Membership News

by Leanne Rollins, Membership Manager

You know that television commercial where the woman sees a red leaf drop to the ground and screams in horror? That happened to me while I was running this week. Really. I was jolted into realizing that fall is coming quickly and therefore our new STC season is also fast approaching. I hiked it home and made a stab at getting a handle on the membership portfolio that same day.

Although the council was on hiatus (and clearly, so was I) over the summer months, our chapter still managed to grow. Over the past three months we've enriched our chapter with 10 new members. We look forward to welcoming these new members to our chapter at an upcoming STC SOC chapter meeting:

• Graham Jones
• Stephanie Knoke
• Susan Meldazy
• Jane Taylor
• Rod Currie
• Tim Bishop
• Karin Ikavalko
• Angela Roorda
• Janet Erickson
• Manpreet Sagoo

I hope to meet these new members and learn a little bit more about them in the next few months. That's just one of my goals for the membership portfolio. Here are a few others:

• Increase meeting attendance by 15% by Christmas. I hope to accomplish this goal by making sure my friendly face is at every meeting ready to put people at ease. I also plan to wage a telephone campaign to nag everyone to come out to a meeting.
• Increase chapter membership by 5% this year. Since we're sitting at 151 members today, that means ensuring an additional 8 people join throughout the year.
• Personally seek out feedback about how to improve our chapter. If I ask you what you expect from our chapter—answer me truthfully! I'll be providing this feedback to the council each month, with the hopes of guiding our meeting topics, our culture, and our offerings to meet real needs of today's technical communicators.

It's going to be a good year—I can feel it! See you at the next chapter meeting.

About Leanne Rollins

Leanne recently became a self-employed contractor, escaping management roles for the first time in years. This newfound freedom has allowed Leanne to take on extra-curricular activities such as a more active role in the STC. When not writing or playing with her kids, Leanne enjoys running and soccer.