Marketing Director Report

[Roger de Coverly]

The Marketing Director's report is now on the ECF website at
http://www.englishchess.org.uk/wp-conte ... report.pdf

Perhaps reasonably, he says that most of his year was fire fighting on the various negative stories surrounding the ECF.

I'm not sure what he is getting at when he says that ECF Directors should use Facebook rather than this or for that matter, any forum. Is he saying that ECF Directors should not be prepared to air and defend their views in a manner open to public debate and scrutiny?

The ECF’s Facebook page was put into good order in September 2011 and remains a key information hub and communications channel for the Federation. This would be even more popular and successful if members of the ECF Board of Directors took a lead in using this platform. Unfortunately, a substantial amount of the ECF resources are instead expended on the EC Forum.

If you Google Facebook English Chess Federation it can take you here
http://www.facebook.com/englishchess
Looking through the content, I didn't see anything which hadn't also appeared on the ECF website.

So what extra do you see as a Facebook member?

The EC Forum is an excellent website for discussing English chess; however, it is not an appropriate arena for ECF board members to make public statements and I have attempted to promote the wisdom of this policy over the course of the year.