[Year 12 IPM] New Mailing List for all vendors with a product for schools

[Keith Richardson]

Brilliant, excellent, great, worthwhile suggestion Kevork - as usual,
you don't simply suggest, you do. A man of action!
Thanks, my friend. You do us all proud.
Keith



On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 01:27:30 +1100, "Kevork Krozian"
<kevork at edulists.com.au> said:
> Dear colleagues,
> 
>      As usual , please excuse multiples of this message.
> 
> I had a thought today (Tuesday) at the VITTA conference as I walked
> through the vendor displays that were set up for our viewing pleasure to
> partake of or ignore as we please or just to hang around long enough to
> win one of the many prizes they offered at the end of the day for lucky
> teachers.
> The thought I had was this:  Wow, these people have put many many hours
> of effort into setting up their stands carting their products, and
> putting on a bright happy face from early morning to late afternoon as
> many hundreds of people meander around and through the displays. What is
> more, most if not all were trying to wolf down their lunch whilst still
> "on duty" at their stand either on a high chair or standing,  in advance
> of the teacher lunch break and inevitable rush that would follow.
> 
>  Roland summed it up very eloquently when recently he wrote :
> " I think it does these commercial groups and partners proud that they
> slog
> through all the e-mails we churn out on these lists, turn up to all those
> conference trade stands, grind away at all those phone calls and keep up
> a
> brave face listening to all our gripes." 
> 
>  Therefore, I wish to provide a vehicle for these partners in our journey
>  to do the best for our students by setting up a "products" mailing list
>  that can be used by any vendor with something to offer schools. As the
>  description of the list states, " Vendor Product Information Mailing
>  List is a vehicle for vendors to announce, inform, advertise and
>  otherwise disseminate information about educational products such as
>  hardware, software, solutions. class materials, training, multimedia
>  tools, electronic equipment and any other material that can assist
>  schools ". 
> 
> For many if not all teachers, it is necessary to keep up with what is
> happening in the market place. For example, I had been looking around for
> a long time to integrate a number of databases that operate at my school
> as separate stand alone products eg. rollmarking, reporting and
> timetabling. I think I found such a product at one of the stands today.
> This will remove duplication and synchronisation of data. Entering
> student data once will make it available to all components of this
> integrated system.
> 
> I would like to offer all vendors this mailing list so that each can make
> a product announcement or post an advertisement on this "products" list
> without any apology or justification. They can praise their product and
> tell us how wonderful it is. Teachers who wish to keep up with vendor
> announcements can join this list accepting that the purpose of this list
> is purely advertising and prospective schools or teachers can follow up
> with vendors any way they like.
> 
> I hope this initiative gives recognition and a rightful place for our
> partners in education who do so much to make our lives so much easier and
> what we deliver so much higher in quality.
> 
> Best Wishes
> 
> Kevork Krozian
> Mailing List Creator and Administrator
> kevork at edulists.com.au
> www.edulists.com.au
> Tel: 0419 356 034
Keith Richardson
Leibler Yavneh College
Elsternwick Ph (03)9528 4911
keithcr at fastmail.fm