From: William B. Harrison [wharri@bellsouth.net]
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 1999 6:48 AM
To: r3-excom1999
Cc: Kathy H. Drevik; John Conrad; Steve Bryant
Subject: MDC REPORT TO SPRING EXCOM MEETING

MEMBERSHIP DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE (MDC) REPORT TO SPRING 1999 EXCOM
MEETING, Lexington, KY, March 27, 1999

Kathy Drevik and Bill Harrison represented the Region 3 MD Committee at
the MD Retreat/Meeting in Piscataway.  Kathy was the Region 3 delegate
and Bill took part on the program.  We had an opportunity to report on
our project activities and status at the MD retreat to MD chairs of
sections and chapters from around the IEEE world.  The Power Engineering
Society agreed to provide financial support; plus, they want to be
involved with our project in working on PES' own corporate relations
goals.

John Pape, Communications Society staff person, agreed to prepare notes
from a presentation by Jan McInnis at the MD meeting in Piscataway.
Many of Jan's ideas and approach could be used as training/motivational
tools and applied directly to our corporate relations efforts.

Region 5 and Region 7 want to be involved in the corporate relations
project.  They would like  to be positioned to be early implementers
after we report to Sections Congress.  They are willing to come to
meetings and plan budgets for corporate relations activities in 2000.

Other entities and IEEE HQ departments are watching with interest and
promise to support us with staff time and in-kind support (like helping
produce brochures & materials). We plan to ask the IEEE  Communications
Department, for example, to turn the "What is the IEEE?" handout  into a
nice brochure we can use as a leave-behind for corporate visits.  Region
8 originally drafted that material and it was sent to us by the IEEE
Communications Department.

The Atlanta Section approved financial support of the Region 3 Corporate
Relations Pilot Project for calendar year 1999 and for the year 2000,
assuming we are successful in 1999.

We are looking into the possibility of delivering our pilot study report
to Sections Congress on a CD.  We have contacted an Atlanta firm that
does computer based training for distribution on the web and on CD.
They have studios and all the equipment and software to produce a
professional training CD.  We will explore the feasibility of doing a
high quality "pilot CD" for our SC 99 report and then updating and
expanding it if we get a go ahead to expand the project to other
regions.

Materials prepared by the Region 3 MD Committee in Birmingham, and
presented in Piscataway, are available for viewing on the MD Corporate
Relations Project Web Site at  https://ewh.ieee.org/reg/3/mdc/cr/.

Bill Harrison, Region 3 MD Chair
w.harrison@ieee.org
404-296-3457