Region 3 Director Elect’s Report February 25, 2013

Attended the IEEE Board Series meetings in Austin, TX from February 12-18.
This included the MGA and IEEE-USA Board meetings, as well. MGA continues its
efforts in engaging members and provided some breakdown of different phases of
the member lifecycle which we will use in our meetings at SouthEastCon.
IEEE-USA continues to advocate on our behalf. A focus area at present is the
H1B Visa situation. Much of the Board meeting was devoted to keeping our
technical communications high quality and easily found. Other areas, such as
conferences, were also reviewed. It was interesting to hear about efforts to
avoid plagiarism and other paper quality problems, given that SouthEastCon is
one of the first to utilize the new tool recently made available.

At the region level, we are working on the Strategic Plan, Region staffing,
and goals for this year.

REPEATED Good INFORMATION: The recorded webinar on Succession Planning, N&A
and the vTools Voting Tool which was held on October 29th on Webex is still
available on the region website for re-viewing. We had 3 outstanding
presenters.

1. Katherine Sliva, President of KELS Consulting. Katherine is an HR Expert
who spoke about the Succession Planning process and how it can be applied to
IEEE.

2. Bill Ratcliff, past Region 3 Director, will explained the
Nominations and Appointments process in IEEE.

3. Bill Tiedemann, Richmond Membership Development Chair, Web Editor,
Communications Chair, etc. demonstrated how to use the VTools Voting Tool and
how to use SAMIEEE to gather the eligible voters. The meeting is at

<https://ewh.ieee.org/reg/3/excom/meetings/2012-10/agendas.html#region3excom>.

Respectfully submitted,
Mary Ellen Randall
Region 3 Director-Elect
merandall@ieee.org