[Sigmet-officers] SIG/MET Business Meeting Report

[Timothy Bowman]

Thank you for the clarification, Isabelle.

Best,
Tim


On 10/30/17, 4:19 PM, "Isabelle Dorsch" <Isabelle.Dorsch at hhu.de> wrote:

    Hello all,
    
    thank you for that input. It was nice to attend the meeting!
    I guess, there was something a little bit mixed up, Christine Meschede 
    is currently not part of SIG SM. So instead of her, the chair will be 
    probably Aylin Ilhan.
    
    > SIG/SM – SIG/MET Liaison (SIG/SM is the newest SIG focusing on social 
    > media)
    > ISABELL DORSCH AND CHRISTINE MESHEDE
    
    Best,
    Isabelle
    
    
    
    
    Am 2017-10-30 14:59, schrieb Timothy Bowman:
    > Greetings,
    > 
    > We had our ASIST Business Meeting with 13 people present (10 in
    > person; 3 via Skype).
    > 
    > We have officer changes to announce:
    > 
    > ·         Communications/Webmaster:
    > 
    >  o    Phiippe Mongeon – Outgoing Communications/Webmaster
    > 
    >  o    CHRISTINE MESCHEDE – INCOMING WEBMASTER
    > 
    >  o    ISABELLE DORSCH – INCOMING COMMUNICATIONS
    > 
    > ·         Membership Chair
    > 
    >  o    Kun Lu – Outgoing
    > 
    >  o    CAROLYN CRAMER - INCOMING
    > 
    > ·         Secretary/Treasurer
    > 
    >  o    Zohreh Zahedi – Outgoing
    > 
    >  o    SHENMENG XU - INCOMING
    > 
    > ·          Chair-elect
    > 
    >  o    PHILIPPE MONGEON
    > 
    > ·         Outgoing Chair
    > 
    >  o    Timothy Bowman
    > 
    > ·         Chair
    > 
    >  o    Neil Smalheiser
    > 
    > ·         SIG/DL – SIG/MET Liaison
    > 
    >  o    EDWIN HENNEKEN
    > 
    > ·         SIG/SM – SIG/MET Liaison (SIG/SM is the newest SIG
    > focusing on social media)
    > 
    >  o    ISABELL DORSCH AND CHRISTINE MESHEDE
    > 
    > Also, Kim Powell, who is our current coordinator of the annual student
    > paper contest, is also looking to move out of the position; we need to
    > recruit someone to take this over.
    > 
    > !!! THANK YOU to all those who served and WELCOME to all those new
    > officers and liaisons!!!!
    > 
    > We have a surplus budget of approximately $10k for this year.
    > 
    > We discussed possible ways to spend this money next year in order to
    > broaden our reach and to generate interest outside of the USA
    > including:
    > 
    > ·         Sponsoring a student to attend a workshop/conference/summer
    > school (perhaps in Europe/Asia) in metrics
    > 
    >  o    We would pay for the student to attend
    > 
    >  o    The student would be required to write a small report on the
    > research being presented and then we would share it with our members
    > and (perhaps) create a blog post.
    > 
    >  o    The student would also hand out swag (marketing) materials (see
    > next bullet point) and market the SIG
    > 
    > ·         Buy some marketing materials for SIG/MET (like other SIGs
    > have done)
    > 
    >  o    T-shirts
    > 
    >  o    Screen cleaning material
    > 
    >  o    USB drive
    > 
    >  o    Information sheet
    > 
    >  o    Banner for
    > 
    >  o    Etc…
    > 
    > ·         Reimburse students their registration fees for the
    > workshop.
    > 
    > ·         Hold another metrics conference in relation with other
    > associations
    > 
    > Hold over ideas from previous years:
    > 
    > ·         Redesign the SIG/MET logo (we’ve started this process,
    > but never moved it forward – I have a Dropbox folder I can share)
    > 
    > ·         Utilize the SIG/MET abstract submission data in some form
    > of contest or data sharing in the SIG/MET workshop
    > 
    > ·         Webinars on various aspects of what we do
    > 
    > More soon.
    > 
    > Best,
    > 
    > Tim
    > 
    > -- Timothy D Bowman
    > 
    > Assistant Professor, SIS [1]
    > 
    > Wayne State University [2]
    > 
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    > [1] http://sis.wayne.edu/
    > [2] http://wayne.edu/
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    Isabelle Dorsch, B.A., M.A.
    Dept. of Information Science
    Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
    
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    Website: www.isi.hhu.de/dorsch