Monday, October 30, 2006

Inputs & Outputs #3

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Here's #3: At the recent Middle Atlantic Region Conference, our junior Institute Director, recommended a book for us to read. It helped ...
Thursday, October 26, 2006

Inputs & Outputs No. 2

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Here's part 2: At the recent Middle Atlantic Region Conference, our junior Institute Director, recommended a book for us to read. It hel...
Monday, October 23, 2006

Inputs & Outputs

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I'm working up a President's Message for the month. Its past due, so I've got to get on it. My canned one had to be used last mo...
Sunday, October 01, 2006

Back from Region Conference

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This fical year's Middle Atlantic Region Conference was a bi-region conference with South East Region & was Building Diplomacy 2006 ...
Friday, July 14, 2006

First Meeting 7/13

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Its been a long time since I posted here, but its been a little busy around the house. Anyway, last night, 7/13, we held our first Board Mee...
Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Random Thoughts No. 2

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These are random thoughts following LOS last weekend & lunch with a past president yesterday: Awards - we need to acknowledge our newsle...
Tuesday, April 18, 2006

National Convention - the next step

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Last week, 3 ladies from the national Institute attended our Board Meeting to discuss the preparations for the 2007 National Convention in B...
Monday, April 17, 2006

Random Thoughts

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Chatted with my wife on the way to her mother's Saturday night about our Chapter. Here are some things that came out of it. Programs: 1....
Monday, April 03, 2006

Back from Convention

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Back from the National Convention - its was a lot of fun, although the kids had issues that pulled my wife back early. See my other blog for...
Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Summer Planning Mtgs

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Our Chapter holds monthly membership meetings 10 months out of the year - September through June. June has historically been our awards banq...
Thursday, March 09, 2006

The Hand You're Dealt 2

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Spoke to the current Chapter President yesterday about the nominations process. Typically, we do not have more than 1 person run for a vacan...
Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Technical Committee

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By all accounts, or at least my memory, I am the last Technical Committee Chair the Baltimore Chapter had. That was FY 2003. I declined to c...
Thursday, March 02, 2006

How do we get the Old Guard back?

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We've lost some of the Old Guard chapter members due to our change in meeting location. We met for years in the Brooklyn neighborhood so...

What is a web site?

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At a committee meeting last night, we began discussing the web site briefly. I've been troubled lately by the duplication of information...
Wednesday, February 22, 2006

The Hand You're Dealt

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In volunteer organizations, you often have to play the hand that you are dealt. In a previous post, I talked about having the VP's take ...
Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Committee Agendas

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How should I handle the committee agendas? I mean, the individual committee chairs should come to the President with an agenda for discussio...
Saturday, February 18, 2006

Leader's Resources

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I'm at work trying to print out all the Administrative References the Institute offers. We complain mightily about the Institute, but th...
Thursday, February 16, 2006

Binders for the Present & Future

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I'm going to stop by Staples on the way home & get 3-ring binders to create binders for the present & for the future. How many d...

Web Master

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I spent a decent amount of time this weekend as "web master" for the Chapter web site. As I sit & type this, the only thought ...

Committee Reports Part 3

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I hope the idea of continuing thoughts with the same title in "parts" makes it helpful to follow my trains of thought & experi...