Executive Board Roles and Responsibilities

[Phoenix]

One of our goals as the planning committee is to determine the roles and responsibilities of the Executive Board.

we need to

-ensure that all constituencies within the industry receive adequate representation in policy decisionmaking
-ensure that anyone who wants to and who works for a business that is a member in good standing has the opportunity to serve on the board if elected
-develop fair term limits to keep from having too many political issues (staggering the ending of the terms to keep the entire board from turning over every cycle)

Most boards have the following offices with voting rights:

Chair/President
Vice Chair/Vice President
Secretary
Treasurer

Vice-Presidents representing constituencies
Vice-Presidents at Large

Non-voting offices

Committee chairs with VP status
Past President (usually fills an advisory role and helps new board members settle in)

Because this is such a wide ranging industry there are a number of different consituencies that could require representation:

If organized By Tiers:

Tier 1 ISP/Webhost with Internet backbone
Tier 2 NOC connected to ISP
Tier 3 Self-administered Co-located server hosted at NOC
Tier 4 Dedicated server administered by NOC
Tier 5 Wholesale reseller
Tier 6 Retail Reseller

There would probably be more than one of the Tier 6 VP's perhaps by continent or something as that is the largest constituency in the industry.

Your thoughts?

[James]

Maybe its because of the nature of my business, but which roles would be responsible for the promotion and PR requirements of the organisation. We shouldn't assume that if we "build it they will join" ;)

We need some firm promotional timescales set in place. I know we have preliminarily discussed the launch taking place at I in October, but that will require a lot of advanced planning.

[thecomputerguy]

Whatever is needed to be done, I would be glad to help, I can help do anything, I would be glad to help design, or help write stuff up,I also will be having the next month and a half off, then bak to school.

Would their be an age requirement for the office holders? :);)

[poorapagal]

yeah true James..timescale is the first thing to be sorted out, and as far as the roles are concerned i assume that will fall in place once we start getting somewhere.

[Phoenix]

Originally posted by thecomputerguy
Whatever is needed to be done, I would be glad to help, I can help do anything, I would be glad to help design, or help write stuff up,I also will be having the next month and a half off, then bak to school.

Would their be an age requirement for the office holders? :);)

Membership in good standing is normally the only requirement to hold an office in any organization. If there is to be an age requirement for full membership, then there would consequently be an age requirement for being elected to an office.


Maybe its because of the nature of my business, but which roles would be responsible for the promotion and PR requirements of the organisation. We shouldn't assume that if we "build it they will join"

Thats for certain. I've got a bunch more stuff that I'm gathering together on ideas for roles and responsibilities and the composition of the executive board and the committees-the committees are where most of the actual work gets done.

A partial list of committees thus far:

* Web site--responsible for the actual design and development of the organization's web site-they would also set the requirements, accept the bids and hold the lottery to determine where it will be hosted

* PR-responsible for media relations, promotions, issuing press releases

* Professional Standards-responsible for developing and maintaining a set of standards for professionalism in the industry

* Ethical Standards-responsible for developing and maintaining the web hosts code of ethics

* Technical Standards-responsible for developing and maintaining technical standards for the various tiers of web hosts.

* Peer Review Committee-responsible for invistigating complaints against members made by fellow members or customers for violating the rules and for dealing with those situations.

* Membership-responsible for outreach to increase membership.

thoughts, suggestions, etc?

[poorapagal]

Hmm yeah as far as the design is concerned i would love to work on that, in the past i have worked on sites like:-

1. http://www.dotmusic.com

2. Made promotional website for motorola's V.2288 phone, and no it's not because i made it that the phone didn't do well.. :)

3. Have my own personal webdesign site, with some big sites on the portfolio.. where i worked on most of them from scratch to the finish thing.. http://www.artisticartist.com

4. Teach Adobe and Dreamweaver in private classes in the local internet cafe, but am working as senior designer at MSB international to revamp their site.

...so what ya say.

[Phoenix]

Do you wish to volunteer to serve on the committee, or to chair it?

