President's Message
Hello Readers,
Every year the Board has an annual retreat. This year the retreat was held on October 13th in Oakland, California. The retreat is nothing more than a long Board meeting where the Board and BAAMA members get together and plan the following year’s initiatives. Initiatives that came out of the 2009 retreat include the new web site, online membership management, and the annual educational meeting calendar. I want to spend a little time highlighting the 2010 – 2011 initiatives.
DIVERSIFIED VENUES
- The Board hopes to hold two educational meetings in San Francisco at the Microsoft building at 835 Market Street. If you recall, BAAMA held a meeting there on portal technology in July 2010. The feedback on the venue was very positive; it has plenty of room, a great internet connection and is near BART.
- We plan on holding three meetings at our normal spot at MTC.
- Incidentally, every year there is talk about looking for a venue in
- the South Bay. If any of you has a venue in mind, please email
- me at president@BAAMA.org.
INCREASED CONTENT ON THE BAAMA WEB SITE
You will soon see additional sections added to the BAAMA.org web site including a blog, BAAMA news, and community news. Furthermore, current content will go through an update and clean-up process. With time the Board hopes to identify content owners for many different sections of the site.
EDUCATIONAL MEETING RECORDINGS
The Board first began recording educational meetings in 2008; the goal being to record every meeting. The recordings were edited and then posted in the “podcasts” section of the home page. With time this became a logistical challenge. Eventually the effort to record the meetings stopped. In 2011 the Board hopes to reignite this effort and ideally get every educational meeting posted on the web site.
Spatially Yours,
Jeff Hobbs
2010-11 BAAMA President
Past President's Messages:
Malcolm Adkins (2005-2007 President)
Phil Beilin (2004-2005 President)
Jeff Kapellas (2003-2004 President)
George White (2002-2003 President)
Lysee Moyaert (2001-2002 President)
Bruce Joffe (1999-2001 President)