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Meeting opened by President Tina Wilson.
Wilson noted that she and Rick Sherman went to McGarvin
Middle School for career day.
Minutes approved. Motion Larry Goldsmith. Seconded by Bill
Ennis.
Treasurer Emmet Kessel noted $600 at the door of the Adobe meeting.
The national rebate check was about $900. The bank balance is $5700.
New Format
Wilson noted that we have been laid back and we’re looking
to get more professional. She thought
Dennis Backer’s getting MCAI on the MeetUp page was going to snowball and with
this success comes responsibility. She felt new people need to be welcomed.
Dennis felt we should get all MCAI-OC members in the group. He suggested using
the site to talk about MCAI. Comments on the site were very positive and .he
discussed leaving comments and giving new people a shout or emailing people. He
noted that RSVP is important and we already have 19 signed up for next time.
Bill Ennis noted that Gerry Grant’s promotion didn’t mention
the cost of the meeting. There was discussion of door management and Wilson
will help at the next meeting. There was agreement that the check-in table will
be moved to keep control of people paying.
There was Agreement that business cards should be used
instead of tickets for the drawing so we can have their information and speed
up the process.
It was suggested to RSVP board meetings also and discussion
of how to do this to one-point responding to sender, not the whole list. Use of
link in email will work if everyone knows it’s there.
Discussion of who is Food sponsor--will talk to John
Coleman.
Meetings
Bill Ennis presented an outline of meetings for the year.
The April meeting being put together by Ennis will cover using video
web-sharing in business like YouTube, social networking video sites – abilities
to monetize your video. Looking for other experts. Other meetings in the works
include:
May - Dennis Backer will head up social networking possibly
with Todd O’Neill
June - flash video for websites, techniques for
“flashifying” video
July – Dennis Backer heading up E-Commerce, monetizing
July – August - Gary
Stone’s summer music party
August - marketing yourself using blogs, video and podcasts
and mobile devices
September – The Waters networking event
October – web 2.0 concepts in your business
November - internet marketing components of a
successful website
December. - holiday party Dec. 3 in Fullerton at Angelo
and Vinci’s
The Blast
The Blast will mail on the 2nd Monday and 3rd Monday.
Leadership meeting
Erik Villesvik reported on his attendance at the MCAI
Leadership Conference in Dallas. He reported a bBig turnout of about 40 compared to 20+ last year. Villesvik
passed around handouts such as: membership forms, the new brochure, Golden Reel application etc.
Villesvik noted the general trend of pushing for young
members, working on high schools as well as college. This took the form of
affiliations with high school clubs or helping to form adjunct clubs..
Discussion of if there would be dues or not, but rather being stepping stone to
becoming regular members.
Villesvik was able to report that Associate membership is
not dead as the national organization has no real controlling authority. There was some agreement that
a temporary 1 yr. Associate followed by
regular national membership was agreeable to all. There followed a discussion
of promoting it at The Waters (1 yr. Associate membership). Discussion of local
chapter getting all of associate membership vs. $45 coming back from national.
Villesvik passed out national budget and noted negative
numbers for estimated budget would shrink when real numbers were acquired.
Pro Track will be in Anaheim Oct.30-Nov. 1. Attendees will be based at the Hyatt near Disney land. There was general discussion
of our local chapter’s role. It was expected that Disneyland and the HD Expo
that week would attract participants..
Villesvik noted that the MCAI website was promoted in
regards to the personal profile page. It was pitched that filling it in and
putting links to other networking sites would have big effect on your standing
in search engines.
Finally, he noted talk of changing website master and layout
and a logo change. There was some general agreement with website change but not
much support for radical logo change.
Membership
Wilson stressed follow-up with new people. She felt that we
didn’t want people to just show up at meetings. We need to generate members and
try and get old members active. Backer noted how easy it is to email people at
meetup.com.
There was discussion of introducing people at meetings.
There was concern about the time element but we may just introduce members.
Other Topics
Discussion of how to shuffle people to possible Gary Stone
party during Pro Track.
Discussion of making member info current on website.
Meeting adjourned.
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