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Work Ideas for Volunteers
Last update:
14 August, 2006
Items in bold italics are currently under development or
considered high priority.
Programs: ideas, plans, and implementation for
- Finding new quality speakers
- Finding quality product demos
- Advertising our programs
- Better member participation and feedback
- Better measurement of program quality, e.g., improve program
questionnaire.
- Social opportunities for networking among members
- Incentives for attending, e.g., raffles, displays, exhibits, demos, library, ...
- Provisions for speakers, e.g., travel and hotel arrangements (see hotel
page)
- Broadcasting and archiving programs
Web site: Although a vendor has offered to provide help with the web site, we
still need volunteers to provide assistance in the following types of improvements
- General layout, e.g., design, html efficiency, style sheets,
XML schemas, ...
- New content areas, like book reviews, classified links, picture gallery, chapter news, ...
- Schedule pages connected to an events database.
- Membership functions, program planning & registration using
Active Server Pages
- Groupware for the board, e.g., FrontPage sub web for each board member and
committee chair, web-based conferencing for board meetings, document
collaboration, voting, collaboration on issues and projects, ...
- Groupware for members, e.g., discussion groups, list servers, voting on
issues and elections, suggestions, guest book, member directory, help
requests, NCR portal (MyDAMA-NCR), ...
- Web Site Map
Office Functions: Associations International provides quality
management services to our chapter, including phone answering, membership
enrollment and database maintenance, newsletter (postcard), monthly financial
reports, and tax preparation. We could use volunteers to help us automate and
improve these functions. Some ideas are
- Exclusive voice messaging (not shared with other organizations) with
remote capabilities for selective board members as well as AI.
Possibly, a separate line or basic cellular plan, for less than $20 per
month, with email alert/forwarding.
- Better design and use of membership data to support
membership analysis, enrollment drives, mailings, privacy options,
membership directory, coordination with DAMA-I and other chapters, on site
registration, guards list, ...
- Style sheets for the newsletter (both email and postal formats) with
scripts for transferring content from the web pages
- Better bulk mailing software for email newsletters (and postal?).
- Procedures for handling membership database corrections, particularly,
email addresses. (link to list
of ideas for correcting email addresses)
External relationships:
- Networking with other organizations
- Networking with other chapters (work with the current DAMA-I
committees)
- Vendor relations
- Canberra sister chapter Committee
Membership:
- Planning membership renewal and new member drives
- DAMA-NCR Membership ID --- Picture?
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Membership package : members ID, benefits, upcoming
events, help needed, skills, confirmation of membership data
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