[EricH]

Maybe it's hard to join up if you don't know how to join up. If that bit of info did not get out to Akash (or his team), or any other team within the region, that is a problem--and it's not that team's problem.

Let's just say, as an example, that I were in the MAR area. (I'm not.) I've noticed the (relatively few) CD discussions on the topic--but very few even of those have the "how to get information" stuff posted. Now Bill's Blog comes out and says, "MAR is a go, welcome!" I have very little information on what is going on within MAR (besides what I've managed to pick up on CD). Maybe I haven't gotten a message, electronic or otherwise, from anybody within the organization group on how to get in on the information loop (and I'm in the target area, for the sake of this example). I'm going to want the missing information--and having people tell me "You should have the info from all these meetings" (that I didn't know how to be a part of, at the very least) is NOT going to make me any happier about not knowing what's up!

If that is the case--that the info did not make it out to all the teams in the region--then it may be a really, really, really good idea to contact all the teams and verify that they did or did not get the information on joining up. As a matter of fact, it probably wouldn't hurt to do it anyway, especially any rookies that sign up.

If, after someone has learned how to get the information, they don't use that option, then that is their choice. But if they don't have that information in the first place, then it is the responsibility of whoever is making the decisions to get that information to those people.