Worlds Largest Managed Organizational Blog Network: Part 2
October 27, 2006 at 6:24 AM
by BlogMaster
Departmental Partner Policlicks, CEO Dan Romuald continues his series on VFW WebCOM the "Worlds Largest Managed Organizational Blog Network"Why WebCOM?
WebCOMMUNITY
An examination of the VFW organization early in the process found that fewer than 5% of the 8500+ VFW Posts around the country and around the world had any kind of internet presence with an even smaller percentage of those sites actually active. Investigations also lead to the finding that a substantial number of state Departments also had no or only a very limited internet presence. Our first task then became giving those local and state-level entities a voice in the community.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars organization is laid out much like the levels of government you see in our country today. There is a National level which oversees the operations of the entire organization, 54 State and Overseas Departments which manages the operations of membership within it's respective borders and over 8,500 local posts around the country and the world which make up the VFW community. Unfortunately, the VFW community has seen declining membership in recent years as the older World War II and Korean War veterans have begun to pass. This demonstrated the need for the organization to attract new and larger numbers of members in order to remain viable. >Read More
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