Craig Daniel Barker writes: "Not every team reads Yahoo! and many still subscribe to QB. QB's flow has been pretty much bottled up as people shift their attentions over to the Y! board, but remember, we do our best work when we reach every one. Take the moment, copy the message into the clipboard and send it to both. What harm can it do? Similarly, never underestimate the power of direct personal emailing if you're running a tournament, as you may reach a team that is not attuned to the larger realm of QB. We're a harrowing group of people, let's do our best to be less so." Also, if your team has a website, it helps a lot if the website has correct and up-to-date information about your tournament. For big tournaments, especially, there are usually lots of separate communiques sent out with details of scheduling, directions, changes, etc. These are obviously worth posting to the individual e-mail contacts, and often to this board as well, but it's a lot easier on the participants if the same info is also posted on the host's website, for the simple reason that everything one needs to know can be put in one location. A team's website is the most obvious place to look for information about activities the team is hosting, and thanks to Craig's stewardship of the Maize Pages Directory at <a href=http://www.umich.edu/~uac/mac/maize/directory.html target=new>http://www.umich.edu/~uac/mac/maize/directory.html</a> , we know where to find it if you have one. If your website contradicts your e-mails then it's probably not conveying the image you'd like to communicate of being a smoothly run organization.
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