Region 3 Corporate Relations Committee Report
October 12, 2001

Marilyn Catis was appointed to the newly created position of IEEE
Corporate Relations Manager and started work with Region 3 at the
beginning of 2001.  The R-3 Corporate Relations Committee's 2001 Goals
included expanding the Pilot CD-ROM project to all IEEE Regions.
Rather than use CD medium, the R-3 Corporate Relations pilot is moving
from CD to a Corporate Relations Web Community.  The Internet provides
a more comprehensive vehicle to share information. Marilyn has
developed content and promoted the web community to other IEEE
entities. The Corporate Relations effort is becoming an Institute wide
effort, not just a region driven pilot or RAB project.

The following groups will be represented on the Corporate Relations
Web Community site.

IEEE Sections and Chapters

This part of the site will be piloted by Region 3 and people who
demonstrated an interest in collaborating on the expansion of the R3
Corporate Relations CD-ROM Pilot project. Marilyn is gathering the
names of volunteers to help evaluate the Web Community Pilot. All
members of the Region 3 Executive Committee are invited to participate
in the pilot of the Corporate Relations Web Community - web site URL,
user id and password will be available shortly.

Membership Development Volunteers and Staff

This part of the Corporate Relations Web Community site will deal with
issues specific to Membership Development. Marilyn is working with
Mike Binder and Dianne Salerno on staff in RAB to set up the pilot
user group, populate the site with relevant information and open forum
discussions. There are about 40 MD individuals who will participate in
the pilot user group.

IEEE Standards Association Corporate Members

This part of the site will deal with IEEE Standards issues as they
relate to their corporate membership. They have over 40
representatives who will be part of the pilot user group. Marilyn is
working with Karen McCabe on staff in Standards to determine the best
way to announce this new communication tool to the standards group.

Industry Outreach Guidance

This is where the updated materials from the R3 Corporate Relations
CD-ROM Pilot project live. This section only contains guidance. All
users will be able to view the materials posted here. This is where
we'll be able to post Best Practices from all three segments.

Next Steps

The community is expected to go live in November. We need to pilot the
site first before we open it up to all regions.  We anticipate
promoting the site in the December issue of the Institute. If all goes
well completing the pilot, it will be rolled out to all regions and
instructions on how to participate in the web community will be
included in the Institute article.

Report Submitted by:

Bill Harrison
Corporate Relations Committee 2001 Chair