Comments for Travel Out Loud

Comment on Fun. Covers Call Me Maybe by Katie

Katie — Thu, 24 May 2012 19:26:53 +0000

I totally know how you hate videos. But, this one you don’t even have to watch. You can just play it like you’d play a song.

Comment on Fun. Covers Call Me Maybe by Alex

Alex — Thu, 24 May 2012 18:53:41 +0000

Ok you know how I hate videos, but this is awesome. Way better than the original.

Comment on CISV Opinion: Summer Camp to Step Up by Max

Max — Tue, 15 May 2012 14:41:49 +0000

The word “Camp” is out of question. When you say that Step Up is less clear than Summer Camp is because the Programme changed and it’s not “Summer Camp” any more. The new name has to reflect the re-structured Programme and not the old one.

Bottom line is that we are not just a camp. We want to be an experience, a Programme, a path, an action. A change in the life.

It may be ambitious, we know, but people need to start understanding that what we “sell” in CISV is a Step towards Active Global Citizenship, it is not CAMPS.

When people say it is harder to explain is because they are lazy in doing the effort. CISV is not easy to explain. It neve has been. But we have been explaining it with all our passion a we collected thousands of participants. Everybody that has been to an ISU knows that we are more than a camp.
If some opinions were not collected in 2011 it was just because the staff didn’t plan and run the activity that is attached to the motion rationale. 90% of the feedback we got from the PARTICIPANTS (and not from the leasers)were on the same page. Our efforts to improve the programme and take it to the next level has lasted for more than 10 years. We know that after this we will have to start doing work on new name awareness.
Finally, it is hard to accept critics as “it reminds me of the gym” or “It reminds me of a bad movie” or else. If this is true, words like “Seminar Camp” in many cultures just relate to “a school to become priests”. We CISVers made them OUR Seminar Camps. People know what they are now, even if in Italy every time I tell to a 17 year old “you’ll go to a Seminar” he’ll tell me he doesn’t want to go.

Max
ISU Chair

Comment on CISV Opinion: Summer Camp to Step Up by Katie

Katie — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 01:42:29 +0000

I know the Summer Camp committee asked for feedback from Summer Camp participants in 2010 and 2011 but… actually… I was at a Summer Camp in 2011 and no one asked me for my opinion.

How many other participants missed out on contributing to this?

Comment on CISV Opinion: Summer Camp to Step Up by Katie

Katie — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 01:38:46 +0000

Do you think it could possibly go over if I wrote up the motion and submitted it to the Board of Trustees and EC? I’m leaning towards Youth Leadership Camp. Because then, when people talk about it, they’d call it CISV Youth Leadership Camp. That name is easy to understand what the program is about and is easily searchable.

It might help us with SEO when competing with other organizations for participants. I know that SEO is one of the goals of the new international website, why not think about it when re-naming a program?

Comment on CISV Opinion: Summer Camp to Step Up by Katie

Katie — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 01:34:32 +0000

thanks for reading Hana. is there a good name that stands out to you?

Comment on CISV Opinion: Summer Camp to Step Up by alex0387

alex0387 — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 20:12:08 +0000

I think it would be great if you could propose an alternative, but I don’t see CISV USA hopping on that bandwagon… It would probably make us look too much like bossy Americans (even though I imagine it will be incredibly frustrating for the Summer Camp Committee to have no alternatives if the motion isn’t passed).