NASIG Newsletter

ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE
Anna Creech, Chair and Dalene Hawthorne, Co-Chair
 
Committee members: Abigail Bordeaux, Jennifer Duncan, Eric Elmore, Tony Goodwyn, Tonia Graves, Jennifer Lang, Jonathan David Makepeace, Jia Mi, and Wendy Robertson; Board Liaison: Katy Ginanni

CONTINUING/NEW ACTIVITIES
Website:

• Jennifer L. continues to maintain the online photo album. Jennifer D. and Abigail successfully moved the Jobs section to a WordPress blog. Anna has updated the web pages regularly and has been involved in supporting several projects from other committees. 
• Anna coordinated the purchase of the nasig.net domain name and hosting services via SiteGround for setting up a Moodle installation to be used at the annual conference. 
• A one year subscription to SurveyMonkey was also purchased for the purposes of creating membership surveys and post-conference feedback forms. 
• Anna and Abigail both worked with the task force collecting and evaluating RFP responses from ISPs and other vendors in response to the board’s decision to look for companies who can support the growing needs of the organization.

Lists:

• Dalene, Wendy, Jennifer L., Tonia, Jia, and Jonathan have all been rotating the monitoring of the listservs.  The list managers also handle any inquiries from NASIG members, monitor the spam inbox, and resolve bounces from committee lists.
• Dalene adds new NASIG members, creates new committee lists, updates committee list membership, and updates forwarding email addresses.
• D&D provided lists of active and inactive members after the membership renewal.  Dalene used these lists to update NASIG-L.  Dalene is still working to remove mostly out-of-date e-mail addresses from NASIG-L.

COMPLETED ACTIVITIES
Many completed activities are now ongoing and included in the above section.

ACTIVITIES THAT SUPPORT THE NASIC STRATEGIC PLAN
Stimulate diverse communication channels:

• The Moodle installation will provide options for continuing discussions from conference sessions, and will more easily facilitate the distribution of handouts and other presentation material.
• SurveyMonkey will make it easier to create feedback channels for the membership.

Define options for using technology and employing support necessary to avoid volunteer burnout:

• A new host that meets the needs outlined in the RFP will allow NASIG to transition into Web/Library 2.0 models of communication and information organization, as well as provide better tools for managing older technologies such as the listserv.

STATISTICAL INFORMATION
Website (May 2006 – April 2007):

• Average hits on the site per month: 222,473 / home page: 4,770
• Average page views per month: 99,546
• Average visitor sessions per month: 43,480
• Average one-time visitors per month: 5,940
• Average returning visitors per month: 3,010

Full details - http://nasig.org/statistics/

Lists: 

• 41 committee lists: 29 active
• 878 current subscribers to NASIG-L
• 37 active forwarding addresses

ACTION(S) REQUIRED BY BOARD 
None at this time.

QUESTIONS FOR BOARD
None at this time.
 
RECOMMENDATIONS TO BOARD

• It is possible to have the committee listservs set up so that e-mail attachments can be used by the committees.  There is no additional charge for this, but it will require bee.net to move our listservs to another server.  Dalene recommends that we ask bee.net to make this change for the convenience of the committee members.
• Dalene recommends that we change the policy that states that only committee members can be added to the committee listservs and that other NASIG members that are assisting the committees may be added to the committee listservs with the president’s approval.