Symposium planning Things are well underway. Presenters are slowly sending their footage in for editing. Jill Korgimagi and I are gradually building out the videos to be shown during the symposium. Kyle Meyer our Social Media guru is crushing it with multiple posts per week to Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn. If you notice an ASGS post online, like it and repost it. This helps a lot to get the word out. The Art Auction is slowly receiving donations AND we could use a lot more items. This might be a great year to donate for the first time. It’s my first time. I’ve donated a one of a kind martini glass I made a few years ago. The Auction is online. It will have a worldwide audience. If you want your work to be seen by a larger audience. This is a great way to do it. Click here and scroll to the bottom of the page to learn about how to donate an item. The home office and I have just published the revised material for exhibitor and sponsors this year. It’s the least expensive opportunity to be an exhibitor ever. If you know of a company that might be interested point them here for more information.
Technical References I created a new page in our library called Technical References. Here is that page. The first document that’s been added is the long missing Methods and Materials Handbook. This massive collection of tech tips, glass shop hints, practices and procedures used to be mailed to each member when they joined. Some of it is outdated. Some of it might be dangerous to try given what we know today. Some of it is very helpful or hard to find information. It was assembled by the ASGS founding fathers in the 1950’s and 1960’s for use by members….. and It’s back. Maybe you know of a document that would be good to post here for members to use. Please contact me directly with your information Click to reveal
Video Library I’ve been working with the home office and the webmaster to create a searchable video library to hold our symposium (and other) videos. Because of some behind the scenes technical details, it’s been a painfully slow process to bring this online. This week we took a big step forward. The search engine seems to be working. You will be able to search by date, location, author, category (hashtag) or any of the text description of the video. The next step is to load a dozen or so videos and retest. If it all still works I’ll flick the switch and we’ll be in business for ourselves and no longer need the quirky unpredictable link to Flow Magazine.
Mail forwarding It’s one of those naggy behind the scenes things that makes life difficult even though it’s mostly invisible: email forwarding. Over the past few years we’ve had a hard time using ASGS based addresses. They forwarded inconsistently. Sometimes the mail never got delivered. Other times it was labeled as spam. With help from the home office it seems we’ve figured out an entirely different way to forward asgs based email. It’s been tested by the treasurer and executive secretary and seems to work for both of them. Over the next few weeks we’ll gradually switch all the remaining addresses and forwarders to the new system and hopefully put an end to inconsistent email service for asgs based addresses. If you have such an address and it’s not working let me know Click to reveal I’ll bump you to the front of the change line.
Ok enough for now. Tomorrow I’m off to Baton Rouge to meet with the SW section for their spring meeting. I really enjoy talking to members and hearing about their ASGS experience, what’s working and what could use improvement. If you’re planning a section meeting. I’d love to get an invitation to join you, keep me in mind.
