Hi Joel, Try www.share.org, then the About SHARE drop down menu. Who We Are contains the contact info for contacting SHARE directly.
Anyone who wants to join should check their company's membership first. www.share.org click About SHARE, then Become a Member. On that page, look for the box Sign up under your organization's existing SHARE membership. That will take you to a page with two drop down menus. Click the Select Organization list under Join an Existing Organization. Look for your company. You might find it under its current or former name. If you find it, click it and then click join. Fill out the form. There is a membership fee for a company to join, but not for an employee to join under the company's membership. HTH, Linda Sent from my iPhone On Jul 23, 2014, at 3:31 PM, "Joel C. Ewing" <jcew...@acm.org> wrote: > But, somewhat surprisingly neither the SHARE web pages on "Becoming a > Member" nor the page at the "Join SHARE" link from that page lay out the > basic requirements for becoming a member or the potential annual costs > involved with membership. Perhaps this is present somewhere in the > process of actually filling out an on-line membership request, but I > would think a potential member wouldn't be inclined to proceed down that > route unless corporate authorization had been granted to proceed -- and > the first question my boss asked when we first wanted to join SHARE was > the cost of membership. That was back in pre-web days, and the hard > copy information we had from SHARE at the time made costs much easier to > determine than the current web site. > > It took me a while to find most of that information on the web site, and > I knew what I was looking for. This is pretty basic stuff that a > prospective member organization would want to know up front to evaluate > what SHARE would do to their budget. They shouldn't have to research > and understand the implications of lengthy Policy and By Laws documents > on the web site to figure it out. > > Obviously if you could establish direct contact with someone at SHARE > they could no doubt immediately provide that information, but as others > have pointed out there may reasons that is difficult. The web site > could certainly stand some improvements in this area. > Joel C. Ewing > > > On 07/23/2014 04:20 PM, DASDBILL2 wrote: >> It has been my experience that many of the questions he asked in his OP are >> answered on the SHARE website. >> Bill Fairchild >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> >> From: "Clark Morris" <cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca> >> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 2:41:16 PM >> Subject: Re: Beginners question about SHARE >> >> On 23 Jul 2014 09:57:59 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >> >>> Or you could write or call Share directly for friendly answers >>> >>> >>> Toll Free: 888.574.2735 >>> Local: 312.321.5160 >>> E-mail: shar...@share.org >>> >>> SHARE Headquarters >>> 330 N. Wabash Ave., Suite 2000 >>> Chicago, IL 60611 >> In Radoslaw's case, calls from Poland may be expensive and also >> afflicted by a 6 or 7 hour time zone difference. Hopefully one of the >> SHARE officers who are on this list will respond. >> >> Clark Morris >>> Lizette >>> >>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On >>>> Behalf Of John Eells >>>> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 8:06 AM >>>> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >>>> Subject: Re: Beginners question about SHARE >>>> >>>> R.S. wrote: >>>>> I know a little about mainframes and about SHARE, but I don't know how >>>>> it's paid. >>>>> Can I simply pay and attend given SHARE conference or rather my >>>>> company hasve to become SHARE member and the send empleyr to the >>>> conference? >>>>> What about SHARE materials (presentations) ? >>>> It appears to me that you can pay to attend without being a member at a >>> different >>>> rate, from: http://www.share.org/p/cm/ld/fid=436 >>>> >>>> When last I checked, a free registration allowed you access to the last >>> conference's >>>> proceeding. >>>> >>>> Perhaps one of the people involved in running SHARE will verify...a few of >>> them >>>> follow this list. >>>> >>>> <snip> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> John Eells >>>> z/OS Technical Marketing >>>> IBM Poughkeepsie >>>> ee...@us.ibm.com >>>> >>> > > -- > Joel C. Ewing, Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
