Informing club members of various jobs which are unfilled and making sure that decision making processes are held in a transparent manner rather than in secret helps a lot IMO. If people can see what you are doing and know what does and doesn’t need done then they can help criticize you to help you figure out how to improve things and if they’re particularly helpful will start volunteering to help.

Simpy listing all of the jobs which need to be completed and writing a brief article/emailing them to the members to see is always a good idea. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen that done within hockey circles. Usually it doesn’t work, but it at least lets people know that jobs need completed and gives them the option to chip in if they have a particular skill area that needs filled.

There’s too much secrecy amongst organisers and I have no idea why. Admittedly, organising things in public does open you to attack by dickheads, but personally I don’t care too much about that sort of thing. As long as it’s clear what is being done and that others welcome to contribute then the morons  who whinge and complain generally just look like that … whinging morons.

What worked well for worlds was giving every club member one or two posters at practice to put up at their school or work etc.

Yep, posters work well. Posting a PDF for download works okay too. I’m not sure many people bother printing them, but for the sake of posting a PDF online it’s well worth the 2 mins of effort to email it/post it online IMO.

The thing is, you’ve got people like myself who will happily post advertisements on the web, but aren’t willing to go hunting for news. I used to actively seek news to put on dunedinicehockey.hellyer.kiwi, but in the past year I’ve lost interest and now just wait for it to arrive. In fact, unless it’s sent to me in an easily postable format (ie: already formatted or use in a news item) I generally don’t bother anymore (incidentally this is something which needs fixed, we need someone to volunteer to write new items for dunedinicehockey.hellyer.kiwi).

With http://dunedinthunder.co.nz, what you can do is to setup news items about the games in advance of them even happening. So at the start of the season when you know the game schedules, you can setup a series of posts to be posted on the site at scheduled times. You only need to do it once and from then on they’ll be posted whenever they’re scheduled for. You couldn’t include many details in them since you wouldn’t necessarily know what would be happening, but at least there would be some sort of notification.

… come to think of it, perhaps SlapShot.net.nz would be a good place for us to setup an email notification/RSS feed system for reporting game times? Hmmmm … might need to ponder that one. We could feed it all through the forum system too, so that you guys could submit the game schedule yourself.

I would say from experinces I have had in the past, thunder, need to organise a couple of people like this, to co-ordinate things like off ice promotions, radio stations, general publicicty, on ice eventslike the amazing light and sound introduction that didnt happenthis year due to a lack ofco ordination and people willing to help. im sure there are certain people in the club with various skills, like fundraising, advertising ectera that need to be shoulder tapped.

Im sorry to say guys but things dont just happen,they need people to make that happen, and a whole club behind, look at the stampede with the queenstown club behind them, we need to follow suit

I believe the rock has sponsored Stampede so its fair game I would say.

I might be mistaken but I think we advertised with classic rock.