Busy busy bee...

Sorry I have been a bit quiet here recently... Busy managing a conference this past weekend. Always lots of mopping up after...

Some miscellaneous other stuff worth mentioning.

Just started a big project offering individual webpages to my members, based on a template, and tied to their directory profiles. This will hopefully be a great source of non-dues revenue, for a start, and an ongoing one, since we're charging a small annual fee. But it's clearly a win-win, because all these individual members' pages should come up in searches, and anyone clicking through will see our website and links to all our other programs and events and whatnot.

I'm also encouraging everyone to post pictures of themselves in their profiles. You'd be surprised what a big deal this seems to be. But we bought a small digital camera, and offered to take thumbnail pics for free for anyone who stops by the office. I heard that someone surfing for a doctor/therapist is more likely to choose someone with a photo than not - when I remind them of this, I suddenly get more interest. Shyness seems to prevail here, though, and boundary issues, and all that... pish posh, I say. Excuses, excuses. Ya want more patients, or not? : )

I set up a new alumni committee for one of my programs, whose graduates seem to have mostly drifted off into the mists of time. The goal is, of course, to keep our students involved and engaged after they graduate, and if we are lucky, to attract some of these lost folks back to the ranch. There a long history of exclusion, though, which I am battling against, but I'll get there. As I mentioned in a previous post, sometimes all it takes is to reach out to people and prove that we care what they have to say.

It's budget time here - I'm losing hair already, since I have to manage the whole process, but at least this is a great way to get a snapshot of where programs overlap and might be able to share costs. At least that is what I tell myself, when I am not screaming inside....

Have a good weekend, all.