[Hartwood] Meeting January 27th

[Danielle Bevan]

There's something I want to clarify here regarding the recording. There was nothing 'secret' intended by it; the recording was taken by my request, and not for nefarious purposes. I had wanted very badly to be at the meeting, but was ill and knew two people with immune-compromised spouses would be attending. Rather than get the he-said she-said version of what was being said, I asked for someone to record it so I could hear -exactly- what was said. This is a good thing, as there are at least two things I've been told about the meeting that were mis-remembered. It's obvious that there is some kind of suspicion that the intent behind it was malicious, but I honestly feel most people handled themselves with dignity -- and you, Susan, especially.

I sincerely apologize if there was any offence taken by it. It was a public, open door meeting, and so I didn't think it would be a problem.

As for Facebook, there are two separate situations -- people ranting on their private walls is one thing, but on the public, official site is quite another. Society and Kingdom has finally released a social media policy allowing us to use Facebook officially, but only with very specific guidelines. These guidelines require a moderator, and forbid discourteous behavior or personal attacks. For anyone interested, who hasn't read it yet (what do you mean, you aren't all on the webminister's email list/aren't psychic?), I've included the message below.

Again, I apologize if my request for the recording has caused hurt feelings. I just really wanted to be there to hear all you had to say.

~ Danielle/Cunegonda

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Today, January 26, 2013, the Board of Directors met in the Kingdom of
Atenveldt, a vote was taken on a policy that several of us in this Kingdom
sent input to. It was a success! :)

Re-posting from the Society FB page:
https://www.facebook.com/currentmiddleages

Greetings all from Lord Tobias Morgan, Deputy Society Seneschal for Social
Media. As you may have heard, the new Social Media Policy was approved at
today's Board meeting. We will be publishing it online this week and I will
personally be in contact with the Kingdom Seneschals and Webministers to
directly distribute a copy, along with recommendations for implementation
and where to go from here for them and their branch officers. I will post a
subsequent notice when it is available for public download (please hold off
on personal requests for the SMP, and if you're a branch officer, give your
kingdom time to get it sent down to you).

Later this week, once the policy has been out for a few days and people have
time to digest it, I will host a Q&A session for people to ask questions and
get advice on how to use social media for their branches and events.

More than anything else, the message I want to put out about SCA Social
Media is this: we WANT you to use it, but we want you to use it responsibly.
The policy gives you the tools to do that. If you have any questions
(besides hey social dude, gimme my copy now!), feel free to contact me at
socialmedia at sca.org, message me here on Facebook, or tweet me @SCAsocial.

Thank you to everyone who provided work, commentary, and editing on the
policy over the past year.

Lord Tobias Morgan
Deputy Society Seneschal for Social Media
Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA)

Baronessa Chiara Francesca Arianna d'Onofrio
An Tir Kingdom Webminister
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