april meeting minutes

Treasurer-jamey
General Fund $1716.64
student fund $500.00
total: $2216.64

Adam & Steven what do you want to be?
check it out and let us know if you would like to be more involved.

President - Troy
SEO event--Brandon has materials to create invite
May event, web style
2 people from investorplace
May 22 at Delaplaine 6:30-8:00
kristin to have projector on hand, just in case

Party for Doug, martha doesn't answer phone
Doug moving in June and will attend next board meeting
get Doug involve plans since everyone is so busy

board discussion, troy needs to turn in new positions to national.
president, vp, treasurer, must be turned into national

website -- kristin and kristina to work on website redesign
mid-may to begin project

email blasts, 4 blasts before each event
3 weeks
2 weeks
1 week
two days/nights before

cecilia offered to do some research on email marketing.
kristina said gfaf really sends out too many emails regarding their events

bootcamp: next year cheri wants to co-chair with aiga,
great event, well-attended and well organized
50 students attended

basecamp is set up, everyone has access.
events tab, but we can have three tabs
two big events have tab and the other misc.

Membership – Cecilia
55 members
24 suspended
32 active members
george stephanopulous up for renewal, doug clark knows george well have doug call
social networking--my space, facebook
aiga dc list--incredibly helpful for listserv
aiga blueridge events as well as other design related events
client issues for freelancers, printer issues, etc.
troy has been cataloging members of gfaf, how will we go after them?
ways to promote flux and interest
separate marketing for recruitment and getting students to events
is a professional event? or students event
fun event with education??

Education – Kristin
flux letter to faculty
flux not just for students, professionals.
location??
how did students here about the event??
flux event, professional members get a huge discount to enter work
maybe triple discount for members
take winners of flux and send them into aiga 365 (national award show) or new regional show troy has purposed to mid-atlantic chapters.

Social Chair -- Courtney
alive at five, august event
we need to start looking at the event in june--email art completed
courtney to create art
4 students interested in coming to meetings, do we need more? have them come to the events not just our meetings.

cecilia says, "kristin's an ass."
courtney had too much cheese

Clockwork (jamey, troy, kristina)
discussion of logo, jamey explaining concept
24 projects will be completed during this event
lots of volunteers
jamey has 7 people dedicated help
troy has 4 people for dedicated help
thursday nov. 20--unveiling
sept. 1 applications
june 3, website and pr (platinum pr to help with distribution)
oct 6 notification sent out
oct 20 creative briefs and assets
nov. 19 - nov. 20 design-a-thon
chris renshaw to work on delaplaine for event
how are we showing web work? projector? showing at the delaplaine

all the opportunities to be the biggest event ever in blueridge history
non-profits will show up for this event--75-80 at event

PR with FNP, washington county, york county--sandy and troy to merge lists
sub-committee to post notes and minutes on basecamp so other members can be involved


Jared updated artwork-- check it out on the blog
june 14 -- brewery tour

Adam agrees with social networking and things the clockwork and flux offer competition and reward so he thinks we should focus more on those types event instead of lost of small events.

6 better events a year vs. 11/12 events

Leadership Event in May
Jamey
Courtney
Kristina

sign-up by april 25th
plane tickets to be purchased
find a b-more or dc member to share a room with Jamey
richmond/central pa, dc, b-more, blueridge, mid-atlantic lucheoun

aiga wiki- new chapter workroom, must use password
visit it today