Electronic Communications Committee Annual Report
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0 Nancy Beals, co-chair (Wayne State University) Beth Ashmore, co-chair, Samford University
1 Board liaison: Bob Boissy
2 Members: Jennifer Edwards (MIT), Tonia Graves (Old Dominion University), Tim Hagan (Northwestern University), Wendy Robertson (University of Iowa), Marsha Seamans (University of Kentucky), Char Simser, Kansas State University , USA
Continuing/New Activities
Listserv:
The committee continues to maintain listservs and
forwarding addresses for NASIG committees. To
address some concerns that were expressed on the
NASIG discussion forum regarding the effectiveness of
both NASIG official communication as well as forums for
discussion among NASIG members and the general
serials community, the committee has created a
communication preferences survey that has been sent
to the active membership to determine which
communications channels would be most effective in
meeting the needs of NASIG members. The survey
deadline is April 30, 2010, and the results will be
reviewed by the committee and the board in May 2010
and shared with the rest of the membership via the
website and possibly at the 2010 conference in June if
there is an appropriate venue.
Website Activities:
Tim H. and Tonia G. continue to maintain the NASIG
jobs blog at (http://jobs.nasig.org) and Wendy R. and
Char S. continue to maintain the NASIG blog at
(http://nasig.wordpress.com/). During the past year we
have instituted the policy of posting all blast messages
sent to the membership on the NASIG blog as well as on
the What’s New column of the homepage in the
attempt to make sure that everyone is receiving the
necessary information regardless of which
location/format they prefer (e.g. visiting the homepage,
visiting or RSS feeding the blog or receiving the
membership emails).
Char S. and Beth A. have also worked with the 25th
anniversary task force to determine the best way to
assist them in their planning for 25th anniversary
activities and documentation of those activities on the
website. We have slightly reorganized the history
section of the NASIG website to hopefully
accommodate a model of on-going online record
keeping for information such as past board and
committee rosters and the NASIG chronology. We also
passed on to the task force the committee’s proposal
regarding a policy and procedures for archiving
conference photos, using both Flickr and the ArcStone
photo galleries.
The committee also assisted the Nominations &
Elections Committee in preparing for and conducting
the board elections which, unfortunately, had to be
conducted twice due to a malfunction with original
ArcStone survey. The official election was conducted
using NASIG’s SurveyMonkey account with extra
measures taken to increase the security of the voting.
The committee has also continued to respond for
requests for assistances from other committees, board
members and the membership in whatever way
necessary including updating websites and forms. We
continue to revise the ECC manual wiki at
http://nasigeccmanual.pbworks.com/. Any issues that
could not be resolved by the committee have been
forwarded to Buddy Pennington, our ArcStone liaison,
and have been addressed with their help.
ECC continues to develop the training modules that
were initially started. The module for training the chairs
that will be given at the June 2010 conference is
complete. Modules for ongoing training for members
via the wiki and for ECC Committee members are still in
development.
Completed Activities
Many completed activities are included in the above
section.
Activities That Support the NASIG Strategic Plan
The committee’s activities this year have addressed two
of the objective/action items from the most recent
strategic planning document update.
Item 1: Expand 3 existing venues for member
networking opportunities / Create training on use of
forums
The new ECC wiki includes information on the
discussion forums in the “Members Guide to NASIG
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Communication” (http://nasigeccmanual.pbworks.com/
A-Member%27s-Guide-to-NASIG-Communication), but
due to the fact that new forums must be created
through ArcStone and that discussion forum response
has not been overwhelming, the committee is hoping
that the communication survey will provide some
guidance on how members would prefer to have an
electronic networking venue be created.
Item 2: Implement Technology RFP / ECC should survey
committees regarding communication needs
The aforementioned communication technologies
survey should hopefully give us an idea of what
committees and the membership at large would find
useful and what they would like to see changed in
regards to the new Arcstone website, the committee
and board listservs and the retiring of NASIG-L. The
Program Planning Committee in particular has already
provided feedback on the kind of project management
solution that they would like to see implemented and
while we have not been able t (...truncated)