To: Region 3 ExCom
Subject: Region 3 Communications Committee Report
From: William Ratcliff, Communications Committee Chair


The Communications Committee has been busy over the past few months as
you can tell from the reports of the committee chairs that form the
Communications Committee:

Public Information --- Lee Stogner
Web Support --- Chip Dawson
Electronic Communications Coordination --- Dave Green
Newsletter Editor --- Chip Dawson
e-Conferencing --- Bill Ratcliff
Archive / Knowledge Management --- Vernon Powers and Charles Lord

The bulk of the work of the committee has been accomplished using the
e-conferencing techniques in synchronous meetings and asynchronous
news groups, e-mail and the web. SoutheastCon offers yet another
opportunity to interact and discover how these and other
communications techniques can help your organization. It also allows
you to share your experiences that can help others.

One major focus for 2001 is to find better ways to understand each
other and therefore perform our work more effectively and
efficiently. Likewise the meeting of the Communications Committee at
SoutheastCon currently scheduled for Saturday morning (31 March 2001)
in Clemson, SC, is aimed at exchanging ideas, needs, issues, etc to
the myriad of opportunities we all face in our work and associated
communications as volunteers. No matter what hats we may wear in
service of IEEE, we are all just members trying to serve each other
and our communications are key to that end.

I look forward to seeing you in Clemson.

Submitted by:
William B. Ratcliff
Communications Committee Chair
e-Conferencing Committee Chair
w.ratcliff@ieee.org
15 March 2001