[ASC-list] Sharing ASC events

Thu Mar 21 02:07:07 UTC 2013

I love this exchange, it is making me smile as I go about other things.
Susan thanks so much for kicking it off.

Following is a bit of background related to moving our association from
"vacuum" to thriving hub of intellectual science communication capital,
along with an informal announcement about our proposed online member
community :-)

Long winded, but captures a lot of what has been going on behind the
scenes. In future we will have ways of inviting others in to the ongoing
development of the association in more practical ways!

Part of the reason I responded to Ian's original event email was that I am
*really* missing my previously jam packed interesting seminar and event
schedule.

When I was embedded in the Sydney scene and working with groups across 10+
universities around Australia it was very easy to get out and about to
catch all sorts of awesomeness, and it was also easier to be alerted to
what great things were coming up.

I moved to the very green northern NSW recently after some 20+ years of
city life and the plethora of events is sorely missed. I also miss eateries
that are open when I'm hungry which is most of the time. I do however love
the quiet, the near empty beaches, the local farmers markets, and the
scenic roads for riding my motorbike. :-)

With all the recording devices we walk around with nowadays it is insane to
me that we aren't utilising them as a collective to share experiences.
Science communicators have some of the most interesting lives of any group
I know, and if we all captured quick audio/video recordings of the
interesting events we are invited in to, imagine how rich our media library
would be as a collective!

So.... for many mixed reasons I have had a long term wicked plan of getting
the ASC up and running with its own online member community. A place where
members can easily see and find each other, network, share media of
interest, develop resource libraries of great things created by members
over the years, and much more.

We need a home to capture all the great stuff that happens with and for our
members in a way that is a bit more permanent than the ever moving stream
of good things passing us by.

This way, incoming members, branch committee members and executive would
have access to all that has gone before and special interest groups could
easily form and run projects together and develop, share or coordinate
resources.

Up until recent times we (the ASC) have not been in a position to provide
this. I am currently the only paid ASC person and that 9 hours per week is
eaten very rapidly just taking care of our membership matters, list
maintenance, bookkeeping, supporting Exec and so on. In reality I work very
many more hours for free though I am hoping that if we get an online
community happening this will no longer be the case.

Having an association home base that will accommodate all the interesting
ideas our members have will help make many more of those ideas become
reality because there will be a work space to accommodate them. This is
exciting!

To this end we have purchased an association management software called
YourMembership. You can find out more about it here:
http://www.yourmembership.com/

Carving out the time to put such a system is place is now a top priority
and this week I was to begin to investigate how we might roll that out. It
will be a slow implementation over time because we need to have our members
involved in guiding the direction we will take. It is exciting that Claire
Harris is on board this year as a VP to help bring some order and clear
thinking to our communication development for the association.

After we have put our heads together on the initial feature set and
developed a bit of an implementation plan that is doable given current
resource constraints, I am sure there will be *many* opportunities for keen
member volunteers to help us shape a space that is tailor made for our
community.

I imagine that members who have been vocal on the list about special
interest areas could come on board as ambassadors for that interest and
help us to create a space to see them through. In recent times there has
been mention of style guides, media sharing and more. Initially, even just
building informed collections of resources about each of these areas would
be valuable for members.

So now I have informally announced that we are going to develop an online
membership community for the association. More formal communication and an
invitation to assist will follow in due course :-)

All those with an interest in being involved are most welcome to send me a
note expressing their area of interest. That is, what would you like to do
for the association to make it a better place to be?

