Comments on: Bloodletting all round at USI http://www.irishelection.com/2007/10/bloodletting-all-round-at-usi/ Coverage of Irish Politics, News and Current Affairs Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:43:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: braz http://www.irishelection.com/2007/10/bloodletting-all-round-at-usi/comment-page-1/#comment-57969 braz Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:49:03 +0000 http://www.irishelection.com/10/bloodletting-all-round-at-usi/#comment-57969 I think you're right Dan with most students hooked 24/7 to Bebo or Facebook, once you add some knowledge base like a Wiki and some mass SMSing like clickAtell sure why would you even need an office ? You can get virtual receptionists and IVRs from <a>angel</a> so there isn't a need for even somebody to answer the phone, as for transcription from meetings, sure record it and send it to <a href="http://castingwords.com/" rel="nofollow">casting words</a>. At this rate, I could run a new organisation for half the cost of USI, pay myself three times the salary and still achieve five times what USI ever did .... time people got to grips with virtual organisations and USI was made one. Kill it off and go virtual I say. I think you’re right Dan with most students hooked 24/7 to Bebo or Facebook, once you add some knowledge base like a Wiki and some mass SMSing like clickAtell sure why would you even need an office ? You can get virtual receptionists and IVRs from angel so there isn’t a need for even somebody to answer the phone, as for transcription from meetings, sure record it and send it to casting words.

At this rate, I could run a new organisation for half the cost of USI, pay myself three times the salary and still achieve five times what USI ever did …. time people got to grips with virtual organisations and USI was made one. Kill it off and go virtual I say.

]]> By: Cian http://www.irishelection.com/2007/10/bloodletting-all-round-at-usi/comment-page-1/#comment-57964 Cian Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:35:31 +0000 http://www.irishelection.com/10/bloodletting-all-round-at-usi/#comment-57964 spot on Eoin, as each president removed themself farther and farther into their own navels it became an inward-looking carrerist organisation, a far cry from what is should be doing. spot on Eoin, as each president removed themself farther and farther into their own navels it became an inward-looking carrerist organisation, a far cry from what is should be doing.

]]> By: Dan Sullivan http://www.irishelection.com/2007/10/bloodletting-all-round-at-usi/comment-page-1/#comment-57962 Dan Sullivan Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:00:03 +0000 http://www.irishelection.com/10/bloodletting-all-round-at-usi/#comment-57962 Actually, a wiki page, and decent conference calling and content management systems would allow a national union coordinator/president to function quite well. Actually, a wiki page, and decent conference calling and content management systems would allow a national union coordinator/president to function quite well.

]]> By: braz http://www.irishelection.com/2007/10/bloodletting-all-round-at-usi/comment-page-1/#comment-57906 braz Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:45:57 +0000 http://www.irishelection.com/10/bloodletting-all-round-at-usi/#comment-57906 I'll echo Cian's call to hear how it ends. Its about time that USI got the decent burial it deserves. There is a need and a place for an active and campaigning national student organisation, unfortunately USI is not it nor has it been that in a long long time. I’ll echo Cian’s call to hear how it ends.

Its about time that USI got the decent burial it deserves. There is a need and a place for an active and campaigning national student organisation, unfortunately USI is not it nor has it been that in a long long time.

]]> By: Cian http://www.irishelection.com/2007/10/bloodletting-all-round-at-usi/comment-page-1/#comment-57894 Cian Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:39:40 +0000 http://www.irishelection.com/10/bloodletting-all-round-at-usi/#comment-57894 ...and in the interim it will be realised that life functions perfectly well without them and over the summer it is wound up? please let that be how the story ends Dan :) …and in the interim it will be realised that life functions perfectly well without them and over the summer it is wound up?

please let that be how the story ends Dan :)

]]> By: Dan Sullivan http://www.irishelection.com/2007/10/bloodletting-all-round-at-usi/comment-page-1/#comment-57885 Dan Sullivan Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:45:36 +0000 http://www.irishelection.com/10/bloodletting-all-round-at-usi/#comment-57885 Apparently, USI has no provision for how to select a new President if the incumbent resigns so perhaps they will all go on hiatus until next season. Apparently, USI has no provision for how to select a new President if the incumbent resigns so perhaps they will all go on hiatus until next season.

]]> By: Damien Mulley » Blog Archive » Fluffy Links - Monday October 15th 2007 http://www.irishelection.com/2007/10/bloodletting-all-round-at-usi/comment-page-1/#comment-57851 Damien Mulley » Blog Archive » Fluffy Links - Monday October 15th 2007 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 04:40:06 +0000 http://www.irishelection.com/10/bloodletting-all-round-at-usi/#comment-57851 [...] Get the feeling I dislike Student Unions? [...] [...] Get the feeling I dislike Student Unions? [...]

]]> By: Damien Mulley http://www.irishelection.com/2007/10/bloodletting-all-round-at-usi/comment-page-1/#comment-57798 Damien Mulley Sun, 14 Oct 2007 13:14:42 +0000 http://www.irishelection.com/10/bloodletting-all-round-at-usi/#comment-57798 Bloodless coups should not be allowed. Bloodless coups should not be allowed.

]]> By: P O'Neill http://www.irishelection.com/2007/10/bloodletting-all-round-at-usi/comment-page-1/#comment-57760 P O'Neill Sun, 14 Oct 2007 00:07:13 +0000 http://www.irishelection.com/10/bloodletting-all-round-at-usi/#comment-57760 The risk is that 10 years from now we'll be discussing these same characters in the context of their rise up through actual party politics. The risk is that 10 years from now we’ll be discussing these same characters in the context of their rise up through actual party politics.

]]> By: braz http://www.irishelection.com/2007/10/bloodletting-all-round-at-usi/comment-page-1/#comment-57757 braz Sat, 13 Oct 2007 20:43:52 +0000 http://www.irishelection.com/10/bloodletting-all-round-at-usi/#comment-57757 I'd tend to agree that USI hasn't really been the most successful in its role but then I was in UL and they've always had more sense than to join that gaggle of loose headed chickens. I’d tend to agree that USI hasn’t really been the most successful in its role but then I was in UL and they’ve always had more sense than to join that gaggle of loose headed chickens.

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