Yee Fung Toy Society of Canada welcomes Delegates to the Mah Society of Canada 16th National Convention in Vancouver

Welcoming remarks from Jim Yee at the May 20th dinner hosted by the Yee Fung Toy of Canada for the Mah Convention delegates:

Mah Society of Canada Convention delegates, thank you for taking the time to visit us this afternoon. We know you have a meeting scheduled for tonight at 8:30, so we will keep our speeches short. I do have a few thoughts to share with you before dinner starts.

As Chairman Kan Yu pointed out this afternoon at the Yee Fung Toy Tong, the history of the relationship between the Mah and the Yee Families goes back over 400 years. I would like to see our close relationship continue for another 400 years and more. In order to do so, our organizations have to survive and prosper in the future. That means right now (and especially at Conventions like this), we have to make use of all opportunities to steer the future direction of the organization to attract a new generation.

To communicate with present and potential members, many organizations have used the Internet. I would like to congratulate Dana Mah and his committee for creating the Mah Society of Canada website. How many of you received information about the Mah Convention from this website? Well I did. I knew about the Convention before we were formally invited or even informed verbally. The power of the Internet cannot be underestimated. This is the only way to improve communication with, and attract a new generation of young members. I hope that delegates will support the continued development of the Mah website.

I can report that the Yee Fung Toy Associations have also developed their own websites. With the support of the World Yee Second Convention in 2004, we have seen a rapid development since April of last year. Let me show you what we have done.

Jim displayed the home pages for the Yee websites from: Canada, World, USA, Seattle, Vancouver, Philippines, and Hong Kong (there was no Internet connection on the premises to show the other Yee websites) on the LCD-projected screen.

We have published a quarterly online newsletter since the Winter of 2004. Hot off the press is the Summer edition. We normally print off a copy and mail to each chapter in North America and Asia. Please help your self to a copy.

Best Wishes for a successful Convention, and enjoy your stay in Vancouver!

During the dinner Dana Mah presented the development of the Mah Society of Canada website using Powerpoint slides on the LCD-projected screen.

A few days later, Dana sent the following message to Jim:

At 08:47 26/5/2005, webcoordinator@mahsociety.org wrote: I just wanted to send you and the Yee Fung Toy many thanks for sharing a grand weekend with us. The reaction to the presentation at the Yee's dinner at the Floata on Friday evening has been very positive: the Edmonton contingent was very encouraged as they had been trying to set up their own website for the past two years, Regina's Chair will be pushing to set theirs up as well and I've made a connection with a Calgary delegate's family member who is interested in setting up Calgary's web content.

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