Saturday, November 21, 2009

Exciting Times - Your Feedback Needed!

An exciting new face of the AGO will soon be developed: one that includes our rich history and identity, but also embraces new trends, the desires of our membership, and the desires of the non-members we wish to serve.

Your input is needed to help craft the future of the Guild!

All Guild members with current e-mail addresses on file at our National office received the below e-mail from John Walker, the Guild's Vice President. Please go to the attached link to complete a survey about the AGO and its initiatives. If you did not receive John's e-mail, please consider this your invitation to complete the survey. Thank you in advance for your time and your opinions -- they are needed and appreciated!

Jan

E-mail from John Walker:

On Thursday morning, November 19, the AGO Task Force on Long-Range Planning distributed a survey by blast email to all members of the American Guild of Organists. All members of the AGO with e-mail addresses on file at National Headquarters have received invitations to take exactly the same electronic survey as you. Within just a few hours of its release, more than 1,000 members completed that form and submitted their results! To take the survey now, Click Here.

The Task Force has been working for many months to develop and to refine this survey. Results from this survey will be strategic as we shape the vision and create plans for the important work of the AGO in the second decade of the 21st century. To optimize the value of this process, it will be vitally important that all AGO members complete and submit this survey in a timely manner. We hope to analyze the results of this survey and communicate that information to our entire membership during the early months of 2010.

Will you please assist us with this project by encouraging all AGO members within your constituency to spend the estimated 15-20 minutes to complete and submit this survey? We hope for every member, every chapter, and every region of the AGO to be fully represented in this process. The deadline for all submissions is December 31, but the best time to complete this survey is now!

On behalf of all members of the Task Force on Long-Range Planning and all members of the National Council, I extend our sincere appreciation to you for helping us to maximize the success of this strategic planning process. My best greetings to you for the upcoming holidays!

Cordially,

John Walker, FAGO, DMA
Vice President