TheBitterEnd
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damian said:BCA launched a 12 month consultation on improvements to our membership structure in, I think, 2011. At the end of the 12 months I was only aware of one response! Executive are now actively looking at moving forward and genuinely welcome input and ideas. As I've explained to IanP in the past, though, while BCA and BCRA work closely together, BCRA's membership structure has nothing to do with BCA. We do combine to process all memberships in one location to make life easier for people, but BCRA's membership structure is quite rightly an matter for them.Badlad said:The whole BCRA and BCA membership structure should be customer centred. It clearly isn't. Whoever thought 'DIM' was a cool membership category doesn't understand professional sales and marketing techniques. Volunteers do an essential job but they still need to listen and be prepared to take on board new ideas to take the organisation into the future.
A couple of years ago I decided I'd like to get the Journals so I looked at the options but being a bit dim I couldn't figure it out and officially became DIM. I really couldn't penetrate the differences between the BCA and BCRA, who publishes which journal and how on earth CIM+ works.
I'm sure you are right that the BCA and BCRA are separate organisations but they do seem to have some pretty close ties and I suspect that that this leads to confusion.
As Kay says, I don't remember being invited to contribute to a consultation either and I generally read most of this sort of stuff.