GAZeL Board of Directors Meeting
Tuesday, September 25th

Audio Only Board Meeting on Tuesday, September 25th – Noon.
Audio Bridge Number: 1.888.847.8686 7256108#

Attending: Bobbie, Casey, Alex, Richard, Maggie, Kelley, Sher, Doug, Steve and Buck

Meeting called to order at 12:04

Alex thanked all our sponsors

Conference Update – Bobbie/ Steve
Bobbie reported on tomorrow’s Decision Theater at ASU. 22 people have registered.
Discussion of Power Points led into Kelley's marketing Update. Also had discussion of
using Elluminate software for people attending online. The Decision Theater does have a conference phone available. Thanks to Joel for his efforts to set up audio and computers.

Marketing Activity Update – Kelley
Kelley talked about the new generic brochure he is developing with RJ from Intra-Media. It is available at GAZeL website. Maggie would like it lighter. Steve went over the brochure comments he had already sent. Kelly wants to make it as broad and friendly as possible. He will try to get 20-30 generic brochures printed up for tomorrow.

Bobbie brought up that we have to have an annual election. Bylaws also say no one should serve more than 2 terms. Casey got nominated as Chairman of the Nominating Committee. Sher volunteered to serve again also.
Casey is to call 2 more people to serve on the committee.

Richard nominated Bobbie to start a committee for the CEO Breakfast in 2008. Maggie seconded the motion and it was passed.

Portal Development Update
Kelly asked for help entering names into CRM and got 6 volunteers.
Kelly made call for graphic designer/copywriter. He got several suggestions about where to look including AZIPA.org and Refresh Phoenix. He would like to develop some volunteers to use as we are about go to another level with the website. Steve and Kelley will coordinate.

Conference Update – Steve He has been having trouble nailing down keynote speakers. If the people he has talked to can't commit soon, he will look forgo on to others. Alex and others mentioned that we should include a discussion about Second Life.

Steve wasn't sure that fit with the intent of the summit which was mainly policy issues. There was more discussion of the seriousness importance of Second Life and whether it fits with the conference theme. The conference committee will pursue this to see if it fits or can be made to fit. Then there was discussion about using Second Life as a tool for presentations at the conference but it was decided that might leave out less sophisticated users.
Steve will also pursue getting the Board of Regents to partner with us for the conference.

Steve will call a Meeting for the Conference committee.

Research Committee - Maggie asked Bobbie about the survey that ADE is doing for K-12. Bobbie will give it to Maggie tomorrow. Once we review the survey, Maggie will call the next research community meeting.

Membership Dues Intro Strategy Update - Sheri
Sheri wasn't present but there is information on the website at: www.gazel.org/membership. Membership registration capabilities are available and ready for use.

Alex discussed the Golf Tournament: Nov 30th at Legacy Cost for 40+ players greens fees and food $90+ under 40 players $104. Maggie will work on the event page.

The Board would like to offer special thanks to Richard Brincefield for his continued support.

Meeting adjourned 1:17