[Rmc-list] [Corsabod] CORSA Communique. Our new staff.

[Nick Shumaker]

Hi All,

Below is a summary of the new positions which CORSA just completed hiring
to run the facets of the organization on a day to day basis including
production of the Communique.  The social media and internet coordinator is
a new position and we feel will be critical to the future of CORSA.  This
process was no small task and replacing Mike and Harry who had run the
CORSA business office and publications for many years was no small task.

Best,
Nick.


>From Allan Lacki:

You are probably wondering about the background and qualifications of our
new staff.  Here is some information about them.





Business Services.



Our new business services contractor is PRB eMedia Solutions, LLC, which
consists of Paul and Ramona Bergstrom of Maple Plain, Minnesota.  Paul will
be our new Executive Secretary and Ramona will be his assistant.  Paul has
eight years experience as Club Office Manager and Website/Internet Forum
Manager for the Pontiac-Oakland Club International (POCI).  He also worked
for one year as the Commercial Advertising Manager for the Oldsmobile Club
of America; 3 years as the Commercial Advertising Manager for the National
Impala Association; and several years as editor of the PrixViews, a
bi-monthly publication of POCI's Grand Prix Chapter.  Ramona has been there
along with him, having provided eight years of club office support for POCI.





Publication Services.



Our new publication services contractor is Keefe Media International, which
consists of Don Keefe and Anna Haines of Palm Harbor, Florida.  Don will be
our new Executive Editor and Anna will be his assistant.  Don has two years
experience as *Founding Editor-in-Chief of **Poncho Perfection
Magazine, a *64-page
monthly, commercial magazine devoted to Pontiacs.  He designed the magazine
from scratch and produces printed and digital versions of the magazine.  Don
also has nine years of experience as Editor-in-Chief and Creative Dirctor
of POCI's Smoke Signals magazine, a 100-page monthly club publication.  In
addition, he remains Creative Director of National Impala Association's *Impala
News*, a 36-page quarterly club periodical. These are just a few of the
positions he has held in the world of journalism.  Anna Haines has been
there along with him for the past two years, serving as proof reader and
copy editor.  In addition, she was an English teacher for several years and
holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature.





Social Media



Our new social media contractor is Dr. Steve Spilatro of Marietta, Ohio.   He
will be doing business with us as VairFare, LLC.   He is the webmaster for
Corvanatics and the

Marietta Natural History Society.  He has also developed web-based
pedagogical sites and software for molecular and biological modeling with
online quizes.  In addition to his experience with web-based systems, he
remains Professor of Biology and Environmental Science at Marietta College,
a position he has held since 1988 and where he has been accorded numerous
grants and awards.



Harry Jensen of Management & Publications Services, Inc. will remain on
board for the next two years as our Convention Services contractor.   Harry's
qualifications are well known to all of us.





The Selection Process.



Our process for selecting these people was both formal, rigorous and
subject to attorney review.  Using the existing M&P contract as a starting
point, we developed specific lists of products and services expected of
each contractor.  Then, we developed a standard form of agreement
(contract) with all the terms and conditions for doing business with CORSA.
The product and service lists as well as the form of agreement were
attached to a five-page request for proposals, which was made available
last September through ZipRecruiter, all the major Corvair discussion
boards, as well as the CORSA Communique.   More than 100 people asked for
copies of the bid packages and several bids were received.  Ken Hand, Mike
Hall and I evaluated the top nine bids to make the final choices.   Since
then, all the contracts have been signed.  We're ready to go.



Ken Hand and Norm Witte initiated this process and our thanks go out to
them.  Mike Hall and the rest of the Board were deeply involved in the
preparation of the RFPs, the standard form of agreement and evaluation of
the bids.   All said, countless hours were spent on this effort and we did
our best.

Nick Shumaker


On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 7:07 AM, Allan Lacki via Corsabod <
corsabod at corvair.org> wrote:

> Hi Mike McGowan,
>
> Out on Virtual Vairs, Bob Helt inquired about the background and
> qualifications of our new contractors.  I'm sure there are others out there
> who are wondering about this.  Attached is a response I posted on Virtual
> Vairs.  Perhaps this would make a suitable article for the next Communique.
>
> Allan Lacki
> redbat01 at verizon.net
>
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