Executive Committee Minutes, August 14, 2018

Participants: John Grohol, Sarah Krüg, Janice McCallum, Danny Sands, Joe Ternullo Minutes from July 10, 2018 meeting July Exec Committee Minutes (Janice) approved                                                              Doc Tom Award Criteria are set, notifications started (President Letter, Blog post). Needed now:    – Judges. One Board member, 2 SPM members. Need to identify potential judges and get commitments from them.    – Stimulate nominees. Ideas for cross-posting, getting the word out to encourage submission of nominees.    – Mitigation: what if insufficient nominees? (Ideas? We should all nominate!) Joe: Nancy Finn has been incapacitated due to injury, which has hampered her ability to work on the Doc Tom awards. The nominating process is as follows: send email to submit nominations. Danny recommends we pick a date on which we make a decision: if we don’t have sufficient number of nominees, we should call it off for 2018. He suggests we communicate to the full board that we need each of them to submit 1 or 2 nominations. We should also ask social media group to beat the drum. Sue pointed out we need a committee of a few people to judge nominations. Joe: We also need a dignified, appropriate award that honors Doc Tom & the award winner. Conference Booth Sue and Judy (1 day) to be there. Janice will help. Booth 512. Joe probably won’t be there.  We need a couple mor...
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