As the 2011-2012 Chapter President, I am looking forward to serving you and will strive to represent the chapter professionally and with honor and dignity. I am excited to work with the remarkable board you have elected and know that with your help the Birmingham chapter will have no trouble Making the Leap to Remarkable. By making our chapter remarkable, each member will in turn become remarkable.

During the next year, we will be adding new benefits to your membership in the form of technical software classes in addition to our regularly scheduled monthly educational programs, tech tips in the newsletters, and limiting the amount of business conducted in the monthly meeting to allow for more time learning and networking. Reading the newsletter will be more important than ever since this is where we will disseminate the chapter information. We will strive to limit email communications to newsletter distribution unless we receive time sensitive information.

Member of Excellence criteria will be a strong focus of the board and we will do everything we can to make the professional development submission process effortless for members. We have evaluated the new member surveys and will be including their suggested programs and welcome any suggestions from other members as well. Please feel free to contact any of the board members with suggestions you may have for making our chapter more remarkable. I am looking forward to a dynamic year.

Regards,