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Strategic
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Greetings-
- I have been asked to activate the Strategic
Planning Committee for the Orlando IEEE Section,
and I want to invite you to be a part of this
committee. Jorge Medina has indicated that he is
willing to serve as well, and since he heads the
Bylaws Committee, he can be invaluable in
helping us to understand our charter as it now
stands.
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- Robert Pirela tonight outlined his agenda
for revitalizing the Orlando section, including
getting more publicity (letters to editors by
members, press coverage of our events, meeting
listings in the Central Florida Business and
perhaps Orlando Business Journal) and visibility
both for the profession and for the section,
pushing for more members to upgrade to senior
member status (compiling a list of fellows and
senior members for reference by those upgrading
members seeking references will be a useful
first step), better relations with the student
branch and more involvement so that graduating
students will see a reason to upgrade to full
membership upon graduation, promoting more
attendance by GOLD members at section functions,
returning to paper mailings of the Section Notes
for members who prefer to get their meeting
information that way (some sections in Region 3
report success with a monthly postcard listing
all the meetings for the month in a line or two
each), and an expanded awards program, which
will not only recognize members who have made
contributions to the section but can also serve
as a news 'peg' to get short articles and photos
in the newspaper.
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- Our PR Committee should invite press
coverage of the annual awards banquet program,
at UCF on April 12.
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- A recent Membership Development Retreat in
Princeton, NJ, yielded many ideas for promoting
membership, including an 'elevator speech' to
preface each section/chapter meeting --
so-called because it won't last more than a
minute. There should also be membership
materials at each section/chapter meeting. This
raises another question: who is our Membership
Committee chair now? Jorge gets the SAMIEEE
database updates, but is the newsletter editor
rather than membership chair.
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- A member at tonight's meeting mentioned the
networking aspect of meeting attendance --
helping in job hunting through knowledge of
other members who may know where the jobs are,
and how to contact the engineering managers in a
company rather than sending resumes to the
'black hole' of the HR department. While section
meetings won't become job fairs, the networking
attraction increases geometrically as the
meeting attendance grows.
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- We have chapters falling idle (e.g., UFFC
<what happened to Don Malocha? He was the
first activist in this society chapter and went
on to be an officer of the society itself.>,
SMC/RA/CS, and earlier VT) so need strategies to
revitalize them. New chapters are possible, such
as a joint EMC/EMS -- which would require six
members of each to support a petition. This
latter was discussed at tonight's Excom
meeting.
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- Please advise me of your willingness to
assist in this valuable effort, and of any ideas
you may be willing to offer to help. I see the
initial stage as brainstorming -- we don't want
to crush the germs of new ideas by dismissing
them as unworkable as they are offered;
sometimes one person's idea will trigger a
refinement by another person, so that synergy
will result in a better strategy than anyone's
idea all alone.
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- Looking to hear from you,
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- George
F. McClure
- Ph. 407-647-5092
- Fax 407-644-4076
- 1730 Shiloh Lane
- Winter Park, FL 32789
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