[DVBC] ride routes

[domzdvbc at att.net]

I agree with Jon and Drew.  At a minimum, the cue sheets should reside on the DVBC website.

For a number of years, the club has struggled with posting cue sheets on the Web.  Who would develop them?  How would they be maintained (in case of construction, road/bridge closures, etc.)?  Would they encourage new cyclists to ride with and eventually join the club?  Would others take our hard work and use it for purposes that would undermine the club?

It's a tough call.  I wish we had feedback from other clubs about what has worked for them.  (Didn't we discuss cue sheets at one of the BAC conferences?)  But the bottom line is the DVBC (and any organization, for that matter) needs new ideas and members to keep growing and the momentum going.

Keep the ideas flowing, everyone!

Dom

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> My few cents: I agree about trying to centralize this kind of info on our own 
> site rather than on a third party site. 
> 
> New and prospective members/riders are less likely to want to visit an external 
> site such as bikely, since they aren't familiar with what it is and how it 
> works. Double whammy if they're new to cycling and the web community. 
> 
> A good way to leverage these useful online tools may be to use Bikely (or 
> similar) to produce the cue sheet, but save a printable version on our website 
> so that our own repository grows. And we can link our ride announcements to the 
> cue sheet library. 
> 
> In support of the good ideas Drew has been putting forth, I would like to say 
> that dropping barriers to new members should be on our minds with *all* of our 
> initiatives. If you're not in the club, and you're not a long time rider, a lot 
> of the ways we say things and do things can appear exclusionary. Not to be 
> overly dramatic, but the continued life of the club will depend on the continual 
> additions to membership and ridership. We have to encourage that -- not only 
> while we're out on the roads, but before our new riders even decide to come out 
> with us. 
> 
> Boat Shoes 
> 
> 
> dvbc-list at dvbc.org wrote: 
> >If the goal is to help the club, then putting our club's ride leaders' 
> >routes on Bikely is not the best way to go. A much better value for the club 
> >would be making and posting cue sheets on the club website. Posting on 
> >DVBC would provide a unique value proposition that attracts interested 
> >riders to the club's primary public interface which in turn helps boost 
> >regular ride participation and awareness, drive membership, and increase 
> >event attendance. Putting the same information on another website 
> >potentially undermines that unique value that we can offer. 
> > 
> >Creating cue sheets is a good and valuable project. We have 
> >started discussions and are planning a major revision of the club's 
> >website on which cue sheets will have a prominent place. Let's just try to 
> >maximize the return on effort and benefit to the club. 
> > 
> >Drew 
> > 
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