Two For Two!

Fellow IFMA Sacramento Valley Chapter Members, We are pleased to announce that our chapter is the proud recipient of the 2009 Award of Excellence for Web Communications Small Chapter Division! This award is the culmination of a long road starting in 2004 when we first began sketching plans to redesign and re-launch our then ragtag website. There was robust committee discussion that resulted in a framework that has made our website worthy of this award. Most importantly, however, we owe a tremendous amount of gratitude to our webmaster, Kathleen Smith with Wulfwerks. Kathleen is intimately familiar with the workings of an IFMA chapter and similar associations having worked with the San Francisco chapter for many years. Besides helping us with design and implementation, Kathleen helped the web committee I chair to flatten our structure to create incredible efficiency and agility. Rather than all web communications flowing through a chapter member or committee (and creating a bottleneck) we empowered everyone in the committees to go directly to Kathleen with new posts and suggestions. The committees were given guidelines and Kathleen is a final line of examination before posting. If a request from committee may be questionable, she will then reach out to me and/or the board before completing the request. This streamlined method to get accurate information posted rapidly would only be possible with someone like Kathleen. I can’t say enough about Kathleen. If its long past time for you to consider upgrading your chapter’s site, I implore you to contact her CLICK HERE. The Sacramento Valley Chapter is more than happy to share our technology and layout structure for use in your own site. The calendar in particular is a tremendous resource that Kathleen has developed for IFMA chapters. Besides that, Kathleen is a sweetheart. She is that rare balance of discipline and execution with creativity and warmth. Kathleen, from all of us on the web committee and the rest of the chapter, we thank you for your guidance and ongoing assistance with making our website so successful. Webmaster Kathleen Smith Wulfwerks 1516 Lombard Street, #4 San Francisco, CA 94123 Phone: (415) 673-7775 Fax: (415) 651-9744 Email: kathleen@wulfwerks.com I was able to snag some video of our Chapter President, Christian Flanders, accepting the award last night at the awards gala. I will have it up next week (needs compression). We had a great time before heading over the Anderson Audio Visual after party at Margaritaville (more on that in my next blog entry). From Orlando, Wayne Whitzell – Corporate Care National Director of Sustainability and Chapter VP