by Rhonda Scheurer
A few months ago, COC member and volunteer, Mélanie Tessier, suggested that we do something to recognize members milestone events. We could not agree more that this is something we should do!
As a first step, we are unveiling "Certificates of Achievement", which will be sent when members reach 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 1000, 2000, 5000, and 10,000 events. This is just my (Rhonda's) idea of when certificates should be sent. Please see our Member Survey if you'd like to see them sent for other milestone events. Note that if the survey link doesn't work for you, you're probably not logged in to the COC website. Log in to our website and re-try the link, or find the survey under the "Membership" menu.
Anyway, since it was Mélanie's idea, of course we had to make our first Certificate of Achievement for her 500th event. See Mélanie's full-sized certificate.
Starting today, our website will automatically notice when someone has attended a milestone event and send them their own certificate. Certificates will be available under "Membership", "My Account" on the website.
Of course, many of us have passed milestone events before the COC Certificate of Achievement came to be. If you want certificates for any/all of your own milestone events, please reach out to us at membership@calgaryoutdoorclub.com to get them sent to you.
Do you have any other ideas about how we can recognize our members' milestone events? One thing that we're planning is to get a big cake at each of our Twenty Smacker Parties and have the member milestone events listed on the cake. We're open to other ideas, too, so if you think of something fun we could do, let us know at exec@calgaryoutdoorclub.com.