Cheers,

Kali

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Susan Kirk <skirk at iprimus.com.au> wrote:

> Love the caps.  I'm very passionate about sharing information.  After all
> an
> associations' intellectual property is priceless.
>
>
> S
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> >    1. Re: Sharing ASC events (Lamberts Rod)
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> > Message: 1
> > Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 10:50:05 +1100
> > From: Lamberts Rod <rod.lamberts at anu.edu.au>
> > To: Jess Tyler <jessyorta at gmail.com>
> > Cc: Susan Kirk <susan at susankirk.com.au>, "asc-list at lists.asc.asn.au
> > \(asc-list at lists.asc.asn.au\)" <asc-list at lists.asc.asn.au>, Susan Kirk
> > <skirk at iprimus.com.au>
> > Subject: Re: [ASC-list] Sharing ASC events
> > Message-ID: <30946643-4171-4214-98EC-3EF9AAD461D7 at anu.edu.au>
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> > Interesting? my thinking cap is on.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Rod
> >
> >
> > On 21/03/2013, at 10:45 AM, Jess Tyler <jessyorta at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Susan
> >>
> >> I was thinking that we link in with AusSMC, RiAUS, etc on a national
> level
> >> and have an agreement where they post videos, recordings etc on our
> site,
> >> viewable only by ASC members (benefit of membership).
> >>
> >> We need to think of a benefit for them too!
> >>
> >> Self maintaining...low cost....
> >>
> >> Jess Tyler
> >> SciBiz Communications
> >>
> >> Business-
> >> Communications-
> >> Strategy.
> >>
> >> M : 0408 298 292
> >> E: jess at scibizcomms.com.au
> >>
> >> On 21/03/2013, at 10:34 AM, Susan Kirk <susan at susankirk.com.au> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I wasn?t really thinking about a shiny professional standard.  I guess
> I was
> >>> thinking an ASC member with a video recorder.  And what is this
> >>> YourMembership system?   I?m really getting disappointed with this
> >>> association or rather frustrated!  It seems to operate in a vacuum.
> >>>
> >>> Jess what do you mean?
> >>>
> >>> S
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 21/03/13 9:11 AM, "Jess Tyler" <jessyorta at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> How about looking into other places that are already doing this and
> making
> >>> the connection? No use reinventing the wheel....
> >>>
> >>> Jess Tyler
> >>> SciBiz Communications
> >>>
> >>> Business-
> >>> Communications-
> >>> Strategy.
> >>>
> >>> M : 0408 298 292
> >>> E: jess at scibizcomms.com.au
> >>>
> >>> On 21/03/2013, at 9:47 AM, Lamberts Rod <rod.lamberts at anu.edu.au>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi Susan,
> >>>
> >>> Being a smallish association run almost entirely by a plucky band of
> >>> volunteers (who all have full-time day jobs), there's only so much the
> ASC
> >>> as an association can take on. And before we do take on anything new,
> we
> >>> need to be sure that we can fully resource it and deliver it to a
> shiny,
> >>> professional standard. It may be that the YourMembership system that
> we will
> >>> be rolling out over the rest of 2013 could offer a platform for at
> least
> >>> some elements of what you are hoping for below. But Kali would be in a
> >>> better position to comment on this than I.
> >>>
> >>> It may also be that there are people out there in ASC-List land who
> could be
> >>> suitably experienced, skilled and willing to look into this. We are
> nothing
> >>> if not an association of multi-talented and high-energy people!
> >>>
> >>> Cheers for now,
> >>> Rod
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 20/03/2013, at 10:00 AM, Susan Kirk <skirk at iprimus.com.au> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Thanks to Ian for sharing his "Margaret Wertheim at Sydney Uni" and
> for Kali
> >>> in pointing out how useful some sort of transcription is for ASC
> events.  I
> >>> was thinking the same thing the other day as I read through some of
> these
> >>> emails how nice it would be to share in some of these great events
> being put
> >>> on across Aus.  How can we gain access? Could the ASC fund a webinar
> for
> >>> some of these events?  Something along the lines AusSMC?
> >>>
> >>> S
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 19/03/13 1:38 PM, "asc-list-request at lists.asc.asn.au"
> >>> <asc-list-request at lists.asc.asn.au> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ___________________________________________________
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> >>> Dr Rod Lamberts
> >>> National President
> >>> Australian Science Communicators
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Kali Madden

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& ASC Conference Director 2012, 2010

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