Hi fellow Beta's and Beta's-to-be,
In response to the Post by Erica RE: stress that mentioned a communiction issue.
One idea might be to talk to the chapter about signing up for a FREE Yahoo groups (Y groups). ). A recent search I did in Y groups showed at least 50-60 Greek organizations using this medium to stay in contact with each other locally and around the U.S.
A Y-groups account lets you do the following with one email address: Share photos & files, plan events, send a newsletter stay in touch with friends, sorority sisters and family Discuss agenda items, poll members sports, health, current events, etc.
You can also arrange it to have it moderated or un-moderated (sisters or members only) and it is easy to update.
http://groups.yahoo.com/
A second idea to consider would be to decide as a group on a free “chat medium” such as instant chat in Yahoo where each member signs up for a free Yahoo email account (it has the same type of emoticons, color selections, fonts, etc. as this Greek chat forum) or start a chat room in mIRC. Our BSP Online chapter just started using mIRC this past weekend to see if this works any better for us as Yahoo. So far the only draw back I can see with this medium is that it takes a little bit more to add color, change fonts, etc. Hope this helps
(edited post on 2/21)
Michelle