August 25, 2011

A great sample welcome email for your new members…

Hi <New Member First Name>,

Good afternoon!  I wanted to take a moment to welcome you to the ASHRAE Southern Piedmont Chapter!  It is a pleasure to have you on board, and hopefully I will have the opportunity to meet you at an upcoming meeting. Our first chapter meeting of the season is next Thursday, September 1, at Byron’s Southend, 11:30am-1pm. You should receive a newsletter with more information or you can go to our website at www.spashrae.com. 

Also, the ASHRAE annual Winter Conference is scheduled for January 21-25in Chicago.  You can see more information about this at www.ashrae.org.  We hope to see you there as well!  If you have any questions, I am your local Membership Promotion Chair. Feel free to contact me anytime and I look forward to meeting you.

Sincerely,

MP Chair name

MP Chair full contact information

Membership Promotion Chairs – work with August 24, 2011

Membership Promotion Chairs – work with your local chapter Publicity Chairs to effectively promote your program and bring in new members!

Check out this tool made by volunteer Ro August 24, 2011

Check out this tool made by volunteer Roger Jones, to help chapters manage their Membershp Promotion PAOE… http://ow.ly/d/jwd

Chapters – would you mind us removing gr August 16, 2011

Chapters – would you mind us removing grade change from the chapter change report? You only count advancements (associate to member) and student transfers (student to associate). Grade change seems to be confusing folks with PAOE, and it’s not relative to PAOE…thoughts?

Did you know ASHRAE has trained 179 youn August 10, 2011

Did you know ASHRAE has trained 179 young leaders at YEA Leadership Weekend? WOW!

2010-11 Green Ribbon Winners for Membership Promotion (chapter with highest number of web membership transactions in each region) August 5, 2011

2010-11 Green Ribbon Winners

2010-11 Blue & Red Ribbon Winners (for highest and second highest PAOE points for MP) August 5, 2011

2010-11 Blue & Red Ribbon Winners

ASHRAE Chapters…Try HootSuite.com to s August 3, 2011

ASHRAE Chapters…Try HootSuite.com to send a single message through all of your social networking applications. For example, if your chapter uses Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, you can set up a HootSuite account to send the same message at once. Try it, it works great.

Check out New Faces of Engineering Colle August 3, 2011

Check out New Faces of Engineering College Edition on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/#!/CollegeEdition?sk=info