as well as the attendees of tournaments on their thoughts.

1.What do think is a fair re-rate policy? Tournament directors I would like if you will share your tournaments re-rate policies.

2.Do you normally accept non-IGBO league bowlers or non-IGBO members to your tournament?

3.What do you feel are fair average divisions for Optional Scratch and Scratch Masters? If your tournament does one or both of these events please share your division break downs.

4. When during the Annual and Mid-Year events is a convenient time for this committee to meet and how much time should be allotted?

Sorry I wasn't able to attend in Denver and I look forward to seeing many of you in OKC as well as here in Atlanta next year for Annual. Hope you are having a good summer and are looking forward to the upcoming season of bowling.

Take care and I look forward to your responses on the above questions.

Yours in fellowship, unity, and communication,

Skip George, Chair of the Tournament Forum Committee

Region 8: The Members Blog is Now Live

Hi all

 

The Member's Blog is now Live.

 

IGBO Member Blog (Private, Openly Accessible): http://igbo.typepad.com/members

This will be our public blog for IGBO members. There IGBO Board members, committee chairs and invited IGBO members will post articles to the general membership. This can include board-approved topics that might solicit comments or open discussion. The blog is labeled as private in that I have blocked search engines from finding it. (Mike Tamburrino).

I will be submitting my reports via the blog but until everyone feels comfortable using it, I will also include a Word document.  However, it is important that all reps and tournament directors in particular take the time to learn how to use and respond on the blog as this will be the main lines of communication for the coming bowling season.

I will continue to write individual emails when I have to deal with a subject that is private in nature and only concerns certain individuals or tournament directors.

Over the next 3 weeks I will be out of town starting on July 21 and returning on August 8.  Although I will have my laptop with me, I may not have the time to respond to your comments until I return.

Online renewals will be beginning soon.  I will send you a detail description as to how this will be done.  You will still need to mail in your check to me along with a copy of your census form which I will then forward on to the secretary and treasurer.

Two weeks ago Ft Myers came back after a year off and had a very successful tournament.  When I get the final results I will send that information to you.  There were, however, two 300 thrown by Gabe Him and Daryll Johnson and a lot of winners from Atlanta (not me) and Orlando.  Details to follow soon.

According to my records all leagues and tournaments with the exception of the following, have received their IGBO posters and the updated cd containing the IGBO Bylaws and Policies and Procedures (P&P).  If you are not listed below and have not received these items, please let me know.  Kings & Queens and GRABIT (Raleigh), A League of Their Own (Sarasota), Family Affair (Augusta) and Kocktail Bunch (Kenner, LA).  These should be send out to you on Monday, July 16.

Dixie has lost a long time bowler, committee member and tournament director.  Jeff Blake passed away on Friday, July 13 after a long battle with cancer.  For those wanting more information, as soon as I know the details I will provide that information to you.

I am sending this as an email but I am also copying it as a blog entry.  If you have comments, practice sending them via the blog.

Ray Krasneck, Southern Regional Director

Welcome from the President

Welcome to the IGBO Member Blog.

Bookmark this site for your reference: http://igbo.typepad.com/members/

I hope that you find that this is an excellent resource for expanding communication within our organization.  You will find that this tool is very easy to use.  It is an efficient way to communicate and create discussion without sending and replying to multiple emails.

We will still keep the Yahoo eInfo group in place. However, we will primarily use that tool for posting blast messages and announcements to members. The IGBO Member Blog should be more useful for issues, discussions, policies, and information storage.

Please let us know your comments after using this new resource.  I hope that you agree that this is a great addition to the other resources that IGBO has available.

All of the committees are in place and we are completing the transition from the outgoing Board members with the incoming.

If you want to remain abreast of all current IGBO issues, I highly recommend that you subscribe to this blog. You will be notified each daily of new issues brought up. Use the subscription links on any post or blog page.

I look forward to working with you this year.

In Unity, Fellowship, & Communication

Greg Edenfield, IGBO President

IGBO Blog and Committee Chairs

IGBO Online Communications committee and Board are now launching our NEW IGBO MEMBER BLOG to the general membership. The board has been testing driving this Blog for a month now with great success. To view our blog, go to http://igbo.typepad.com/members/. You should also see a link to our new blog on the IGBO.org website.

Within our New IGBO Member Blog, committee chairs (as well as Board members) will be allowed to post articles for discussion to the general membership. For example, Tournament Forum committee might ask members for their thoughts on Tournament Fundraisers. What works and what does not?

Each IGBO Committee chair (or co-chair) will be sent an email invitation shortly to become an author of the IGBO Member Blog. Please accept this invitation and follow the prompts to set up your Blog author access. Then you can post articles of information related to your committee and see members comment on them.

If you need help using the IGBO Member Blog (or don't even know what a blog is), refer to the Blog Help category for a list of helpful topics and FAQs. If you have any further questions, please feel free to ask me, Mike Tamburrino at webmaster@igbo.org or anyone on the IGBO Board.

Yours in Unity, Fellowship and Communication,

Mike Tamburrino
IGBO Online Communications Chair

Tournament Fundraisers

Russell Thatcher, Co-diretor of the new Chuzapalooza tournament in Tucson, AZ rasied a very interesting question on our Yahoo eInfor group last month. Now that we have a IGBO Blog, his question might be better suited here to start discusion. This way we can see all the replies (comments) in one consolidated area.

Here is his orignal post/query:

Hello All,

I'm looking for suggestions for some fundraisers for the Chuzapalooza tournament in Tucson, AZ. Any extra money we raise will be going toward our prize fund, so let's raise a lot of money! :-)

Please let me know about any successful fundraisers you might have had! Thanks!

Russ

Here are some comments posted afterwards.

Timm Sheehan: How About a garage sale, or white elephant sales, a bus trip to a function like a baseball game or day trip to casino that is what we have done here in Vegas for fundraising, I'll think of some more and let you know.

Larry: We did a football pool grid.. you have Arizona... you charge $2 a square... get $200... pay out $100 ($25 a quarter 1-2-3 and end of game) Keep $100 for your tournament. 16 weeks -- $1,600. That is one.. besides the regular.. fun bowls.. mystery numbers.. so on. Hope this helps.

Donnie Chance: When we did the garage sale we did it in May when the weather was little cooler ( 100 degrees instead of 110 degrees). You guys will understand what I mean:) We are going to rent a spot at the local Flea market this fall when are back at the 80 degrees weather and do yard sale from their. It might be something for you to look into. You would have a lot more people. The other one we are doing for our IGBO 2009 tournament is a mega raffle. How that works in you make up 200 ( or how many you want too) sale for $10.00 each. You keep half and one person wins the other half.

Bill Gerstmeyer: Well I have served on committees for Detroit (MIC) and Columbus (COMIC)--in the past we have teamed up with local bars and some have set aside a bar night--usually on Friday where the committee members charge a $1 or $2 cover charge--more of a donation--for exchange for advertising in the program. Also we worked the State Fair and at Tiger Stadium for a set fee volunteering at concessions and they function made a generous donation to the organization. Mini tourneys throughout the year can help.

I will continue the comment thread in this Blog. If you want to submit or review a comment to this post, simply click the Comment link below (once you are viewing the blog article).

Mike Tamburrino
Co-Director IGBO 2008 Atlanta
webmaster@igbo.org

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