Rocky Mountain Chapter SLA Blog

Leadership Summit 2008

The SLA Leadership Summit in Louisville, Kentucky was very exciting and stimulating. The Kentucky Chapter hosted a great meeting.

On Thursday evening they hosted a reception at the Louisville Slugger Museum. If you were brave enough, you could even step into the batting cage and try your hand at batting. I personally passed on that!

Three members of the RMSLA Chapter attended the event, Ty Webb as one of the new Directors on the SLA Board, Scott Brown as the Competitive Intelligence Division President and myself as the President of our chapter. In the coming weeks I hope to share many of the things I learned including all of the resources available to us as part of our membership. Our membership is a valuable asset to our own organizations as well as personally! Suffice to say, I came away energized and enthusiastic about the year ahead.

Hopefully you will have the opportunity to participate in one of the February Dinearounds. Scott, and I plan  to share highlights of the Leadership Summit. We plan to offer a virtual dinearound again for those members who cannot make one of the regional dinearounds.

One of my goals is to keep in touch with chapter members and I think our chapter blog is a great tool. Keep in mind that I'm a novice. Hopefully you will see frequent postings from me and as Karl Fisch said at the Shirley Alldredge Lecture - let's enter into the conversation.

Wanda McDavid
wanda.mcdavid@access-information.com

RMSLA Past President Ty Webb - 2008 SLA Director!

Congratulations to our own RMSLA Past-President Ty Webb, who has been elected as an SLA 2008 Director for a three-year term!

Full election results can be found in the press release, but here is a summary of the results:

2008 SLA President- Elect (three-year term): Gloria Zamora

2008 Chapter Cabinet Chair-Elect (two-year term): Susan Fifer Canby, National Geographic Society, Washington, DC, USA

2008 Division Cabinet Chair-Elect (two-year term): Tom Rink, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA

2008 Directors (three-year term): Deb Hunt, Exploratorium, San Francisco, California, USA; and Ty Webb, InfoWebb, Aurora, Colorado, USA

Congratulations again, Ty!

Scott Brown
President, Rocky Mountain Chapter, SLA

RMSLA Celebrates 55th Anniversary

Six of RMSLA’s Past-Presidents join hands to cut the cake.  From left to right, Char Moss 1997, Barbara Wagner 1986, Nancy Greer 1977, JoAn Segal 1981 & 1995, Marcy Rodney 2003, and Kurt Keeley 1980.

The anniversary celebration was hosted by Monnie Nilsson and Vickie Makings of the Denver Post.  Approximately forty members gathered November 6th  on the top floor of the Denver News Building, where they enjoyed panoramic views of the capitol, the public library, the Art Museum with its new Libeskind addition, and all of Denver, spreading West to the Rockies.

Following a catered dinner, current RMSLA President-Elect, Scott Brown, presented fun facts about 1951, the year the chapter was founded.  Linda Boureois, Chapter Archivist, displayed artifacts reflecting the chapter’s history.  Six past-presidents were present, and each shared a few memories of the chapter during their time as a leader.  Current President, Ty Webb, offered a toast, recognizing some of the achievements and contributions of the chapter over 55 years, and wishing it continued success for the next 55 years.

RMSLA Officers for 2007

Scott Brown will step in as President of the chapter on January 1, 2007.  Ander Murane will start the second year of his two-year term as Director, and Lisa Backman will continue as Secretary.

Our slate of officers includes Wanda McDavid, President-Elect; Heather Whitehead, Treasurer; Monnie Nilsson, Director.

Please take a minute to read the bios of our three candidates.  The election will occur before our Annual Business Meeting. Download Bios (35.2K) (PDF)

Rebecca Jackson Scholarship

We would like to thank all the people who have sent generous donations to the Rebecca Jackson Scholarship Fund.  The latest to arrive are from Joe Kraus, Ann Stoffel and Scott Brown.

If you would like to make a donation, write a check to RMSLA with "Scholarship" in the memo field and send it to:

Pamela Gross
Sr. Research Analyst, IHS
Engineering
Research Center  M/S A109
15 Inverness Way E
Englewood, CO 80112 USA

Ty Webb

RMSLA Logo

Did you notice the graphic we're using on the RMSLA blog?  It's the new logo for the chapter!  Designed by SLA's graphic artist, Nathan Yungkans, we think it incorporates SLA's colors and "swoosh" very effectively into a graphic representation of our beautiful mountains.  The curved lines link us with our parent organization while also representing the mountain winds.  The purple of SLA is perfect for our purple mountains majesty.  The lines give movement to the design, reflecting the dynamic personality of our chapter.  We will use the logo in chapter communications and in our promotional material for SLA's 2007 Conference to be held here in Denver!

RMSLA's Blog is Live

RMSLA now has its own blog!

There are many benefits, including

• Getting information out to you faster 
• Providing a constant flow of information
• Offering flexible delivery (use your blog aggregator, blog alert or RSS reader for delivery on any device)
  
• Creating a dynamic interface by enabling you to provide comments, input, etc.   
• Capturing an historical view of the content (by date, author, topic, etc.)

In addition to the flexibility and dynamic opportunities connected to a blog, we will also have a regular publishing schedule for certain types of content, and we will maintain editorial control. Our blog is replacing our quarterly newsletter.

And we will have a variety of newsletter-type sections to the blog.  We willl be requesting content regularly for the areas of:

• Chapter News and Events
• Event Reports
  
• Feature Articles
  
• President's Notes
  
• People Spotlight
  
• Resource Spotlight

If you have other ideas or suggestions, please let Christy know ( christy.confetti@sun.com ).

Ty