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ann robertson, backpacking, blue book, governance, hiking, OFFICIAL scarf, surveys, swaps
There’s no overall theme or topic here other than to catch everybody up on some outstanding questions and updates to the blog. And some random and nonsensical thoughts about whatever.
GSWAC (Not a Council) Survey Update
I decided to ditch the GSWAC (Not a Council) Survey series. For them to have any validity, I need at least a thousand respondents at the very minimum. The two largest Facebook groups – one with 29,000 members and the other almost 19,000 – do not allow polls to be posted. In fact, one doesn’t even allow links to blogs! I had to really scrape and beg to get over 800 for the last survey, so I think it’s going to be too hard going forward to get what’s needed in order to make this series worthwhile. I’m bummed, because I thought it had a lot of potential, and I know the answers were used by people in various levels of Girl Scouting. And I had gone to the trouble of making a cool graphic for the series too! Oh well. Continue reading
Many moons ago, the 
This time last year I was up to my eyeballs in national governance and great excitement about the October 2017 G.I.R.L. National Convention! I have no idea how I juggled service unit and troop responsibilities for the new troop year on top of becoming a national delegate late in the game, how I prepped for the National Convention, and how I kept up with the blog discussion about membership dues. This year I’ve only (I say ONLY – ha ha!) had just troop and service unit responsibilities, and I’ve still been completely swamped along with my life outside of Girl Scouts going nuts. I’m squeezing this blog post in while I have a few moments to myself. Calgon, take me away!
On the heels of my last 
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