Tyler M - PR/Secretary

[Tyler.M]

What are your major commitments outside of your class load? Do you work, participate in any other clubs, etc?

Great question, I do have another job outside of class, which is a job as an Editorial Assistant for JMU's Madison Magazine. However, this is a really low key job. It never takes up weekends, and only takes place during the day 'til around 5 when I have to be in the office, or I take "off" days and do much of the work from home.

I"m not involved in other organizations either. Sure, I'll do some outdoor adventure things through UREC every once in a while, but nothing major.

. Do you have the free time to do that?
.How are your web skills to work on that sort of stuff? It's basic CMS editing (WordPress) and some simple HTML sometimes.

The way my semester is shaping up, I'll have PLENTY of time on my hands to do proficient PR. In regards with CMS editing, I do a lot of it through JMU's Be the Change blog and I am fairly familiar with it. I've done a fair bit of HTML stuff, but it's been awhile. From what I've seen, the stuff on this website should be fairly easy to manage, and I'll be sure to pick your brain a lot just to make sure I"m doing everything right. But I have done it before, so that also shouldn't be too insurmountable a task.

I like this but how will you get students to attend?

Easy, provide a set time and place, and make this recurring. Humans are creatures of habit; if the club provides students with a place to go during lunch time, especially when they haven't really discovered a bunch of friends to eat with at the beginning of the semester, you'll attract them. I'll be there, I know some of the officers will too. People crave a social aspect, and providing a group to eat with will always be favored over eating alone.

How can you involve those that aren't? How will you work on a proper JMU ratio so people come out?

The focus isn't getting as many people "out" as possible, it's just about hanging out with club members. People don't want to drink or party or whatever? That's fine, it's not a mandatory thing. My idea is that we'll offer a bunch of different things to do, so if a person can't go to a party or doesn't want to go, it's not like that'll be the only time they'll have a chance to hang out with club members that semester.

We have our very own grill now, I LIKE.

awwwww yeahhhhh :thumbup:

I feel like I heard the "I'm broke and do nothing" excuse a ton this year. How will you make sure EVERYONE knows when someone gets parts and make sure those who have parts alert the rest of the club?

Easy again, make them more defined about time and place. Schedule them early on so people can plan projects around wrench days, especially on bigger stuff. People would know well in advance when a wrench day was happening, and could save up for a big project to do on that day. It all comes back to scheduling. Besides that though, there would be more of an emphasis on making it an educational experience too; you don't really learn very much about working on a car until you do it. Even those who don't have any money to do a project can still help those that are working on one.

I would love to see the club provide more content online of what we do and have from the track FB updates. How do you plan to keep up the hype online? I'd like multiple examples.

We keep up the hype by having something to be hyped about. If we provide events and stuff to do, and do it on the regular, then let people know via FB, we'll have the hype we require. I'm not really into asinine quotes of the day or daily pictures of some chopped and dropped Corolla. It'll be about substance. If we start doing a lot more events, put these up on FB, then the hype will generate itself. I'm not really looking to make anything go viral, just allow people to see what we're up to much more visibly then what the forums provide to the general public.

Do you have any photography, videography, or graphic skills? If not do you have relationships with people who do and are enthusiastic about cars (this will make life easy).

. I do have photography and videography skills, but no graphic ones. Fortunately, I do have several people that I can rely on here at JMU to get this taken care of. Some of the other officers also know people that could help us out with this too.