[Sig-l] ASIS&T Member Support in 2007

[Caryn Anderson]

Dear SIG and Chapter Officers,

Happy Holidays! I'm the new chair of the Membership Committee and I
wanted to say hello and let you know that the Membership Committee
has got some new initiatives planned for 2007.

ALL-MEMBER E-MAIL - One of the main ones is that we will be sending a
semi-annual e-mail to all ASIS&T members to say hello, keep them
updated on various activities, remind them of their benefits and
encourage them to subscribe to discussion lists if they haven't
already. No members are automatically subscribed to any list - even
ASIS-L, thus the semi-annual communication is one of the few ways we
will actually reach all members. You will be hearing from Steve
Hardin in the next month or so to see if you have any announcements
you'd like to include in the All-member Email.

CHAPTER & SIG ENGAGEMENT - We also plan to help chapters and SIGs to
engage with their own members more actively. I know that challenges
with access to member information in the past few years has made
things difficult, but you can now access Chapter member data right
from the ASIS&T web site: http://www.asist.org/membership.html

All Chapter officers can run reports about new, current and
lapsed/dropped members in their group. Just log in as yourself, and
you will see options on the left for running Chapter Rosters and
other reports. If you have trouble logging in (try username: first
initial and last name with no space; password: ASIS&T ID#) or running
reports, contact the ASIS&T Membership Services Manager: Vanessa Foss
(vfoss at asis.org) or myself (caryn.anderson at simmons.edu).

I encourage you to:
- run reports on new members and welcome them (and subscribe them to
your chapter list)
- run reports on lapsed/dropped members and contact them (see below)
- run reports on current members and be sure to check in with them
regularly and make sure they are all subscribed to your chapter
discussion list

SIGs should contact Vanessa Foss (vfoss at asis.org) for access to their
records.

LAPSED MEMBERS

I am sending the email below to all lapsed ASIS&T members and I
encourage you to follow up with a more chapter-specific contact of
your own. Hearing from their local colleagues will have more meaning
than an email from me!

All the best to everyone for the upcoming year, and please feel free
to contact me if you have any questions about how to improve your
relations with members.

Cheers!
Caryn


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Subject: ASIS&T membership – missing you!

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Hello ASIS&T colleague,

Happy holidays to you! At this time of year, we’re thinking about all
our ASIS&T colleagues and friends. As the new Chair of the Membership
Committee of the American Society for Information Science and
Technology, I was sorry to learn that you haven’t renewed your
ASIS&T membership.

Chances are that you’ve just forgotten, so here’s the link to renew
online: http://www.asist.org/Renew/renew.html

Since you’ve been away, you may have missed the latest from the
conferences (Annual Meeting in Austin, Texas and the Information
Architecture Summits in Germany and Canada -
http://www.asist.org/conferences.html), and may not have heard of the
International Calendar of Information Science Conferences
(http://icisc.neasist.org/) listing hundreds of information science
related events all over the world.

This year also brought the exciting news that we now have ASIS&T
information sheets available for download in eleven languages:
Chinese (traditional & simplified), English, French, German, Greek,
Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, and Swedish
(http://www.asist.org/infosheets/), with Arabic, Hindi, Indonesian,
Mongolian, Russian, and Turkish on the way!

You may have also lost track of the cutting edge conversations in
information science found in the ASIS&T publications
(http://www.asist.org/publications.html) and discussion lists
(http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo).

Please let me know if you have any questions about membership or any
thing else, and we look forward to having you back on board with
the information society for the information age – ASIS&T!

Renew here: http://www.asist.org/Renew/renew.html

All the best for the upcoming year!

Cheers,

Caryn Anderson
Chair, ASIS&T Membership Committee


Caryn Anderson
Program Coordinator
PhD/Managerial Leadership in the Information Professions
GSLIS, Simmons College
300 The Fenway, P-204E
Boston, MA  02115
caryn.anderson at simmons.edu
617.521.2829
http://www.simmons.edu/gslis/phdmlip/

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