[Sigmet-officers] Webinars, Bulletin and preparation for the annual meeting

[Cassidy Sugimoto]

A few thoughts....

1) I agree with having one free and one at a cost. Benefits to both
approaches, so overall will be good for the SIG.
2) As Stasa mentioned in another email, it might be nice to rethink
our criteria and process in keeping with other similar contests. This
may include excluding co-authored papers and focusing on awarding,
rather than reviewing.
3) I was very unhappy with the cost of the workshop last year. I would
love to hear us think out of the box on the workshop. Can we do
without a projector? Can we do without food? Can we do without lengthy
submissions? In my own opinion, I would love for us to continually ask
ourselves: how can we encourage more discussion about the most
pressing/interesting/innovative issues of SIGMET? If we aren't doing
that at every stage, we should rethink the approach.
4) I am happy to help on this in any way. What about approaching Gene
to write something? Stasa, let me know if we can meet next week to
discuss ideas.

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Stasa Milojevic <smilojev at indiana.edu> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> There was a consensus that both Angela's and Jason's ideas for webinar
> look great and that we should proceed wit them. We need to decide on
> pricing. Any suggestions? Once we decide on pricing and the dates that
> would work best for Angela and Jason, I can go ahead and send emails to
> ASIST to set this in motion.
>
> Last year's student paper contest worked fine. Any suggestions for
> changes? Chaoqun and Carrie, can you please write a draft of the call?
> We should be sending the call out as soon as possible.
>
> Also, we need to send a call out for the Workshop and formulate a call
> for panels/sessions we want to sponsor at the annual meeting. We should
> start drafting these calls. We can use the last years call as the
> starting point. I'll set a Google docs for those so that we can all
> contribute.
>
> We have also agreed to do a special issue of the Bulletin. Cassidy and I
> will be co-editors. The deadline for the issue is June 15. We need about
> 6 authors for a total of around 18,000 words. Are any of you interested
> in contributing? Do you have any suggestions on potential contributors
> who are not officers?
>
> Best,
> Stasa
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Cassidy R. Sugimoto, PhD
Assistant Professor
School of Library and Information Science
Indiana University Bloomington
http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~sugimoto