[Air-L] Voting Open & A Question for Candidates

[gene loeb]

I think Ruth gave a meaningful, needed response of inclusion of more
persons.
Specific activities should be designed for member participation.
"Elected official"s should not be the only route to member participation.
I think too much emphasis is given to this area. There should be more
positions
for this, maybe even 10 presidential positions , even 30 vice presidents
and a large
advisory group.

I have looked for ways to be more active, would like to do more.

Thanks for all of your help.

Gene
Gene Loeb, Ph.D.


On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 8:10 AM, Deller, Ruth A <R.A.Deller at shu.ac.uk>wrote:

> Oooh, difficult question as I think there are several things we could do,
> some of which others have mentioned.
>
> I'm interested in the conference becoming a bit more creative and dynamic
> so I would encourage conference and programme chairs to think about what
> they might want to do to shake the programme up - this might change each
> year depending on where we are and who the team are.  But I'd encourage
> more flexibility in thinking about things like keynotes, plenaries or even
> panel formats.  Not necessarily to do away with things but to allow freedom
> to try new things out.  In that vein, given that many of our members can't
> get to the conferences due to the costs of flights etc, I would like to see
> something in the programme whereby we could connect with them - streaming
> talks (or some of the talks) and maybe even having some of them present
> virtually in certain panels.  I would look to work with the programme and
> conference chair about this to see if we can get the technology to make it
> happen.
>
>
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> air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Alexander Halavais
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> Subject: [Air-L] Voting Open & A Question for Candidates
>
> Dear AoIR Members (and members of the broader community),
>
> Just a reminder that AoIR elections are now open, and will be until the
> end of the month. I want to encourage all members to vote. There are lots
> of ways to help contribute to and shape the future of an organization like
> ours, and electing an executive committee that represents your interests is
> one of these.
>
> I have not yet voted and I'm hoping the candidates can answer a question
> for me. (And I hope others will ask questions as well, despite the looming
> deadline!)
>
> I've looked over your candidate statements (linked here:
>
> http://aoir.org/2013-executive-committee-election-candidate-statements-voting-information/
> )
> and I recognize and agree with the need to increase connections among
> members outside of the conference setting--something that several of you
> noted. That said, I wonder what single, concrete change you would most like
> to see in the conferences themselves, and how you might suggest bringing
> that about. What would you like to see in, say, Bangkok for 2014 that we
> haven't seen in previous conferences? (If anything!) And what can you do to
> help make that happen?
>
> Thank you all for running, and I look forward to your responses.
>
> Best,
>
> Alex
>
>
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With Sincerest Best Wishes ,
Gene
Gene Loeb, Ph.D.