I learned a few things in setting up a
conference call. The first thing I learned a couple of weeks before the
call is you can't use a "Magic Jack" to connect to a conference call. I
bought one of those things because I need a working phone by my computer
and since I live in the basement apartment my cell phone doesn't work
very well. Lesson one use the cell phone upstairs!
Lesson two… in a conference call try to do as much listening as
possible. We had people from East and West Coasts, as far South as
Florida, and as far North as Detroit. Some people came in just to listen
and others had plenty of questions.
Lesson three… a conference call is sort of like talking to each other in
the club (without the loud music) many people try to talk, but you can
only focus on one persons voice at one time (especially if you have a
crappy phone like I do).
We did manage to accomplish a lot in the call. Some of the people there
did volunteer to become the local representatives in their respective
cities. These people will be the go-to people in each city and we will
be communicating with each other to put together the "National Chicago
Style Steppers Day" events.
Here's what we are going to do. Once we decide on a date (more on that
below) the event can start with a steppers party in cities on the East
Coast at 8pm for instance. When it reaches 8pm in the Midwest steppers
parties start in cities in that part of the country and the same thing
would continue through the Mountain and Pacific Time zones.
It's a great excuse to party and step and showing some national unity as
one big Chicago style steppers family.
I have some other ideas for the day but I'll reserve them for meetings
with the people who volunteered to work on this before bringing it to
the masses. One thing we did discuss was integrating the celebration
with any steppers organization that was having an event on the day
chosen for the event (especially since the "National Chicago
Style Steppers Day" event is for ALL steppers who want to celebrate our
dance).
We also discussed involving every other Facebook steppers group in this
national effort… So consider this as a written invitation to every
steppers group on Facebook and those who are not on Facebook to join us
in this celebration to bring everyone together in the love of the dance
we all have in common.
Choosing a date isn't going to be easy so I looked hard at the perpetual
events calendar on SteppersUSA and narrowed the dates to a window in
time that runs from mid June to mid August. Originally I wanted to post
a poll directly in the Chicago style stepping Facebook groups pages
until I
found the existing poll applications don't work in group's pages.
I also realize some people can't or won't upgrade to the latest version
of web browser (those are the people who can't normally get into
SteppersUSA.Com) so I had to create a work around for that single page.
I tested it in all major browsers and it seems to work in all of them as
long as I keep the page bare bones.
I'm asking everyone to decide from nine dates which date they want to
become "National Chicago Style Steppers Day". The initial poll will go
for two weeks. IF there is a tie, we will immediately run another poll
with the finalist dates. That poll will run for one week.
Here is a link
to the poll.
Also if you would like to be the representative in your city (in some
larger communities we need more than one) please post something to that
effect on the wall of the Chicago style stepping Facebook group
(if
there is already a representative in your city I will have them contact
you so you can work together). If you're not on Facebook and still want
to contribute to the effort just send me an email via the
contact page
on SteppersUSA.Com.
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Styles of Steppin'
Maxi's Lounge Doubletree Hotel-SeaTac
188th International Blvd., SeaTac, WA
Free
253-332-5655
The Steppers United Across
the Bay
The French Quarters
195 S. Murphy, Sunnyvale, CA
9pm - 1:30am
$10 Cover
650-906-8403
www.JustSteppin.com
Chicago style Steppin Meets The All-Star Weekend
February 11 - 13
Geno's
8204 Elmbrook Dr. Dallas, TX
(Map)
1 Day Pass $10 2 Day Pass $15 Advance
312-804-4278
http://genos.onegsteppers.com
Pleasure Productions
Friday Night Steppin'
Valentine's Day Bash
Zuhrah Shrine Center
2540 Park Ave. Minneapolis, MN
9pm - 2am info@pleasureproductionsmn.com
Tommie and Orlando
50 Yard Line
69 E. 75th St., Chicago, IL
6pm - Until
Free
Casual
773-846-0005
Dyamond Divas & DP
Club Dyamond
19755 S. Torrence Ave., Lynwood, IL
8pm - 2am
Free b/4 9pm; $5 After
708-890-7464
Day Ja 'Vu, Gerald (The Professor), & Artistic Motions
The Venue (Formerly Big Fellas) (New 2nd & 4th Fridays)
3469 N. College, Indianapolis, IN
9pm - Until
$10 Cover
317 858 5252
www.TheVenue317.com
2nd Friday B-Day Steppers Set
Mistalocks Studio
624 Livernois Ave., Ste #500, Ferndale, MI
8pm - Midnight
$10 Cover
313-204-7800
www.mistalocks.com
Urban Ballroom Steppers
Dreamers Bar
978 Pine St., Muskegon, MI
8pm - 1:30am
$5 Cover
616-821-2393
MSBU Productions & UMOJA
Shaker's Lounge
422 S. 2nd St., Milwaukee, WI
8pm - Until
$10 Tickets $15 Door
414-397-7979
