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FORUM UPDATE
The GRAPA forum is taking off!
GRAPA has 2 new moderators (Ahmed and Lomako) and 15 other applicants that are in the process of being sorted so that they can moderate their preferred forum. These moderators will be given special privileges in order to monitor and police the forums. They volunteered their time to make sure the forums run as smoothly as possible. For this, GRAPA would like to thank them for their hard work and kind hearts. If you are interested in being a GRAPA Moderator, contact Carola Rusch by email at carola@grapatel.com for more information.
Also, GRAPA now supports 3 different languages! GRAPA has an all Spanish forum, as well as an all French forum. These forums will help some of our members who might not use English as their top language. These forums now make GRAPA even more diverse and accessible to people around the world.
The face of grapa
Show your face
Feel free to post your picture on the
forum! Get to know the other members of GRAPA and
allow them to interact with you by posting a picture
of yourself. We encourage members to work together
and
collaborate in assisting
each other with issues pertaining to revenue
assurance.
By
posting a picture, you are permitting others to know
more
about yourself, which helps to build
friendships between the many members of GRAPA.
WHAT TO DO ABOUT VENDORS AND CONSULTANTS
From the GRAPA President:
 GRAPA's momentum has continued to grow, and our numbers have reached over 450 in a very short period of time. Now it is time to get down to the serious business of doing revenue assurance. The first issue on everyone's mind is what to do about vendors and consultants. Now that our recruitment drive is complete, we are ready to tackle this difficult issue. At this time, the executive steering
committee is reviewing the options, and when this review process is complete, we will let members know about our next step in this direction. We want to include these very important members of revenue assurance in our own RA activities, but we also want to keep our focus on assuring RA and not on issues such as selling software and hardware.
MEET THE GRAPA ADMIN TEAM:
Carola Rusch
Carola is multilingual in four languages: German, English, French, and a little Spanish. She tries to contribute as best as she can to GRAPA because she likes the idea of it so much and its international approach. She handled most of the recruitment drive, all executive steering committee members, and is starting to recruit regional chairmen for all the continents of the world.
She lives in Germany and
actually spent a lot of time last summer at the football World Cup, once again, volunteering her time. Carola said, "The World Cup was the most wonderful spectacle I have ever seen. I was so happy to be a part of it!" GRAPA is an exciting experience to her; it is hard work and fun at the same time. Carola's aim is to help GRAPA become a real community, an association in the world's best meaning.
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