It is so important to not only run excellent professional meetings, short courses and publish excellent publications and newsletters like this, but also tell everyone about them! Publicity ensures that the most benefit is derived from all the opportunities that we create.
Now, more than ever, we need not only good technology as a society, but excellent and timely information as professionals to remain vital and effective in our jobs.
It has been the job of the communications committee to provide some of the tools to help all the NPSS volunteers to better serve their communities. The materials for the coming two years are, at the time of writing, at the printers. This year the brochure has been updated and new leaflets have been designed and printed. In addition, we have printed new posters, both of the size to go on a notice board and also one twice the size to get more attention where the space is available. Please pick one up at a conference or ask me to send you one or two if you have somewhere to put them up.
The images of the posters are on the web site so that you can, if you wish, download them and print them locally.
For conferences we have a booth to ship to the meeting consisting of banners to go behind the information and recruiting table but as these are relatively heavy, they are expensive to ship outside North America and customs issues have to be addressed to avoid duty and taxes on items only temporally imported for use at the conference. To address this, we had similar equipment bought in Europe for use there and the EEC ensures that customs issues will be minimal.
With more and more conferences in Asian countries (one each in China and Japan this year) another solution had to be found as the European solution would not solve the customs issues there as there is no Asian equivalent of the EEC. We have had the banner images printed on good-quality paper so that they can be shipped and hung on the wall behind the information and recruiting table or some other place close by with no need for them to be returned.
If you can use brochures, leaflets, posters or other informational material at your meetings, place of work or other events, please contact me in time for us to ship what you need to you.
Peter Clout, chair of the Communications Committee, Vista Control Systems, Inc., 2101 Trinity Sq., Suite Q, Los Alamos, NM 87544-4103; Phone: +1 505-662-2484; Fax: 505-662-3956; E-mail: clout@vista-control.com.
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