Chair Responsibilities
- Create Doodle Polls and Schedule Meetings
- Correspond with current and potential panelists
- Work with Vice Chair and Appointments committee to select new members based on volunteer form applications
Vice Chair Responsibilities
- Work with Chair and Appointments committee to select new members based on volunteer form applications
- Shadow/Observe Chair for entire year
Committee Member Responsibilities and Tasks
- Find a place for Panelist Meetup the Saturday evening before Program
- Monitor Social Media throughout year
- Panelist Selection (Entire Committee) – See submission guidelines
- Take Minutes during meeting
- Work with Web Coordinating Committee to update TTT Webpage
Assignment of Committee Tasks on Day of Program
- Be at Top Tech Trends program 1/2 an hour early
- wrangles the speakers to make sure their comfortable and ready to go
- monitor the twitter feed for questions
- take notes during program for summary to be place on TTT webpage after the Program
- We are not streaming, but there will be an automatic audio recording
- Take a count of the audience
Tools and Platforms
- Adobe Connect (Ask Mark Beatty to set up for TTT Committee Meetings
- Google Docs – at the end of term transfer ownership of any Google Docs over to LITA Google Docs (contact Mark Beatty)
Timeline
July
- Committee: Meeting
- Chair: Submit Committee Report and post on ALA Connect from Annual
- Committee: Announce call for panelists for next Midwinter Program with a deadline of Sept 30th
August
- Committee: Contact those who have been nominated by someone else and invite them to apply for panel
- Committee: Send out reminder to LITA and ALA channels about open call for panelist nominations
September
- (Registration and Housing opens for ALA Midwinter)
- Committee: Contact those who have been nominated by someone else and invite them to apply for panel
- Chair: Submit Committee Report and post on ALA Connect
- Committee: Book/Reserve a venue (bar or restaurant) for Saturday panelist meetup during Midwinter
- September 30th deadline for ALA Midwinter Panelists.
October
- Committee Meeting: Decide on panelists nominations for ALA Midwinter
November
- Committee: Announce call for panelists for ALA Annual program with a deadline of Jan 31st
- Chair/Vice Chair: Meet with ALA MidWinter moderator/panelist to discuss program and have them prepare trends/discussion points
- Committee: Get bios and headshots from ALA Midwinter panelists
- Website: Work with WCC to update website with MidWinter panelists headshot and bios
December
- Chair: Submit Committee Report and post on ALA Connect
January
- Committee: Contact those who have been nominated by someone else and invite them to apply for panel
- Committee: Send reminder out to LITA channels about ALA Annual panelist nominations
- Chair/Vice Chair: Last Online meeting for Midwinter Panelists
- Saturday at Midwinter: Committee Meeting – Discuss responsibilities during program
- Saturday Evening at Midwinter: Panelist Meetup at a restaurant or bar
- Sunday at MidWinter: TTT Program
- Website: Work with WCC Committee to update with MW Summary of trends
- January 31st deadline for ALA Midwinter Panelists.
February
- (Registration and Housing opens for ALA Annual)
- Committee Meeting: Decide on panelists nominations for ALA Annual
- Committee: Book/Reserve a venue (bar or restaurant) for Saturday panelist meetup during ALA Annual
- Chair: Submit Committee Report and post on ALA Connect
March
- Chair/Vice Chair: Meet with ALA Annual moderator/panelists to discuss program
- Committee: Get bios and headshots from ALA Annual panelists
- Website: Work with WCC to update website with ALA Annual panelists headshot and bios
April
- Chair: Submit Vice Chair volunteer from existing committee members to nomination committee
May
- Chair: Submit Committee Report and post on ALA Connect
June
- Last Online meeting for Annual Panelists
- Saturday at ALA Annual: Committee Meeting – Discuss responsibilities during program
- Saturday Evening at ALA Annual: Panelist Meetup at a restaurant or bar
- Sunday at ALA Annual: TTT Program
- Committee: Announce Call for Panelists for next Annual Program with a deadline of September 30th
- Website: Work with WCC committee to update with summary of Annual program trends