Last month we told you about the renewed FedEx/Kinko's MCA-I Member discount good for 20% off copying (b&w and color), and 5% off laminating, binding, etc. Well, this month we have a team of members going over the benefits with a fine tooth comb to review, confirm and add. Check the website for the most current list of Member Benefits. Have a benefit or discount you'd like to see or offer to members? Contact the Benefits Team.
Start smiling and dialing! You could win prizes!
Sign up a member today!
From now until April 30, 2009 for every new member you refer who joins MCA-I as a member in good standing, you will be registered to win terrific prizes.
Every successful referral has a chance to win prizes including a $250 Gift Certificate to Best Buy, a flat panel TV and a full copy of Adobe CS4 Production Premium Software.
Grab your database and start dialing! See someone at the next meeting that has been on the fence about joining? Don't have a chapter in your area, but could achieve critical mass if there were other members in your area? Yes! You know what to do! That's the spirit.
Leaders, look for downloadable flyers in the next LeaderLinks.
MCA-I Has Heart ... and Pluck!!!
by Lee Vogel
President MCA-I
Past International President, Todd O’Neill (San Antonio) sent me the picture to the right to remind me that we have survived tough times before. This was taken at a leader meeting in Los Angeles in 2001.
Imagine the "Mothership" has crashed. It is obsolete and beyond repair. We either spin off the baby ships to become independent colonies or we salvage parts and build a new one.
This is how we started the Leader’s Summit in New Orleans last month. In person and by GoToMeeting the majority of active MCA-I chapter leaders attended. And a lot has happened since. This was an important meeting.
Since then Lois Weiland, executive director of the Madison MCA-I chapter has been hired to cover the phones, mail, bill paying and other administrative duties. Erin Fergusen (Madison) and Donata Renfrow (Atlanta) have lined up a new phone service. Board Member, John Grozik, (Milwaukee) has set up an account with GoToMeeting to handle our Board, Leaders and Committee conference calls. President-Elect, Gary Shifflet (Detroit) and Secretary Laurie Clark (Greater Wisconsin) have moved the association checking account. Past President, Connie Terwilliger (San Diego) has made numerous updates to the website during and since the Summit meeting. President-Emeritus, Mike Brown (Milwaukee) is looking after the archives.
Just what will the future hold for MCA-I? We'll find out in October. After 40 years providing professional development, opportunities to showcase great work and connecting members around the world - the current model needs to be reviewed and is in the hands of the newly formed Long Term Governance Committee.
This committee is tasked with producing the model of the new MCA-I. Hat's off to: Russ Wojtkiewicz-Kansas City, Wade Holloway-Carolinas. Steve King-New Zealand, Rick Davis-Ohio Valley, Raegan Matthews-San Diego, John Coleman-Orange County, Peter O'Connell-At Large, Buffalo, Dustin McEntarfer-Kansas City, Sandra Olmstead-St. Louis.
Want to contribute some ideas on what MCA-I will look like in the future? Just contact any of these members. Log on and Search the Member Directory.
New Zealand Home to New Board Member Steve King
One of Steve’s goals as a Board Member of MCA-I is to focus on providing increased value and relevance to 'international' International members.
With the addition of Steve King to the MCA-I Board of Directors, monthly calls are a bit trickier to schedule – he’s in New Zealand – but well worth the effort. Steve, currently Executive Producer - Corporate Television for Screentime NZ, brings more than 20 years of producing, shooting and editing experience in the corporate communications and video production industry and a long association with MCA-I. His favorite, and still used lesson from an MCA-I conference he attended 8 years ago in Orlando was this, “The more you try and tell people in a video, the less they’ll know.”
Steve states his "goals are to work towards more e-learning opportunities for all members - including members remote from a local chapter, and more member benefits available to offshore members. Again online is easiest such as free/discounted subscription to web services and video hosting, and member-only viewing of Golden Reel winners."
Can't get to a meeting?
No meeting in your area?
A Chapter in another city having a meeting that interests you?
Then Catch a Stream
While face-to-face meetings are the way most MCA-I members get their regular dose of professional development and networking, streaming technology can connect us virtually. The New Jersey Chapter has been streaming their meetings for well over a year now. Other chapters are starting to do the same.
Check out the MCA-I Calendar for the details on three Chapter Meetings this month that will be streamed out to members and non-members.
The board voted the approval of the first new chapter of the 21st Century. Welcome MCA-I’s Newest Chapter - the Northeast Ohio Chapter is official and checks in right now with 33 members.
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