How good are you at asking people for stuff, from cash to items for auction?
I already do a fair amount of fund raising on behalf of the club and convention. I'm not only shameless about self promotion, I'm also quite bold at pestering, wheedling, and begging for people to buy memberships, give money, and donate stuff. I bounce around behind the MileHiCon table at various conventions, collect books for DASFA (and crazy me I stored them in my apartment for two months once, 30 boxes of books in addition to the thousands already here, it was intolerable), and generally spread the good word about things. I think I might do all right at it and I help keeping the books for MileHiCon, so people consider me pretty trustworthy. (I'm either getting moved up to Treasurer this year or going to have a year of apprenticeship, nothing definite yet.)
Do you get to a lot of larger conventions, or would you be willing to attend more while you're the TAFFboy?
This may be the hardest one for me. Living in central nowhere I've not gotten to as many large conventions as I would like. My plan next year is to hit Westercon, Minicon, and hopefully Worldcon in addition to the local conventions. How many large conventions should the TAFF delegate be hitting? How have the more fan writer types handled this in the past?
How good are you at dealing with complaining fans? Depending on the controversy topic, being the TAFF delegate can make you the target of to months or years of disagreeable conversation.
I'm director of a SF club, I know nothing about people complaining about everything I do. (That should be read with cheerful sarcasm.) I've dealt with some controversies in the past both online and off. What I have done is to give apologies even when I think I didn't do anything wrong and to avoid provoking people who are angry with me or that I think might be angry with me. Having the emotional memory of a butterfly helps me; I forget insults almost like they never happened. So I'll do all right in not getting dragged under by a fan feud.
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Date: 2003-08-10 06:58 pm (UTC)I already do a fair amount of fund raising on behalf of the club and convention. I'm not only shameless about self promotion, I'm also quite bold at pestering, wheedling, and begging for people to buy memberships, give money, and donate stuff. I bounce around behind the MileHiCon table at various conventions, collect books for DASFA (and crazy me I stored them in my apartment for two months once, 30 boxes of books in addition to the thousands already here, it was intolerable), and generally spread the good word about things. I think I might do all right at it and I help keeping the books for MileHiCon, so people consider me pretty trustworthy. (I'm either getting moved up to Treasurer this year or going to have a year of apprenticeship, nothing definite yet.)
Do you get to a lot of larger conventions, or would you be willing to attend more while you're the TAFFboy?
This may be the hardest one for me. Living in central nowhere I've not gotten to as many large conventions as I would like. My plan next year is to hit Westercon, Minicon, and hopefully Worldcon in addition to the local conventions. How many large conventions should the TAFF delegate be hitting? How have the more fan writer types handled this in the past?
How good are you at dealing with complaining fans? Depending on the controversy topic, being the TAFF delegate can make you the target of to months or years of disagreeable conversation.
I'm director of a SF club, I know nothing about people complaining about everything I do. (That should be read with cheerful sarcasm.) I've dealt with some controversies in the past both online and off. What I have done is to give apologies even when I think I didn't do anything wrong and to avoid provoking people who are angry with me or that I think might be angry with me. Having the emotional memory of a butterfly helps me; I forget insults almost like they never happened. So I'll do all right in not getting dragged under by a fan feud.