Hi all
The COG Committee, with the expert assistance of David McDonald, has now arranged for there to be an online version of the COG name survey that featured in Gang-gang and was circulated through the chatline last week (see below, and attached
slightly updated version).
Please go to
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/COGname1
to complete the survey online!
With thanks
Steve Read
on behalf of the COG Committee
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Subject: Survey about COG's name
Extract from July issue of Gang-gang:
What’s in a name – the Canberra Ornithologists Group
COG Members, we would like your input!
One of the issues raised in our 2019 membership survey was that some members are not enthusiastic about the name Canberra Ornithologists Group, and so the idea of COG using a new or different name was discussed during the Strategic Planning
meetings that the COG committee held in late 2020 and early 2021.
Reasons for considering a different name include:
- the name Canberra Ornithologists Group can be unwieldy, not understood, or too hard to pronounce. This is especially the case for non-members (as members, we have likely become quite used to the abbreviation
‘COG’)
- ornithology only addresses one of the club’s three objectives and purposes (which broadly are education, research and conservation of the birds of the Canberra region).
There are also reasons that the name Canberra Ornithologists Group remain unchanged:
- the name has served the club for decades, is well recognised, and has a good reputation throughout the ACT.
As members we have the option of keeping the name unchanged, formally changing COG’s name, or adopting a ‘trading name’ while keeping Canberra Ornithologists Group as the legal name (for example, we already title our website and chatline
‘Canberra Birds’, and although we don’t use that name elsewhere, we could start to).
If you have any thoughts on this for the committee to consider, please consider filling out the brief survey on Page 16. The committee will review the responses, and bring a consensus view back to the membership for discussion. Any change
to COG’s legal name would require a vote at the AGM.
Please return completed surveys by Saturday 31 July to:
PO Box 301 CIVIC SQUARE ACT 2608
or
m("canberrabirds.org.au","cogoffice");">.
The Committee.
An editable copy of the survey is attached.
