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- SCOOP, December
2003
Published for IEEE Section
Chairs
Vicki Waldman, Editor; Tracy Hawkins, Manager
Section/Chapter Support
- Contents:
- Query For Your Unit's Meeting
Reports On The Web
- Introduce A Girl To Engineering
Day ? Celebrated Globally
- Measure The Success Rate Of
Membership Promotions
- Recruiting and Retaining
Volunteers, Part IV
- For Section Newsletters:
- IEEE Xplore(R) Links Now
Appear In Google Searches
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- QUERY FOR YOUR UNIT'S MEETING
REPORTS ON THE WEB
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- You can now obtain, via the web, a detailed report of
L31 meeting activity submitted by your Unit and any
Subunits. Go to https://www.ieee.org/L31
and click the link for the L31 form. At the top of the
page is a link to query reports of data that have been
submitted. Simply select by name of the parent unit to
view submitted reports. No passwords are needed.
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- Reports of meeting and financial activity and 2004
unit officers are due by 20 February 2004. Secretaries
and Treasurers have been notified via email and Section
and Council Treasurers will receive hard copy forms as
well. If your reports are submitted electronically, it is
not necessary to send hard copy of the same forms.
Questions about the web forms or the required annual
reports may be sent to sec-rebate@ieee.org.
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- For Units participating in the Concentration Banking
program and Custody Accounts, year-end statements will be
available on the web by 15 January 2002. If your Unit
does not currently have access to your web statements,
send an email to concentration-banking@ieee.org.
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- INTRODUCE A GIRL TO ENGINEERING
DAY ? CELEBRATED GLOBALLY
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- Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day, now in its
fourth year, is slated for 26 February 2004. Girl Day
encourages engineers ? particularly women engineers ? to
make the world of engineering come alive for young
females. Since its inception, an estimated one million
girls have experienced engineering firsthand each year,
with more than 110 organizations participating in 2003.
To learn more and for suggestions on how you can
participate, visit: www.eweek.org/site/News/Eweek/girlsday.shtml.
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- MEASURE THE SUCCESS RATE OF
MEMBERSHIP PROMOTIONS
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- Does your Section measure the success rate of its
membership promotions? A good way to measure membership
promotions is through tracking codes. Tracking codes are
computer-generated numbers that are assigned to specific
membership promotions or events. The code is placed on
the back of paper membership applications for processing
purposes. The unique identifier enables authorized
volunteers to query on specific data from the
SAMIeee
- membership database, including names, addresses,
member numbers, and contact information for new members.
If your unit would like to measure the success rate of
your membership promotion through the use of tracking
codes, contact Felicia Taylor - Membership Development-
via email at f.taylor@ieee.org.
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- RECRUITING AND RETAINING
VOLUNTEERS, PART IV
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- What volunteers need: "A task that matches interests
and reasons for volunteering*." Individual motives for
volunteering are varied. Motives can include fulfilling
social needs, looking for a challenge,
- self-improvement, or even being bored with the
line-up of programs on television.
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- How can you find out what would motivate your
Section's members to volunteer? Ask them. You can
survey all Section members to start and then create a
questionnaire for new members to complete when welcoming
them to the Section. Your survey should be sent to a
member list filtered by location and member grade,
keeping in mind that not all grades are qualified to
serve in Section officer positions. The survey should
include the types of positions available, the skills
needed to fill them and the time commitment involved.
Also include a choice of the best days and times for
volunteer activity. [If your Section has
successfully completed such a survey, we would appreciate
it if you would send a copy to Vicki Waldman at v.waldman@ieee.org
so it can be shared with other Sections.]
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- To encourage a higher response rate to your survey,
try the method that worked for the Cincinnati Section
when they did a survey to determine members' meeting
preferences. They entered respondents in a random
drawing to win a $25 gift certificate at a local
technology store and received a much better rate of
response than with past surveys.
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- (*from "Volunteers: How to Get Them, How to Keep
Them" by Helen Little; page 19, Panacea Press, Inc.
Naperville IL., 1999)
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- For Section Newsletters:
- IEEE XPLORE(R) LINKS NOW APPEAR
IN GOOGLE SEARCHES
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- The Google search engine now displays content from
IEEE scholarly journals and other publications in
relevant keyword search results. Following an agreement
made earlier this year between Google and the IEEE,
Google is currently indexing the abstract records for
online IEEE technical documents and standards available
through the IEEE Xplore(R) online delivery
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