Either is great, what we need most urgently is a chair for that committee and they can coordinate the committee under direction of first the planning committee and then the executive board, as well as work with the chairs of the other committees who will be providing the content, ensuring that the content gets up on the site.

if you want to chair, start a new thread to call for volunteers for the committee itself.

[Orpheus]

just a thought, in regards to "build it and they will join", shouldn't we recruit rather than accept? If you know exactly the kind of people you are after, and through many experiences with them through forums, customer evals, etc... picking the right people may be something to look into.

[Orpheus]

While in college, I had 3 years as the head of Recruitment for a Greek Letter Organization of which I was able to Triple membership before accepting the position of Vice President. I would be interested in the opportunity for any positions.
I do not operate the NOC, but I do own my servers...not sure which tier that would put me in...

[Phoenix]

That's what grass-roots organizing is all about, Orpheus. You go out there and find people who you see believe in what you believe in. That's how I found you. By looking for people who are also fed up what's going on in our industry.

I'm doing a bunch of research in the background, while recruiting more like-minded folks, once we get a good amount of lively people on the forum, I'm going to post a list of Volunteer Opportunities, and those are basically going to be the offices and committees. I'm also putting together an outline for the bylaws so those can get put together as quickly as possible-they can be changed afterwards if needed, but we need to start with something.

Also important is a way of structuring the organization so that it is truly grass roots and not a bunch of individual members governed by a single executive board. Much of the organization's strength and energy must remain local. I'm still fleshing out some ideas, so I can present some things that are all thought through.

[thecomputerguy]

well there is one person i feel should be added to the list

Sipernet.com Sipernet on WHT and Webmafiaforums, he is just a great person, and is a very honest person....

I have a couple of names of host that over sell their bandwith for which we may want to think about not allowing to join or does the forum feel otherwise

[Tommy]

Originally posted by thecomputerguy
I have a couple of names of host that over sell their bandwith for which we may want to think about not allowing to join or does the forum feel otherwise

Integrity, honesty and good business practice is what we're aiming for in this committee so anyone who is knowingly dishonest should not be allowed to participate in our discussion until they clean up their act.

Tommy

[Phoenix]

Exactly, Father Tommy,

Because access to the planning committee's forum is by invitation only, we can keep limit it to people we know who are committed to ethics and honesty within the industry.

I've found that there are a number of people who are very opposed to the idea of having their peers judge them, which makes me wonder if they are living in glass houses. They certainly throw a lot of stones whenever there is a discussion of dishonesty, lies or unethical behavior.

Either they have no experience with trade associations and how they work, or they know that their very existence is threatened by honesty and openness. They may just fear change as many people do, or they understand that unless they change their ways, no one believe their lies any more.

Once we open the kimono, we can vanquish them with industry, standards, codes of ethics, and verbose rhetoric, while they do battle with flames, trolls and whatever other weapons come to hand.

If any of you know of other people you feel should be invited to participate on the committee, time is running out, so drop me an email at phoenix@xensei.com and I'll issue the invitation.

[Orpheus]

In order to offer the best service possible....does anyone feel like going through our site and maybe giving helpful suggestions?
Do i make the policies clear enough/have enough access to support...etc...etc...
Any response is appreciated.

http://www.lightning-network.com

Regards

[thecomputerguy]

Just so I think everyone knows where I stand, and I think I speak for most here, maybe i do.

Phoenix is head of the organization, no vote needed, he is the Supreme being the stuff,

[Phoenix]

Originally posted by thecomputerguy
Phoenix is head of the organization, no vote needed, he is the Supreme being the stuff,

I appreciate your vote of confidence, but I believe we should be a democracy, rather than a theocracy. I am only the de facto chair of the Planning Committee because I opened my big yap and proposed this extravaganza.

I'm finishing the list of offices and committee chairs (volunteer opportunities) and then we'll start volunteering and voting on any disputed seats. Once the executive committee and the rest of the chairs have been seated, we can start getting down to business.