Program Five: Internet Infrastructure

Southeast JSA has a limited budget for communications. Luckily, in the modern world, any human can sit atop a powerful telecommunications network. I intend to bring Southeast JSA in to the modern era, making our leadership easy to contact, as they should be in any small organization, unifying our membership, and promoting discussion among leaders and members. With this program, JSA leaders will listen more to the membership and be more responsive to the popular will.

 

The Southeast JSA website will have its content improved and expanded under my leadership. This will cost JSA nothing and will not necessarily involve much work. As of now, little is put on the website by the cabinet because the website is little used by members. I will expand the website’s usefulness, creating a natural increase in use. This expansion will include posting of more information about JSA, more guides as discussed above, more convention information, more activism information, and more multimedia recruiting and expansion tools for chapter presidents. The website will become another centre of the organization.

 

I will work to set up a blog for the state cabinet and also a Southeast JSA forum. The blog will allow JSA members to be generally kept informed on what we’re up to, including expansion support and activism. It will be updated as often as individual cabinet members see fit. The Southeast JSA forum will be a discussion board open to all JSA members. Chapter presidents will have powers to invite members, and it will be an independent entity from networking sites like Facebook. This forum will be official and will be set up to allow JSA membership to communicate directly with cabinet and to allow discussion of important issues. It will also allow quick dissemination of information by the chapter cabinet, something that I believe the membership should be able to expect in the modern age.

 

One of the goals of these programs will be to make state cabinet more accessible. My cabinet will be more responsive to the popular will thanks to the forum and the blog, it will accept more input from members than any previous cabinet. It is my belief that any JSA member ought to be able to contact me, even if it is through their chapter president. I believe the same should be true for all cabinet members. The blog will allow membership to see what we are up to, the forum will allow them to voice their opinions and provide debate topics, activism ideas, and any other concepts to not just the cabinet but to the chapter membership.