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March 2007 Chapter of the Month
Puget Sound ChapterFounded in 1954, ASTD-Puget Sound serves a wide audience across the Puget Sound basin with members connecting with our programs from a 40-mile radius around Seattle. Like many coastal chapters, our biggest membership and organizational challenge is geographical – the area is divided by Lake Washington, a shipping canal, and Puget Sound itself, making it difficult for members in Redmond, Bremerton, Olympia or even Seattle to attend a chapter event in any one location.
One way we inspired our colleagues in far-flung locales to converge on downtown Seattle was to host a “can’t miss” event in a fantastic piece of architecture. The Future of Training Conference 2006 (FOTC) was just such an event. Held in the much-lauded Seattle Central Library on September 26th, the day-long FOTC drew together experts in not only web conferencing and web development but also podcasting, video production, the latest in SCORM standards, and the nuts and bolts of multi-projector presentations. By all accounts, it was a fabulous showcase of the region's world-class training and development community.
Concurrently, we staged a highly successful month-long membership drive the highlight of which was a chapter board of directors’ phone drive organized by our VP of Membership to contact members who had let their memberships lapse, ask them why they left, and bring them back into the fold. A discount of $25 off the regular $75 dues netted us 22 new members, an invaluable amount of feedback, and innumerable ideas for how to keep our chapter at the forefront of the industry.
The conference drew more than 150 attendees. This emboldening result added fuel to the fire of an already superlative schedule of monthly event speakers, professional development networking events, unparalleled volunteer involvement, priceless administrative support during a major bookkeeping overhaul, and the inauguration of the South Sound Geographic Interest Group.
Over the course of our 53-year history, our chapter has experimented with a plethora of approaches to serving the membership’s needs, but of these, our efforts in 2006 must surely rank among the most successful. Not only did we hit our attendance goals for the year, but our bank balance swelled almost five-fold from $2,500 to $12,000; our web site underwent a fantastic transformation into the informational and connective hub of our chapter; and we took a big leap forward with the inaugural web conferencing of a PDN event.
In January, the board deemed 2006 the year of Momentum, and we certainly feel we lived up to this theme and accomplished much more.
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