Real improvement over the old logo. I particularly like that we are now referring to ourselves as U.S. Masters Swimming rather than USMS. If we are trying to attract new members and we are all on occasion walking billboards with meet t-shirts, who knows what USMS means besides those who are already members. I have any number of meet t-shirts in which neither the graphics or text give any indication that it is actually from a swimming event. Kudos to the group who picked the name change and the design.
And we would have loved to save the money, although we believe it was well spent. The answer is very simple. We do not know what is available to us from the membership and we don't make a habit of begging for help. We do know that there are many professionals and artists and all sorts of people out there, but they do not join USMS to do more work. If they want to volunteer their services, we welcome the help. Right now, there is no way for us to gather that information except in arrears, like on this thread.
Perhaps we should have made a contest out of the process?
Mike -
The contest, or just a call for volunteers, is a great idea. Give them a time limit to respond and then if no one jumps in, take it out of house.
As an aside, I'm not sure who "we" refers to, but there was a time when USMS was pretty much volunteers, period, as were/are many of the LMSC's and local team organizations.
And we would have loved to save the money, although we believe it was well spent. The answer is very simple. We do not know what is available to us from the membership and we don't make a habit of begging for help. We do know that there are many professionals and artists and all sorts of people out there, but they do not join USMS to do more work. If they want to volunteer their services, we welcome the help. Right now, there is no way for us to gather that information except in arrears, like on this thread.
Perhaps we should have made a contest out of the process?
Mike -
The contest, or just a call for volunteers, is a great idea. Give them a time limit to respond and then if no one jumps in, take it out of house.
As an aside, I'm not sure who "we" refers to, but there was a time when USMS was pretty much volunteers, period, as were/are many of the LMSC's and local team organizations.
