2011-2012 Year-End Review

Year-End Review

President’s Goals Chapter

Membership Chapter Finances STC RMC Meetings Newsletter/Blog Website Social Media

Awards and Recognition

Incoming and Outgoing Officers

2012-2013 Volunteer Opportunities

2011-2012President’s Goals

Initiatives Create and define a Social Media Manager role Create an Active Member Rewards program Revamp Programs and Networking Budget, create efficiencies within the organization Organize and delete old monthly program surveys Organize Constant Contact Define a reporting structure (create an org chart for officers/managers)

Chapter Membership

156 members as of May 10, 2012 – 77.6% retention

Updated New Member Guide for 2011-2012

Helped match volunteers with opportunities

Chapter Finances

Total balance is $22,532.77 on May 1, 2012 (compared to $28,412.68 on May 1, 2011)

STC did not give our chapter a rebate on member dues again this year Indicated that other chapters/communities

need the money more

Without a rebate, our chapter meetings and seminars are our sole source of income

Chapter Finances (cont’d)

Moved to the Eventbrite reservation system

Eventbrite provides us with More social media options to promote our

meetings and seminars Direct deposits within a week of our

programs

Eliminated monthly rent on our storage unit

STC RMC Meetings

Northern Colorado Satellite Chapter Meetings

Northern ColoradoSatellite

Who: Anyone When: Second Wednesday of the month Where: Truman's, Fort Collins Manager: Carmen Carmack Purpose:

Mentoring Networking Supplement to Denver programs

Chapter Meetings

Who: Anyone When: Third Thursday of the month Where: Corporate Sponsors

Lakewood, NASDAQ Offices Denver, Atkins Offices

Purpose Offer professional development Foster networking and support Total of 151 attendees at our meetings this

year

September 2011

Topic: Mastering Product Documentation in a Wiki

Speaker: Amalia Hurtado

23 Attendees

October 2011

Topic: Establishing a Personal Brand Using Social Media

Speaker: Matt Sullivan

22 Attendees

November 2011

Topic: Networking Three locations:

Panera Bread, Westminster

Panera Bread, Denver Tech Center

Outlets at Castle Rock Food Court, Castle Rock

15 Attendees

January 2012

Holiday party: Hosted by Frank Tagader

Collected donations for

Food Bank of the Rockies

January 2012

Topic: Finding Your Niche as a Consultant in Technical Communications

Speakers: John Daigle, Linda Gallagher, Marc Lee, and Tammy Van Boening

30 Attendees

February 2012

Webinar Topic: Thriving in the

Agile Environment Speaker: Kathryn Poe 16 Attendees

March 2012

Topic: Networking

Two locations: Panera Bread,

Westminster Panera Bread,

Denver Tech Center

16 Attendees

April 2012

Topic: Storytelling in Nonfiction

Speaker: Kerrie Flanagan

29 Attendees

May 2012

Topic: Metrics to Document the Costs of Documentation

Speaker: Bernard Aschwanden

Newsletter/Blog

Technicalities newsletter = Technicalities blog (www.stcrmc.org/wordpress)

This year’s contributors: Kristy Lantz Astry Julianne Blomer Julie Bettis Kit Brown-Hoekstra Regina Burks Jim Hess Joel Meier Martha Sippel Frank Tagader Marcia Wood Jean Zartner

Anyone can write a post or comment; just register or email your submission to rmcnews@stcrmc.org

Website and Web Team

The Web Team Held three very successful Web team workdays Upgraded the Content Management System Renewed our maintenance contract Created a new Home page after the upgrade Purged website accounts (will purge again soon) Integrated Eventbrite into the website Performed regular maintenance and archiving

Social Media

The Social Media Manager Regularly posts updates via the President Manages

Facebook LinkedIn Twitter Blog Adding new members to LinkedIn and Blog

May also post about New blogs Salutations General announcements by request

Awards and Recognition

Active Member Rewards Program The program is going strong The chapter has awarded 201 points to

75 members and guests Joel was the first to achieve 15 points

The reward for achieving 15 points is an STC RMC polo shirt!

2 members have 12–14 points 5 people have 6–11 points 11 people have 3–5 points

Awards and Recognition(cont’d) Pacesetter Award Fellow Honor

Deb Lockwood Distinguished Chapter Service Awards

Debbie Peebles John Endicott Kristy Lantz Astry

President’s Awards Carmen Carmack Deanna Mosler Frank Tagader Marcia Wood

Council and CommitteeVolunteers

Ron Arner Kristy Astry Julie Bettis

Julianne Blomer Tara Broghammer Kit Brown-Hoekstra

Ben Cape Carmen Carmack Lily Courtney

Michelle Despres John Endicott Craig Kupras

Deb Lockwood Evan Lockwood Deanna Mosler

Debbie Peebles Claire Schram Martha Sippel

Frank Tagader Tammy Van Boening Stacey Whala

Becky Williams Hali Young

2011-2012 Officers

Outgoing officers President, Joel Meier Vice President, Marcia Wood Past President, Kristy Astry Secretary, Stacey Whala Treasurer, Frank Tagader Nominating Committee, Kit Brown-

Hoekstra and Craig Kupras

2012-2013 Officers

Incoming officers President, Marcia Wood Vice President, Annie Persson Past President, Joel Meier Secretary, Stacey Whala Treasurer, Jessica Betterly Nominating Committee, Deb Lockwood

and Claire Schram

2012-2013 Volunteer Opportunities

We need Scholarship Coordinator Blog Contributors Meeting Greeters Logistics/Facilities Coordinator Podcast/Webinar volunteers to

record and moderate Website Managers

Thank you to…

Everyone who contributed so much to the chapter and to

the society!