We will be holding an online meeting for Chapter Presidents and Advisers. The goal of the meeting is to discuss and coordinate recruitment efforts between the state and local chapters. We ask that only one member (preferably the President, but another representative is acceptable) and one adviser from each chapter attend that chat so it does not get too crowded. It is an informal and open chat and requires no preparation other than any suggestions you may want to have prepared. The chat is:
August31st (Monday)
8:00 PM
AZPBL Chatroom:
http://www.userplane.com/directory/index.cfm?action=chat.loadChatFrameset&domainCode=BC9A
0622B2AE597E904840D24EF8EF95&initialRoom=&app=ch
We hope to see you there.
Posted on August 24, 2009 in General
We are pleased to announce an organized marketing effort that we hope the local chapters can use to augment their recruitment efforts. We are dubbing this the “5 Reasons to Join” campaign. Below you will find high-quality, print-ready posters that you can spread around your campus. These posters are best used in a unified organized manner so that all five of them can be viewed in a short period of time (for example, as you walk down a hall or as you skim a bulletin board).
They provide a visually stunning hook followed by a quick, but effective, description on one of the benefits of being a PBL member and an advertisement for a special page on the web site that unifies the 5 reasons and provides a contact form if the student has trouble seeking out your chapter through traditional means. Please let us know how you like this campaign by leaving comments.
The Flyers:
http://azpbl.org/join/flyers/reason_flyer_compete.pdf
http://azpbl.org/join/flyers/reason_flyer_travel.pdf
http://azpbl.org/join/flyers/reason_flyer_serve.pdf
http://azpbl.org/join/flyers/reason_flyer_network.pdf
http://azpbl.org/join/flyers/reason_flyer_lead.pdf
The Arizona PBL web site has been updated to match our fresh/modern look, but more importantly its now running off a Wordpress blog. Now you will be able to comment on articles, search the web site, review archives, and more. Over the next week there will be a lot of additions to the site as we slowly transition over to this new platform. Please bear with us.
Why Wordpress?
We wanted to transition azpbl.org over to a content management system (CMS) to make updates and posts as quick and painless as a possible. With Wordpress, one of the most popular blogging platforms on the internet, we will be able to better manage content on the web site and facilitate contributions from the top down. This allows all the contributors to the web site to write posts with ease in a simplistic web-based interface. That means more frequent updates and in the end, a more robust and complete web site for Arizona PBL.
How does this new site affect me?
Switching to Wordpress actually gives all users more power in shaping the content of the web site. As a guest or member of AZ PBL, you may comment on any piece of content posted on the web site. In fact, we encourage it. This will promote healthy conversation about what AZ PBL is doing. If you are a chapter president, you can even post content pieces to the site. Just register (using the link under tools to the right) and notify the State President (president@azpbl.org) that you want author status on the web site. Once you are given the proper permissions, you will be able to login, access the site admin, and write content. This content will then be maintained in a draft state until one of the editors (state officers or advisers) publishes it live and on the site. We hope that chapter presidents can write interesting articles about what their local chapters are doing.
What can I expect in the future?
Here are some ideas that will probably be implemented sooner rather than later.
- AZPBL image gallery fed by Flickr
- Alumni Directory (we will be working to integrate what we previously had as a membership directory into the wordpress engine, hopefully with some further improvements)
- Archive of competitive event winners. We will be integrating competitive event winner lists directly into wordpress as posts categorized under “Awards.”
- Document Library
Your ideas and feedback, as always, are much appreciated.
