The meeting was called to order at p. Paul Edwards was absent. Susan made the motion to accept the agenda, and Zelda seconded it. The motion was adopted unanimously. Susan moved and Zelda seconded the motion to approve the minutes from our January meeting. The motion carried unanimously. An immediate change will be to subscribe all ACB members to the ACB-Announce email discussion list and to open subscriptions to non-members who want to join.
We will use Constant Contact to accomplish the group subscription. ACB-Announce will function as a centralized way to get information out, without having to funnel and find it on several lists, like Leadership and ACB-L, from where announcements are currently being forwarded. The plan is to have designated staff members assigned to the task of posting announcements to Announce, and we will let affiliates and others know where to send announcements which they want to share with all ACB members and Announce list subscribers.
Constant Contact restricts posting to only ACB staff members. We will discourage forwarding of announcements to other lists, since all ACB members will already have access to them through Announce, and we will encourage members of other lists, such as Accessible World, to invite people who are interested in learning about specific topics such as upcoming topics for Accessible World, to subscribe to the specific lists which cover those topics.
We will encourage members of Leadership to discuss only those issues which are related to leadership, and members of ACB-L to resist the impulse to forward announcements and, instead, to return the list to the discussion-focused format that defined it back in the day.
We also need to figure out where people who do not use email currently get their information related to ACB, e. Katie said they are thinking about creating a survey to find out where people currently get their information related to ACB. We also need to create a path for posting important announcements and other ACB-related information to social media. Debbie said she would like to see the kinds of announcements that Kelly sends out in a digest format β i.
