I agree to what Luminita has written here, well done. While I am not the yougest (got 35 the other week), I have a pretty good idea how generation Z works, since I work with a lot of them. If you need any input on this, you know how to find me. Cheers, Vlad On Wed 20. Apr 2022 at 17:09 Luminita vollmer via pbs < pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > Dear Uli and Dear all > > To attract (a new generation of) plant lovers ( of all kinds and ages) is > not sufficient to have a forum, you also have to include as necessary the > acceptable (digital) behaviors that cannot imitate outdated behaviors from > real life, i.e. exclusion, differentiation, dictatorship, put downs, > preferential treatment, etc. etc. This requires a certain social maturity > that is able to transcend past habits, and they extend beyond a Listserv or > fora. Have the rules spelled out, and also practice behaviors beforehand, > new members will come running! ;) > > Luminita > > > > Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2022 17:57:10 +0100 > From: Uli <johannes-ulrich-urban@t-online.de> > To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > Subject: [pbs] new forum > Message-ID: <44BC13E7-B9BB-4391-81FA-8838F4A22971@t-online.de> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > ?Dear All, > > We have used this email list to communicate within the membership for a > long time and many call this list a forum. Let's not get confused about the > terminology...... Personally I have grown up computer-wise and email-wise > with the email lists of the > > The smiles on the faces of young plant lovers have not escaped me when I > mention our way of communicating. If we want to stay alive as a society we > must attract the young generation. But we must at the same time take care > not to end up in a superficial kind of "pseudo-communication". So we > decided in a long and careful process to change to a web based forum like > the Scottish Rock Garden Club has been using successfully for quite some > time. > > Uli > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>