NACAP 10 Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 The BSA Advancement Team is now on Twitter @AdvBSA Link to post Share on other sites
Basementdweller 608 Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 Ok I will bite.... Why????????? Link to post Share on other sites
NACAP 10 Posted March 30, 2012 Author Share Posted March 30, 2012 To provide scouters another avenue to get official answers to Advancement questions vice batting them around and giving out wrong information like Forums do. Also scouters should subscribe to Advancment News to get the monthly newsletter. National has historically been beaten up for not providing information to scouts and scouters so this is their way of trying to get current information out. Other avenues include advancement.team@scouting.org and merit.badge@scouting.org(This message has been edited by NACAP) Link to post Share on other sites
Papadaddy 121 Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 I think we've been dissed. Again. #insulted Link to post Share on other sites
CalicoPenn 729 Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 With no disrespect meant to the nice person who has informed us of this new tool, my first thought was: "So the BSA has finally gotten on board the "Twitterverse" - must mean that Twitter's on its way out and something new is about to eat Twitter's lunch". It does sound like a nice new tool for people to use, though.(This message has been edited by calicopenn) Link to post Share on other sites
moosetracker 132 Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 How to I subscribe to the Advancement News.. Not a twitter person.. Link to post Share on other sites
NACAP 10 Posted March 31, 2012 Author Share Posted March 31, 2012 Managing Subscriptions to Advancement News Advancement News is designed for council and district advancement chairs, advancement staff advisors, and Eagle processors. However, any Scouting volunteer or professional may subscribe. Subscribing. Send a message to advancement.team@scouting.org, with SUBSCRIBE in the subject line. Indicate your name, email address, and council in the message text. Link to post Share on other sites
Lisabob 13 Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 You know, it would be nice if the BSA had a functional website and an online training system that didn't freeze, fail to record completed online trainings, etc. I'm not opposed to twitter but it doesn't seem like the most pressing online need that the BSA has. Link to post Share on other sites
OldGreyEagle 5 Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 A hearty welcome to you NACAP, as you can tell the members here wll tell you exactly as they feel and if you can address some of their concerns, you will be doing well Welcome and Good Luck Link to post Share on other sites
NACAP 10 Posted March 31, 2012 Author Share Posted March 31, 2012 Thanks OGE. Opinions are fine but blantant disregard for the rules and the Gatekeeper mentality gets me peeved. We should be on the other side of the gate pulling scouts through instead of standing in front of the gate keeping them out. This is one of the reasons the GTA and new Eagle Workbook were written and why the Advancement News and Twitter were started. Lisabob. I don't disagree that National has problems with the IT systems. Twitter is a method the advancement folks are trying to get the information out quicker. Scoutnet should have been retired long ago. I personally (maybe I'm just lucky) have not had issues with the Training or Internet Advancement software. Each Web site has its challenges. It took me months to get registered on this one. :-) Link to post Share on other sites
shortridge 184 Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 BSA's web problem isn't an IT issue by any stretch of the imagination. OK, perhaps they could use a better search function. But the main problem is one of content and organization. The site is simply atrocious, apparently having been managed by someone who doesn't understand how the public navigates the Internet. BSA needs a good editor, a communications professional rather than a Scouting professional, to take charge and kick people in the butt rather than leaving content decisions up to the individual divisions and sections. If the Advancement folks need to get information out "quicker," as NACAP suggests, it already has multiple platforms and systems through which to do so. (Roundtables, anyone? Email newsletters? Council newsletters? Scouting.org? Magazines? Blogs?) It's a sign of Irving's incompetence that it apparently feels that it has to turn to a third-party system to contact its members. NACAP, I know Scouter.com has had some tech-y problems lately, but consider that it's paid for by a guy out of his own pocket, doesn't charge a fee and is moderated by volunteers. BSA is a fee-based mega-million-dollar national organization with highly paid staff and tons of resources. You really can't compare the two, even with a smiley-face. That's more than a bit unfair.(This message has been edited by shortridge) Link to post Share on other sites
MoosetheItalianBlacksmith 13 Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 NACAP.....It might help alot of people here on the forums have a better idea where your coming from on this standpoint and where your info is coming from if We knew what your position in scouting was. Im dont have a twitter account right now but i am curious about some of the advancement information your gonna be putting out.(This message has been edited by MoosetheItalianBlacksmith) Link to post Share on other sites
shortridge 184 Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 By the way, NACAP - Those email addresses you posted? I searched on Scouting.org to see how National was advertising them. I found advancement.team only listed in the GTA and in the Advancement News publication. The merit.badge account I couldn't find posted anywhere. Neither is posted on the @AdvBSA Twitter page. So how are people supposed to use them to communicate when they don't know about them? (Oh, and those searches I did on Scouting.org? I had to use Google to do a site search, because the Scouting.org search function gave me a runtime error.) Link to post Share on other sites
MoosetheItalianBlacksmith 13 Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 I decided to update with the times.....i got the twitter account...just so i could get the info. Figured i didnt have to use it much more than that. but the information should be good. and being on the District Eagle board i should stay up to date on my info. Link to post Share on other sites
NACAP 10 Posted April 1, 2012 Author Share Posted April 1, 2012 Shortridge...as SGT Hulka would say in the movie Stripes...."Lighten up Francis" you obviously have a huge issue with the BSA so as I have told folks in the past, it something makes you so upset that you go off on not being able to find something on a web site, maybe you need to take a break from that activity. You don't need to attack me. The merit.badge@scouting.org email address is in the GTA Chapter 7 Meritbadge section. The Twitter account has been up less than a week...give it some time (or don't). I was asked by the Professional Staff to post it on this site and meritbadge.org. For MIB...I am a volunteer like most of the folks on this site. I'm a SM, on our DAC and have done 100s of EPs and EBORs, served on the panel that helped write the GTA and new Eagle WB and am an Advisor to the National Advancement Committee. My info comes from the NAC and National Advancement. Link to post Share on other sites
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