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I recommend creation of better retention tracking tools in Scoutnet or MyBSA. For example, widgets or reports that showed our 2, 3, and 4-year retention of our programs (Cubs, Boy Scouts, etc.) and individual units within our service area would be very helpful.
Further, I recommend there be a creation, or better promotion if it already exists, of a local council award for long-term membership retention. This could be like the marketing awards, High Five Club, etc. - given out annually to those councils and districts with significant 2, 3, and 4-year retention rates. If we better emphasized keeping youth involved and engaged for three to four years we might have less burden on recruiting 15-25% of our annual membership to "+1" by December 31st.
Better retention tools in Scoutnet or MyBSA would more easily allow the professional staff to see which units have a high turnover rate. Further, this would allow us to see where more training and program support may be needed. In addition, creating recognition for those groups that did have strong retention might disincentivize councils and districts from relying on programs that created units with high turnover rates.
Moderator Comments
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I love the OLC for training - I think the concept is solid and will only get better with time. One thing I have noticed is that many people will sit down and do every training available, not just the ones required for their position. Many of our volunteers want to be as qualified as possible, and the OLC makes it easy for them to see what trainings are available.
I think it would be a great idea to list all trainings that are available for adults there on the OLC page, even if they are required to attend a training to be completed. This would include Leader-Specific training, Introduction to Outdoor Leader Skills, all the way up to Wood Badge.
First, it would educate and inform leaders of what is available and help motivate them to attend additional training. Do not underestimate the power of seeing a dot turn from gray to green.
Secondly, it would give volunteers a way to hold councils accountable for keeping training records accurate. This seems to be a problem almost everywhere, and having correct and accurate training records in ScoutNet would allow both professionals and volunteers to better tailor their programs.
Moderator Comments
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After searching for someone in the membership analysis section of MyBSA, when I click on the person's name and it opens their "Person Profile", but then you can't see their BSA ID#. It would be nice if you could add the BSA ID# field into that detailed view.
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This Welcome to My BSA from 2005 is a waste of space.
..."This Council Flash window shows information that your council can post for other council employees using My BSA. It's a bulletin board for council news and is especially useful to employees who work away from the office..."
I don't think my Council has ever used this, especially for employees who work away from the office. We use email in the 21st century.
Moderator Comments
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How about adjusting the default of the Centennial Quality Unit Tracking section of MyBSA to 2008? After adjusting each unit, it defaults back to 2007, so I've been adjusting the 2007 quality status of all of my units and need to go back and do it for 2008.
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This kind of web design is no longer used. It is annoying and half the time when I do try to read the announcement I can't because the first half is off the screen. At the very least keep it stationary. If you're hurting for space, make a dedicated box on the page for announcements of this type. Make short headlines that we can hover over (or click on) for more details.
Also, the welcome page says " Welcome back...." Could someone please code a proper non-breaking space? The problem is the ampersand is being translated into it's html entity code (&) which creates thus breaking down not so gracefully.
Moderator Comments
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Why can't I change my password? Seems like a no-brainer that I should be able to.
Moderator Comments
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There has got to be a better way of pulling up FOS reports in MyBSA. It would be wonderful to be able to click on Fundraising, then a FOS link, then select my council, then my district, and select my campaign division (scouter, family, community, or even special event). Then I select report type like $ pledged/given per unit, or $ pledged/given per person or both.
It would also be fun to run a report sorted by total amount given per person or by unit showing the largest or smallest amount first and in order likewise. As it is, scoutnet and Mybsa is very difficult to use to generate these reports for FOS. All the fundrasing links on MyBSA and scoutnet are way to confusing and NOT user friendly.
My Thoughts
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Recently, our council added subdistricts to our district organizational plan in order to get a better feel for our performance in the individual communities we serve. This has worked out very well for us. However, many of the reports available through MYBSA do not have a "stop level" option. As such, the reports default to the subdistrict settings. This makes it very difficult to run summary reports for a district or the council when each subdistrict has its own page. For example, a report the used to be 3 pages now comes out as 12.
Idea/Question: Can all of the reports be enabled with the "stop level" option.
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