North Carolina

 Mailing Lists.

My article in the Winter 2000 Tar Heel News had background information on types of mailing lists. One goal for the next few months is to rationalize the AAUW-NC use of mailing lists. Currently there’s a good representation of AAUW-NC members on the list aauw-list@rtpnet.org. That list has about 110 subscribers. About half of those are members/alumnae/prospects of Raleigh/Wake County and another 10 or so are members of Chapel Hill. This means that some "local" news is mixed with the information that’s targeted, say, to AAUW-NC board members. There is another list, aauwnc-tech@egroups.com that’s geared specifically to discussion of technology use in the branches, but this list has representation from only four branches: Raleigh/Wake County, Chapel Hill, Twin Rivers/New Bern and Asheville. [See the Fall 2000 THN for a description of the issues to be discussed there and the Spring 2001 for a reminder on how to subscribe.] So my next steps are:

• Ensure that we do have a good list of e-mail addresses of those in AAUW-NC who want to receive information via e-mail. Lists are being distributed to branch presidents at this meeting.
• Encourage more branches (or at least clusters) to join the aauwnc-tech list.
• Work with webmaster Janet Weber to build more tailored mailing lists (e.g. AAUW-NC Board, AAUW-NC General) so that the original intent of aauw-list@rtpnet.org (items of interest to those in the RTP area) can be reinstated.

• At the AAUW Convention in Austin, I’ll be co-chairing a Special Interest Group Session:

• I put the information on the AAUW-NC convention on the web site rtpnet.org/aauw and will be working with the program committee and the board members to make information from the convention available quickly after the convention.
• The Raleigh/Wake partnering with Women and Math Mentoring program got AAUW a mention on local TV.
• I continue to work to encourage better IT practices at AAUW – e.g. electronic distribution of membership lists and a PDF version of the 5-Star form that allows typing the information onto the form directly from the Acrobat Reader.