Members of the Board of Directors and volunteers are presently working on a wide range of OR-URISA projects and initiatives. The table below provides the status of the projects.
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Social Media
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Efforts are presently underway to identify and take advantage of opportunities for utilizing "Social Media" in the conduct of OR-URISA's activities
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The Communications Virtual Team is working on this activity and it is being led by Amy Esnard. The YP group is tasked to pilot the effort.
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| Newsletter |
A recommendation coming out of the Board Retreat was to develop an OR-URISA newsletter. Discussions were recently held with Greg Babinski, Editor of the WA-URISA Summit Newsletter, to extend the Summit to include articles from OR-URISA as well.
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The Young Professionals SIG has been identified as a group to launch the effort in developing the newsletter or content articles in the Summit. |
| Membership Survey |
As part of one of the OR-URISA initiatives to build the member community, a survey will be developed to define what it means to be an OR-URISA member. The survey will be released to obtain user community feedback. If possible, the initial survey will be released as part of the GIS In Action follow-up survey |
Membership Virtual team - Amy Esnard is leading the effort to draft the survey. |
| Section Leaders Manual |
A manual will be developed to assist Sections in their operations. The manual will be an adaptation of URISA's Chapter manual. |
Volunteers working on the manual include Amy Esnard, Eric Bohard, Keith Massie |
Volunteers Recruitment
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A new page will be developed on the OR-URISA website that will provide the ability to post volunteer opportunities by OR-URISA, its Sections, and Special Interest Groups. The page will also provide the opportunity for individuals to post their interest in volunteering.
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Communications Virtual Team - Bob to lead the effort to develop the new page
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| Event - Leadership Workshop |
This event is a concept only at this time. It may be conducted jointly by Women In GIS and PAGIS. The intention is to provide leadership training to OR-URISA members and Young Professionals. No date/timeframe has been proposed
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The concept was proposed by Molly Vogt
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| Corporate Sponsorship Program |
In order to expand OR-URISA's funding sources, the Board has recommended developing a corporate sponsorship program. Other URISA Chapters will be sharing information on their programs at the next Chapter Relations Committee. |
Bob Haas and Amy Esnard will be leading the effort to develop a program. URISA's model will contribute to the development.
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| Member Map |
An idea advanced at the Leadership Retreat was to develop a map that portrayed the locations of ORURISA members. An issue delaying its creation is that we do not have address information of members/contacts. The project would collect address information followed by the development of a web-based map. |
There is no project lead or volunteer assigned to the project at this time. |
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This information was last updated in October 2012.
