MIGRATION OF NEWSLETTER TO 21^ST CENTURY

The Executive Committee has recently completed a review of the Chapter’s financial history and one fact stands out; the Chapter can no longer continue to afford to provide a newsletter under the current method of production. After much discussion, it was agreed that Chapter would begin the migration of the newsletter from a publication on paper to a publication on the SFBA Web site (www.sfasis.org). In this month’s newsletter, you will notice that some articles are not published and refer the reader to the web site for access to the information. By June, the goal is to have all the articles on the web site. The Chapter will continue to send out a printed notice regarding the speaker and workshop information, time, date, and location for next monthly meeting. However, the long-term goal is to email this information to the membership or possibly do a global fax.

At the web site, there is an online form that allows the members to provide their email address to the Chapter for the purpose of meeting notification. Please take a moment and fill in this information so that we can more efficiently keep the membership informed on chapter meetings and events.

To accomplish this we have been working with our webmaster, Steve Duell of A-FIRST Website Designs to provide changes, enhancements, and improvements to the web site. The biggest change is that we are no longer going to restrict the members section. This will now be available to anyone who has a connection to the Internet. Other changes include having ASIS National list the SFBA web site as a link on the ASIS National web page (www.asisonline.org).   A second link has also been placed on a special ASIS National web page for Chapter web sites that offer an online Calendar of Events.

Our web site will also be offering our vendors, suppliers, member companies and others the opportunity to place a link at our web site. There will be an annual fee for maintaining this link. Any advertiser who has paid for their 1999 newsletter advertisement will not have this fee for 1999. All other advertisers will pay a prorated fee for the remainder of the year.

The Officers are excited about this change. We welcome your feedback and comments on how to continue to utilize the Chapter Web site to its best advantage to provide you, the member, with quality information and service.