Perspectives Dallas Chapter of ASTD Membership Newsletter - January 2006 << Table of Contents <<
Got great news?
We can use it!
by Shirley Lee, VP Communications
As always, the Dallas ASTD leadership team wants to bring more value to our
membership, the Human Resources field, and our community. The Perspective
newsletter will bring you more in the future by having more for you to
review. See how we hope to bring this future to you in the article below. The Perspective
also offers you the best of our past by providing you access to all our
archives. Read about how to access past archives at the end of this article.
Adding great news value for the future
This year, we plan to see
our Perspective newsletter grow into
a more valued product by our members and others in our field and community. To do this, we need more articles of interest
to members and people to help us achieve a higher quality product. What kind of
people do we need?
Writers, Interviewers, and Artists:
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If you are a
member whose company is doing something innovative and would like to share your
results with others in the Training and Development field, please help us by
providing an article or interview on your experiences.
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If you are member
in the consulting or coaching area who wants to share proven techniques, or new
ideas in the area of Performance Development, please help us by providing an
article.
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If you are a
member with tips of interest to Human Resource Development professionals,
please help us by providing an article or idea.
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If you are a
member who enjoys doing research or gathering statistics, please volunteer
information for publication in an upcoming newsletter.
§ If you are a member who enjoys finding out about people and their activities by talking to them one-on-one, then please consider doing interviews for the newsletter.
§ If you are a member that finds using web tools fun and is good at formatting information as HTML, then please consider working in layout design for the newsletter or the technology (ASTD web-site) team.
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If you are a
member who likes to draw and who collects funny stories about what happens in
our field, please consider doing a creative comic or unique illustrations for
our newsletter.
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If you are a
shutterbug member who loves taking pictures and has a digital camera, please
become a meeting and event photographer for the newsletter.
If any of the above bullets matches you, then email your articles, ideas, and photos along with your contact information to: newsletter@dallasastd.org . Newsletter submissions are due the 15th of the month prior to issue publication.
Readers, Advertisers, and Others:
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If you are a
member who enjoys reading the latest books in the Human Resource area, please
consider writing a book review or compiling a recommended reading list for
inclusion in a newsletter issue. Send information
to newsletter@dallasastd.org
.
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If you are a
member who likes to read the latest information before anyone else, but prefers
not to write about it, please volunteer to participate as a proof-reader on the
newsletter. Volunteer by contacting newsletter@dallasastd.org
.
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If you are a
member whose company is involved in community or relief efforts and would like
to let Dallas ASTD members how to get involved too,
consider making a timely announcement in the newsletter. Inquire about
announcements through newsletter@dallasastd.org .
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If you have a
company that offers Training and Development programs or products, please
consider advertising in our newsletter, which goes to all Dallas ASTD members plus additional subscribers. http://www.dallasastd.org/advertise.htm
.
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If you are a
member who likes to share knowledge with others in or outside your field or
organization, please feel free to forward our newsletter or article links to
others.
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If you are not
a Dallas ASTD member and would like to become one,
please see http://www.dallasastd.org/member/join.htm
. Or if you would like only to subscribe to our newsletter, please contact
Dallas ASTD at info@dallasastd.org
for more information on how to do
so.
Adding value by using articles from the past
In addition to providing
you current and new information in the newsletter, we are also opening our
archives up for your continued use. These
archives contain great articles from people in the T&D
field, recognition ideas, training tips and activities that may be used in
classroom or meeting environments. The
newsletter archives are available from the year 2000 until the present. You can access the archives by going to the
Newsletter link from http://www.dallasastd.org
home page and then using the Archive link from the newsletter. Archives are indexed from newest to oldest by
year, then month.
The archives list contains
titles of articles from the past, as well as who the article is by or who the
meeting speaker was going to be.
Therefore, you can use standard browser options to look for keywords in
the titles or to look for the last name of an article author or a speaker. Below are the basic steps for searching a
page for keywords in most browsers
- From the browser menu, select the option EDIT,
and then select FIND.
- When the FIND dialog box appears, enter a
keyword in article title or enter the last name of a speaker or author. Then click FIND NEXT.
- An occurrence of the keyword entered will be
highlighted on the archive page. If
this is not the desired article, continue clicking FIND NEXT until the
article desired is reached.
- Then inside the archive list, click on the month
hyperlink in which the article was published in order to view the issue.
- Scroll through the issue’s table of contents
to click on the link for the desired article.
About the Author: Shirley Lee is Dallas ASTD’s VP of Communications, serving as the newsletter editor for 2006. She is a consultant/facilitator who helps organizations increase employee and system capacity to produce results. Shirley designs and facilitates a variety of team building, problem solving, and productivity improvement events. Her programs include managing time, facilitating meetings, project management simplified, workspace or group organization, and the problem solving process. More information and a productivity newsletter are available on her website: http://www.geocities.com/slee_rightfit/ or by emailing her at slee_rightfit@yahoo.com .