June 25, 2009

Agenda proposal

-- Summer Connect process improvement and institutional learning/capture

-- Status of new class captains

-- Planning for '09 alumni engagement

-- Collaboration platform - is this wiki working? Other options?

Attendance: -- Nam -- Joe Urban -- John --

Summer Connect: We need owners of each region.

Regions include: Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, NY-Tri-State, SF Bay, Pacific Northwest.

LinkedIn sub-group function. We need to look into the process of taking advantage of this in order to mass-notify the members. Regions would be a good sub-group. Council members would be another group.

Because of the shortness of time, we send out an email to get volunteers. This goes to the council members only. LinkedIn would be the communications mechanism in the future, but we'll use an email for this message.

Timeframe for Event: End of August.

Action Required: Email Blast to Alumni Council members. Nam to send to group using Reply-All from John's last message. Message to go out by Monday morning. Nam is point-person for responses. Nam to set up a meeting with all volunteers.

Joe can assist with the Bay Area event. July is a possibility if we can get traction quickly.

Class Captains: Hold off on the request for now. We didn't ask much of them before, so we could reach out again. We should directly ask them to find a replacement. Also, the LinkedIn sub-groups might provide a forum to get volunteers. Also, use the Summer Connect event to recruit members.

The MMM_Events_Schedule has been established, but needs to be filled out.

The October onsite could include a meet and greet prospective student event at the end of the day.

Student-Alumni Spring Check-In: We should have a mid-year conf call, and local alumns face-to-face, with the students and directors. Space it far enough away from the Onsite meeting. Maybe early in the spring qtr? The only risk is that the students are involved in the Mfg Conference at that time.

Is this wiki working? More real-time editing helps everyone participate. When we have the onsite, we need to do some simple training. We still need to try Webex. Next meeting we will do so.

Sunil is now the interim Kellogg dean. He was the former MMM director. He's very pro-MMM. We should send a note. Joe will get a card started and will mail it out. Everyone's address should be emailed to Joe.