ACC Program Area:The Internet - Introduction

Introduction

The Internet provides new opportunities to clubs for doing many things differently. When used affectively, it can cut operating costs substantially. It provides the potential to promote and recruit to vastly larger audiences than ever before available to most clubs. It can provide the means for communicating to your membership and to the club leadership and committees instantaneously.

The Internet is rapidly becoming an integral part of the operations for many collecting clubs, although they are at various points along the spectrum. Some clubs have developed tremendous websites which are functioning as a central area not only for the club but for that entire hobby area. Some are doing a good job of transitioning their major club operations over to the Internet, everything from member enrollment and renewals to convention registrations and ongoing board and committee discussions. Some clubs have not yet determined if a website or the Internet is useful for their particular needs. And, many clubs are somewhere inbetween.

This ACC area is designed primarily to help club leadership determine how the Internet can best serve their club needs, provide information for club webmasters and serve any other purpose that can help clubs in the ever-changing area of the Internet.

A Program Advisory Group is developing this program area and will continue to monitor, add to, and refine the information on an ongoing basis. Discussion Forums are available for collectors to gain more specific information from a variety of forum participants. A listing of Resources for this Program Area is provided, as well as a Reference Archive.

The primary purpose of the Association of Collecting Clubs (ACC) is to build coalitions between clubs, networking to share information for strengthening member clubs and better serving their memberships.