Leave it as it is
Dinesh.......
On 3 Jul 2012, at 21:30, Saul Galloway <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I just want to try to open a discussion with the list about where
> GP-UK as an entity is going.
>
> Statement of interest : I'm still here since qualification as a dr in
> 1987, so clearly there's something valued in it for me.
>
> There's a handful of people on the list I've met face to face once or
> twice, that was early on, putting faces to some key names improved the
> list experience for me. There's (at least) a couple of early
> participants I miss, in exactly the same way I miss some face to face
> relationships. There's a lot of old timers I "feel" I know on some
> level.
>
> Back in the day the internet was new, we were on dial up, and email,
> listserv, and irc was cutting edge, but times move on and my 21 year
> old son and 23 year old registrar have never heard of mail lists.
>
> There's also an issue of visibility/marketing. I believe as a list
> both membership numbers and postings we are on a shrinking trend, I'm
> not aware of any plan to increase participation/visibility which
> implies a decreasing spiral until we disappear up our own orifice and
> Tref is the last man standing. If we think this thing has value we
> should consider promoting it.
>
> I think we need to consider de-camping to something that is currently
> more mainstream like Facebook, or Google groups. If we think the GP-UK
> "experience" can offer something positive to others we need to get off
> our arse and and make it so.
>
> For me GP-UK is triangulation, sanity checks, peer support, canny
> tactics, battle hardened colleagues, tapping into experience,
> mentoring, MDTs, interdisciplinary relationships, sounding boards,
> networking, cynicism, and that strange oddity e "friendship".
>
> Do we / should we care? and if so, then what to do?
>
> Saul
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