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General Discussion / Re: WOWps 2011, March 9-12, 2011

« on: December 01, 2010, 11:31:05 PM »

What a wonderful and powerful message, Louise!  It has been a pleasure serving as Chair and now in my role as the Event Coordinator for WOWps in her entirety.  It's a pleasure working with you and I'm looking forward to the joys of this work with the Host Cities to come. 

Thank you, Louise, for being a champion for this event.  It is a thankless job.  You get all of the criticism.  You take all of the heat.  You do a huge portion of the work.  You are a glorious Goddess because of this.  As a member of the Executive Council and as the Event Coordinator for WOWps and on behalf of Poetry Slam, Inc.: THANK YOU!

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General Discussion / Re: why are storm poets allowed to participate in IWPS?

« on: November 30, 2010, 12:10:30 PM »

Say that, Inkera!!!  We are in agreement.

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General Discussion / Re: WOWps 2011 Host City Call Out

« on: November 30, 2010, 08:43:43 AM »

Thanks, Louise!

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General Discussion / Re: WHY DO YOU SLAM?

« on: November 30, 2010, 08:42:32 AM »

I slam because I'm competitive.  I help to produce WOWps because while I believe we shouldn't be scored, it's so much fun to watch the angst of it all.  Leaving eveything to public scrutiny can be humbling.

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General Discussion / Re: why are storm poets allowed to participate in IWPS?

« on: November 30, 2010, 08:40:44 AM »

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but who is going to vote to cut the numbers back?

-bill mac

Not me.  I understand the reasons why cutting the numbers back would be good, but we'd inspire a mutiny doing that.

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General Discussion / Re: WOWps 2011 Host City Call Out

« on: November 12, 2010, 01:20:00 PM »

The schedule of events is not set yet.

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General Discussion / Re: WOWps 2011 Host City Call Out

« on: November 03, 2010, 12:05:40 PM »

They should be confirmed by next week.  They are tentatively scheduled for March 9-12, 2011 in Columbus.  We plan to confirm these dates shortly.

Thanks for keeping us on task!

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General Discussion / Re: Have you seen the WOW 2009 DVD?

« on: October 05, 2010, 01:12:52 PM »

I thought she meant a whole youth slam.

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General Discussion / Re: Have you seen the WOW 2009 DVD?

« on: October 05, 2010, 08:12:51 AM »

No.

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General Discussion / Re: Membership Retention

« on: September 03, 2010, 03:21:57 PM »

Bob,

I appreciate your feedback.  I'll be taking these ideas to the EC for further discussion.  I'm passionate about maintaining our membership and am excited about the input we've been receiving.  I'm sure one or more of these ideas will be tested out.

Thanks.

~phoenix

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General Discussion / Re: Membership Retention

« on: September 01, 2010, 12:08:37 AM »

PSi doesn't do a whole lot for me, and my membership in PSi doesn't do a whole lot for me, either, but PSi does a lot for the art form/ art movement I support, and you all seem like nice people, and $35/yr is a modest donation to the cause of good writing and good fellowship.

I joined in 2007 (2006?) back when I wanted to be a slam poet. Membership gave me a cute card (which I soon lost) and permitted me to enter upper-level slam tournaments at the Cantab. It was a means to a very specific, practical end.

By 2008, I'd realized that I had more to offer as a booster and backstage guy than as a competitor, but I paid the modest renewal fee because I didn't want PSI to delete my account and I did want a discount on a hotel room @ NPS Madison.

In 2009, I renewed at the associate level so I could sell my book in the PSi store. I forget whether it got me a discount admission to IWPS Berkeley.

Now it's 2010, and I'm about to renew my membership because I'm pretty sure i'm overdue for renewal, but I haven't gotten any reminders and, obviously, I can post comments and see "members only" parts of the forum. The book isn't selling (here), and the ways I participate in the slam community don't require my continued membership to PSI, but as I said at the start, it's just $35/year, PSI is Good People, and it's for a good cause.

I suspect the rank-and-file members of a given slam/open mic community have no idea what PSi is. It's like asking college students about the board of trustees, or the you-gotta-be-kidding letters that invite me to annual shareholder meetings of my meager stock portfolio. The work PSI does is always important but rarely visible. The Boston Poetry Slam has a dozen staff members and only three of us (Simone, Dawn, and I) post on these forums with any frequency. Our community is intensely loyal to the Cantab, and has a good spirit about the NorthBEAST slam family, but PSi just isn't on our community radar.

I suspect PSI will be a much bigger part of the Boston consciousness as NPS 2011 nears.

Absolutely loved this post.

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General Discussion / Re: Membership Retention

« on: August 30, 2010, 10:17:36 PM »

I didn't realize that, Sam!  Should I post the membership benefits in this thread?

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General Discussion / Membership Retention

« on: August 30, 2010, 01:07:30 PM »

Peace, Fam:

I've been thinking a lot about membership retention.  It is one of the reasons I am proud to be the newest member of the Executive Council.

I believe that Poetry Slam, Incorporated is a vital organization to the creation and promotion of art.  In that, I want to see the community strengthened not only in numbers and members, but also by deepening our relationships with the current family we have now.  National events definitely feel like a family reunion, but what if we kept that momentum going year round with programming specifically designed to keep us all excited about PSi? 

This is where I could use your feedback.  When you consider the other organizations and clubs that you collaborate with, what kinds of membership incentives keep you excited about staying on board? 

To take a review of our current membership benefits go here:  http://www.poetryslam.com/forum/index.php?topic=2550.0

Looking forward to hearing from everyone!  I'll also cross post this topic in the SlamMasters Forum.

Your Girl,
~phoenix

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General Discussion / Re: Dates for IWPS 2010

« on: August 26, 2010, 06:38:20 PM »

We'll be making an announcement soon and appreciate your continued patience.

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General Discussion / Re: UPDATE: iWPS 2010 Host Change

« on: August 16, 2010, 08:09:58 AM »

Cassandra, it's gonna be awesome working with you again! I'll be the EvC for this event. With Inkera as Chair, we go wrong!

That should say, "we can't go wrong".

Cell phones.  Jeez!  :-)