Friday, September 14, 2007
Wanted: Readers’ Panel members
So, here’s an idea. We’re really enjoying the emails we receive from readers, and the requests for comments on particular topics. So, how’s about we take that on to the next logical level?
BJ and I have been chatting, and have come up with the idea of a Readers’ Panel for the blog. Here’s how it would work. We’re after a small number of you (five, six?) to put your names forward as panel members. Every couple of months, we’ll fire through a proposal-related topic to you by email (either one we’ve thought about, or one that other readers have suggested). We’ll canvass your comments, collate your replies, and publish them on the blog.
In return, for panel members? We can’t promise fame and fortune, but we can offer you the chance to participate in interesting debates and to air your views. And you can be confident that if you ever see BJ and I at the bar at a Conference, BJ will buy you a drink :-)
Cool, you can call it “The Proposal View.” I would like to apply for the panel position of “old opinionated broad.”
Sounds like a great idea. Put me down!
:-) thanks to both of you for your kind offers - consider yourselves Official Members of the Knights of the Order of King Proposal. Or something like that.
We’re chatting to some other folks by email. Give us a few days (especially, ’til I get back from Singapore and sort out my life!) and we’ll get in touch to move this forward.
More volunteers still eagerly sought…!
Would love to take part in this. Umm, we don’t always have to agree, right? :).
Jon & BJ never agree, I don’t know why we would need to!
Hi Jon and BJ, I’d be happy to participate on the panel as well. Thank you.
I’d love to be considered for panelist participation, particularly as pertains to proposals. As you can see, I’m really good at alliteration, but if that’s not reason enough to select me, I also have almost seven years of proposal writing and database management experience.
Of course, if this were The Proposal View (as suggested by Barbara), I’d have to fill the role of Camera Man 3, as I don’t have the clothing budget to appear on network television. Still, though, I think I’d make a bang-up panelist/Camera Man 3.
Panelist participation possibilities particularly please proposal professionals. Lisa, does that do as an alliteration?!
Robin, Lesa, Lisa - consider yourselves duly en-panelled (?!). We’ve now got a full complement of volunteers, so thanks everyone. We’ll be in touch with the panel members in the next few days. Thanks, everyone.
(Robin - if we all agreed, it’d be much less fun. Barbara: I’ve been slowly correcting the errors in BJ’s thinking over the past ten years, and promise to iron out the remaining ones in due course. Another ten years?)
Jon - Please don’t fix BJ, I adore him flawed. He is far more entertaining that way.