Location, location, location...please.
When I read the thread, here, about the members list, it reminded me of an experience I recently had with the list. I had wanted to attend one of the tissue culture workshops that Dr. Carol Stiff has held in various places around the country. A couple of them were cancelled because they didn't get enough people signed up. Then I noticed there was one scheduled for Rutgers University, in New Jersey. This is just a little more than a half hour drive from my home, so I really wanted to see this one go. (It, also, was eventually cancelled, for lack of sufficient participants.)
I offered to help by sending PMs to members in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. I went through the entire list and only got about 65 names, out of the thousands on the list, because most people did not list a location. There were some pages where, of the 30 or so names on the page, not one had a location.
Not having locations made it difficult for me, but it also makes it difficult for people answering questions in threads. An answer to a question about overwintering certainly would be different for someone in Florida than it would be for someone in Manitoba.
After a while, I noticed that some of the names I had, had joined a couple of years ago, and never posted again since then. The 65 names now became 25. Some did say, "Find me on the map", but that's too time consuming.
So, please, everyone, review your profile and add your location and/or zone. Thanks.
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John
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