Mister T 45020 Report post Posted October 22, 2015 I also wanted to mention, why don't the organizer's of the Ottawa Socials look into attending the next Montreal party so you could talk to some of the ladies and guys that go to those parties about interest in attending future Ottawa party's? It would be fun and good for networking as well. Nice idea but it's been done before. As previous organiser with Skates, i've attended almost every social in Montreal (since i live there) over the past year and a half or so until the last party in September, and yes, we've had several ladies attend previous Ottawa socials before the summer. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mister T 45020 Report post Posted October 22, 2015 I also wanted to mention, why don't the organizer's of the Ottawa Socials look into attending the next Montreal party so you could talk to some of the ladies and guys that go to those parties about interest in attending future Ottawa party's? It would be fun and good for networking as well. Done and done; as retired organiser of the Ottawa socials (up till the last christmas one), i've attended several of the Montreal ones over the past year and a bit and have talked to a few Montreal ladies; some have attended (some several times). My colleague Loneskater also has attended one of them with me a while back. The Montreal Social organiser have collaborated a tad before since i moved to Montreal. Invites were sent in the past to a few ladies of this site fora previous event - i forget which.Also, the event has been posted about the next event on other cities site by the organiser, so it's kinda great someone else brought it here. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
loneskater 25635 Report post Posted October 23, 2015 Good morning ladies and gents; As the title suggest I will be posting something for an OT xmas social on Thursday December 10th. However before I do that I mentioned after cancelling the fall social, I would let everyone know why we cancelled it. I am really sorry for such a long delay, I have been very busy and sometimes its good to take a step back and read other member's comments. That being said, keep in mind that I am not pointing fingers at anyone in particular as it has been a combination of issues that has lead to cancelling the last 2 events. First summer social: it was cancelled to to very few gents attending. Mistert and I had tried to get a summer social going a few years ago and same thing happened then. It would be great to have a summer BBQ, however I Think with kids out of school and family vacations its hard for gents to get away at that time of the year. Fall social: Cancelled cause there were only 5 ladies attending, including my co-organizer (3 MA's, 1 Out of town SP and 1 local SP) As I mentioned in a previous post, its obvious looking at the advertising section that ladies membership in OT has come down over the past year. Also I already mentionded that since spring social 2 yrs ago we had to book double the number of ladie's tickets to have between 20 and 30 ladies attending. Why? Even though we started a cover charge for ladies, as suggested on a separate thread, we have had up to 50% of the SPs being no show. Therefore we compensated by having more MA's attend as we don't think gents want to attend a sausage fest. Seems that is causing a problem for some. First one spa told their ladies not to attend the social even though 4 of them had reserved tickets. In addition some comments I received were: "too many young girls attending"or " too many MA's attending. My answer to that is that social is for all ladies in the community and as long as they behave, even dancers are welcome to attend. Also we got blamed for 2 ladies not behaving at the last social. We, as organizers can not answer to everyone's behavior. However we can do like it has been done since the first social I attended, that is suspend members who's behavior has been inappropriate provided it is reported to us. In the case of 2 ladies and one gent from last party. who's behavior was not acceptable, they did get banned from the fall social. We are doing our job!!! Other feedback I have received, is that some ladies, who were regular social attendees have stopped coming to socials because of friction with other ladies that have happened in the exclusive Board area. Other feedback is that there are many new ladies attending. Well what can we do, its a fast evolving business and members change. Another comment that was actually posted on the board, is the visiting ladies that attend the social take business away from locals. So , its many little event's which I would call political that jeopardizes the OT social. Keep in mind that very few ladies not active on this board, who advertises elsewhere, attend the social. There are ladies who never did and never will for personal reasons and we have to respect that. Therefore, given are small ladies active membership, we can't afford not to open our doors to the out of town ladies and everyone else in the industry no matter what part of it they are involved. We need everyone to put the interest of the community ahead of personal bickering. I still believe socials are an awesome event and one of the best think to bring our community together. But it's not just an organizer's event, its everyone'as event. Lastly what would help is for anyone active on the board, when you log in, take a few seconds to post the link to the xmas social in the shout box. Not everyone has time to go through the general discussion area and we had many ppl find out about socials at the very last minute. I used to put shouts multiple times a day, however I don't have the free time I used to. So some help in advertising the event would be greatly appreciated. Thank you all for your support and mark December 10th on your calendars. I will post prices soon on a separate thread. They should be same as was posted for Fall social! 12 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NatalieWood 6427 Report post Posted October 26, 2015 I'm new to all this, but a social event sounds like a really fun idea! Would love to meet some nice gents and cool ladies. Hope something materializes in Ottawa soon! 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PistolPete 61421 Report post Posted October 29, 2015 I certainly hope that individuals think about the Christmas being exactly that... A social to say hello, have some laughs, share a drink and small chat with good people. Let's get this social back in the swing of things and simply enjoy it! At least that is what I hope. ;) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Boomer 33202 Report post Posted October 29, 2015 I certainly hope that individuals think about the Christmas being exactly that... A social to say hello, have some laughs, share a drink and small chat with good people. Let's get this social back in the swing of things and simply enjoy it! At least that is what I hope. ;) Fully agree with that sentiment, hope that many of the people that used to show up come back and make it a success, so spread the word, that means reserving a spot early. I remember I think it was the Courtyard we sponsored a Christmas gift collection, was very successful. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bellafan 11341 Report post Posted November 4, 2015 (edited) I guess the issue of location has been thoroughly discussed. Edited November 4, 2015 by bellafan Problems with content. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
