Fret not, Hackwire,
There;s plenty of potential to change things right here and as it is.
This forum is VERY active, just navigate backwards and check the stats.
There were 150,000 hits on this specific subforum alone.
It is 2nd only to the stock market subforum.
If Seeseng is agreeable we can talk with Admin for top level listing and other potentials.
An association is as good as the members.
Dun worry abt the brick and mortar type associations, some will die a natural death from neglect.
Folks online here are the cream of the active members already. Some may be members of these brick and mortar assoc too.
Like soneone already mentioned, nothing to stop someone from becoming members of multiple assoc.
See for yrself how in times of trouble folks gravitate towards this forum for info?
Use/recycle any registered (in the interest of time) dormant assoc (was offered earlier on here).
Here I am not so sure (mayb the sifus can offer advice).. change the AA to accept online polls or whatever to make this forum the communication channel of this association. Meeting can be held online and an occasional face to face sitdown ones.
1)Polls can be rigged up right here (not very sure).
2)Make registration compulsory for a small fee (aka memebrship fee) and contribute back to LowYat for the support or whatever ...can discuss
3)If successful we can also cater to the non-online fellas too, use twitter, surely even the oldest guy has a hp now.
4)No need to attract people with nice informative articles...we have a ready audience already...safely thousands (out of the 150,000 hits)
start a micro wiki for swiftlet farming from past posting. (I know it takes 2 weeks full time to get thru V1).
5)If done properly it merely an online assocition/community and since it's formed properly, it has legitimacy of representation,
So we impose on the govt to nego with us or at least inlude us in their discussion.
6)We offer both personal and assoc membership. so we naturally becomes the Fed or umbrella by sheer nos. Not just by name.
7)Make the registration a no brainer in terms of cost..maybe rm5, so other assoc will join an associates.
Details can be worked out, 1 obvious problem is when so cheap, politicians can create false assoc by putting down Rm1,000,000 can create a 200,000 member assco if rm5. So more to think -la,
Seeseng what u think, or I am just talking ayam jantan.
Comments pls,
My 2 bit to generate discussions.
I think I do seriously agree with you that this forum is one of the best resources so far for all bird nest enthusiast. If V1 and V2 combined , we can extract quite a number or criterias relevant for the industry and also a tool book for beginners to expert already.
And the numbers of blog and company url address continue to grow in this forum .
A book could be easily published in PDF already . An author can be hired to extract all relevant issues and use it as a case study of this industry.
the research materials here is now going to be regurgitated and later turn into saliva for making good books and than profits for this new association with low yat loyalty fees included...
anyway, i don't knof of any people to contact about the information on 1GP and the Cabinet meetings to be held somewhere in this month.