Attending today: Rahel Anne Bailie, Janus Boye, Bob Doyle, Erik Hartman, Heather Hedden, Theresa Regli, Laura Walker
Quick review of the agenda (Laura Walker)
Focus on the future
Creating a couple of bullets for each committee, establishing some goals to work towards, not necessarily deliverables
What’s been identified as goals, are they still relevant or beyond our capabilites?
Have to rely on voluntary workforce – very challenging, be mindful of that
Establish goals that are realistic and practical
Identify goals of previous management committee
Reviewed president’s report to look at goals from last year, need to determine what’s still relevant
Erik said member’s directory is a key tool for the new strategy
Member survey, member relations, member directory, discounts, coordination of volunteers
Coordinator for volunteers is Dorine, Heather will support
Knowledge Resources
Struggle with population of knowledge resources
Ideas around what to do with this area
Other ways to archive and create content for this area
Save threads of the CM list and put that on the site
Moderate a blog? Wiki? Listserv archive?
Sort by category – Benelux community is already doing some of this stuff
Erik to share with team
Need a plan for this area to “maintain itself” with user contributions
New posts on the blog done by whomever wishes to add on
Not really our role to “define” what’s right – rather, promote the community discussion and debate
Marketing
Gotten people to help out on the volunteer side, working on that
Very busy like the rest of us
Growth and publicity is the key theme
Dedicating weekend to helping out with CM Pros
Areas of contribution
Publicity news releases
Keeping things in the public eye – having a reason once a week to send out a news release
Formal collateral packet?
Would be easier to market if we could enhance the site? If some things on the site were fixed, it would be easier to market
Area with the most demand for tactical action
Bob – Infrastructure
Resource Library - there are a whole bunch of them that are of interest, how can we correct the problem of people not finding them?
Bob volunteers to add anything that’s worth reading
Open to suggestions on what can be better
Thinks the member directory is great
Idea to add member profiles to enhance the directory. - Profile editor hasn’t made a lot of progress. Scott Abel adding Profiles by hand.
We post links on the home page to good list threads – can already archive, [need a volunteer to edit threads and make them work, but need a volunteer to edit the threads?] – tried this a few years ago but it didn’t get a lot of traffic. How can we make this more “findable”?
Glossary – 250 terms, now syndicated out to 2 or 3 other places.
Beginning a translation program. Website navigation first.
Executive Director
Laura pointed out the necessity that we need to be editors of our own sections
Concern that CM Pros not likely to create intellectual property.
Next steps: set regular time for management meeting every 2 to 3 weeks
Update committee charters
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