From hamiltjc at visi.com Mon Mar 3 21:44:12 2008 From: hamiltjc at visi.com (hamiltjc) Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 20:44:12 -0600 Subject: [D-plan-net] National Planning Committee Survey - Update and Spring Conference Request! Message-ID: 3 March 2008 To: District Commanders Cc: District Planning Network Members From: R/C William M Bellinger, SN - Chair, National Planning Committee District Commanders, Summary It is our hope that you will continue to help our effort to secure more responses to the National Planning Committee online survey. We are approaching a 5% return rate (of the entire USPS membership) with over 1600 members represented. Though this is a great response, we would like to hear from more members and from a greater number of members in each district. In at least three districts, fewer than seven responses have been recorded; this level of response from any one district creates gray areas with regard to analysis that require we moderate our conclusions with the knowledge that an adequate representation of member desires will not have been heard. Our members are our customers; their input is very important to all of us. This input is used to find ways to keep existing members and to attract new members. Input from past surveys has led to the current emphasis of "hands-on" and "on-water training" as well as the wide variety of seminar topics. The information from the online survey has already produced a variety of ideas we can explore, but we would like to see more! This is our final request asking for your help! Action We hope you can do two things in support of our effort: 1. Please make arrangements to set up a laptop computer with an Internet connection at your spring conference and encourage all attendees who have done so previously to take the survey.perhaps at the "registration table." As you most likely know, one click on the below link, which can be set up in a browser for easy repeated activation, and the survey automatically starts. It will take your members no longer than a few minutes to complete. Consider assigning this "Spring Conference" project to your District Planning Committee. The direct link is as follows: USPS R Planning Committee Survey Actual URL: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=tozUmx10Vy6ebPmUI15Jbw_3d_3d 2. Please, if you haven't done so already, or if your commanders have not responded accordingly, send the attached invitation to participate in the survey to each squadron commander as soon as possible urging them to in turn distribute it by email to their members. This is easy! The attached document contains the invitation to participate in the survey with the online "link" on which members can "click" embedded in the invitation. Just "Forward" the invitation to your squadron commanders and in your comments, specifically ask them to "Forward" it to as many squadron members as possible. ***Just a reminder, the goal is to get as many members as possible to take the survey! This survey will end when the Spring Conference season is over. With your help we hope to see a large increase in the number of responses from your district. The National Planning Committee thanks you in advance for your help in this and all matters. And, as always, please send any comments or suggestions to us by sending your message to d-plan-net at usps.org. Regards, R/C William M Bellinger, SN, PlanCom Chair Members of the National Planning Committee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.usps.org/pipermail/d-plan-net/attachments/20080303/ee16a6a4/attachment-0001.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: USPS National PlanCom Survey 102807.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 47584 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.usps.org/pipermail/d-plan-net/attachments/20080303/ee16a6a4/attachment-0001.pdf