[Psml] Barriers to Registration

[John & Judy Gill]

Markus and list,

If National wants Squadrons to use on-line registrations for courses  
and seminars, why not have national take the registrations and  
collect the credit card payments.  National could then send the  
course or seminar materials to the Squadrons in time for the courses  
and/or seminars along with a check to cover Squadron costs???  Each  
Squadron could set their own administrative costs (classroom rental,  
refreshments, teaching supplies, etc).  Not much different from the  
ABC Internet - Home Study Course.

John

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On Jul 4, 2009, at 4:16 PM, Markus Ritter wrote:

> Dear Barclay
>
> Thanks for supporting the elimination of barriers to course and/or  
> seminar registration.
>
>
>
> Sounds like there is a lot of sentiment towards eliminating  
> barriers,  I wonder what percentage of the members would agree to  
> forcing all Seminars to allow on-line registration (not require it,  
> just allow it).  Maybe the Optional on-line registration form needs  
> one of those boxes with the funny letters and or numbers that can  
> not be easily read by a computer, but I doubt it.
>
>
>
> Markus
>
>
>
> Viva la click here for optional on-line registration form.
>
>
>
> From: psml-bounces at usps.org [mailto:psml-bounces at usps.org] On  
> Behalf Of Barclay M. Thomas
> Sent: Saturday, July 04, 2009 8:43 AM
> To: markusritter at hotmail.com
> Cc: United States Power Squadrons Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Psml] Barriers to Registration
>
>
>
> Markus, et. al.,
>
> I agree that on-line class registration should be made available  
> BUT, if the squadron SEO does not 'do' computer (for whatever  
> reason) and the Executive Committee (who would/should have the  
> responsibility in such case) cannot find a person with the  
> capabilities and willingness to field the emails and do the  
> integration with DB2K, then the on-line registration should be  
> blocked.
>
> The squadron may lose some prospective students by not having the  
> on-line signup, but having the link active and no one to handle the  
> queries would be even more damaging. Nothing worse than having a  
> student show up for a class only to be told "sorry never got your  
> application, no books/space for you".
>
>
>
> With all, or most anyway, Boating class and seminar reports going  
> back to Nat'l via computer now, someone has to be doing the on line  
> stuff anyway so maybe a little persuasion/cajoling/sweet-talking  
> might get them to handle the incoming request task as well. I can  
> understand though that some members may be unwilling to put their  
> email address out there for all to see. Something else for the IT  
> folks to work on, but setting up a method for blind links would be  
> quite a task for this site I'd think.
>
> -- 
>
> P/C Barclay M. Thomas, AP
>
> Saybrook Squadron, District 1
>
> United States Power Squadrons®
>
> barcthom at sbcglobal.net
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