You Spoke, We Listened

You have been making suggestions about how the Society could use technology in new and different ways. Some of you are on facebook, others belong to google groups,a few post videos on You Tube, and still others are holding electronic meetings. It has been suggested that we need a Society list serve so that we can send emails to let our members know when the Bulletin or News has been posted online. Many of you are using a wide variety of software tools to develop your communities.

We have been listening. The Ad Hoc Online Leadership Committee has been talking about many new technologies that are now available and how they could be used by the Society. At the regional Info Fairs you can pick up their handout entitled What's Your TQ? (Technology Quotient) Find out whether you are an expert or a novice. The Leadership Tools on the Net CD is available to provide an overview of electonic resources for leadership tasks. The CD prepared by the Online Leadership Committee may be ordered online from headquarters for $20. Excerpts from it would make an excellent program for a chapter meeting.

We listened to your ideas. At the May 2009 Administrative Board meeting it was recommended that we purchase a social networking software program. This recommendation is going to the Executive Board for approval to purchase it from the permanent fund as it is a permanent piece of software. We are looking for a software that will provide a secure community network for our members. This software will provide a platform for members to communicate, network, and collaborate effectively. For some of us Social Networking is a new term. It includes developing online groups, forums, listservs, blogs, wikis, bulletin boards, web 2.0. By winter we hope to be able to create our own Delta Kappa Gamma online community.

Share this news with chapter members. Some of us are not very sophisticated technology users. I certainly put myself in that category. But many of our Generation X members use it every day in their schools, in their personal lives, in their professional organizations. An online community is a valuable tool to increase participation and attract new members. This action will Advance the Society.

You spoke, we listened!