Autumn

Nate worried this summer about the silent members of the association he was a member of. The association of LSP teachers that I am a member of (there are about 50 of us) suffers from the same problem. I like to think about it as a natural state: two thirds of members are as silent as they could be. We were surprised to learn from a survey that the association’s reputation is very good and is actually regarded as the one that is really in the forefront of LSP in Slovenia. All the other public institutions and higher education institutions were lagging far behind.

This drove us into trying to strengthen relations with members with a community blog (I wrote about it in my previous post). After we informed members of its existence, the visitation rate increased from 20 to 84 within a week. However, only 2 silent members left comments or a post. I understand that being a silent member is a safe position but being one of the active ones can be lonesome at times. But we must carry on, right?