May/The Kentucky Derby/ #Winning/ and elections

May/The Kentucky Derby/ #Winning/ and elections
What do these things have in common?  They're relevant to our very active chapter.

May!
Our next program is May 17-Best Practices: Making and Implementing International Travel Plans for Your Executive/Executive Team : ** note that the location has changed to the SHRM offices -1800 Duke Street.  Our peers at SHRM have graciously offered to help out with our crunch for meeting space.  See you there.  Here's the link for info and registration.

The Kentucky Derby.. okay..so this is about a horse race.. and really? what does this have to do with our chapter events?  Well, in a s-t-r-e-t-c-h of a tale... (Get it, Tail?. Horse?) Our program year is literally headed towards the finish line, we're about 3/4 of the way around the track.. and it's a speedy trip!

#Winning.. ahh..That beat to death joke  related to Charlie Sheen.  Well, actually that has several relevant meanings for our chapter.
 1.  We talked about digital media and business etiquette last evening at our Administrative Professionals Day program in the program presented by Ian Gainor, Division Director, OfficeTeam.
  2. We talked about Twitter which uses #  to basically act as a flag, or as it's called a hashtag, to pull key words from the TwitterVerse.  So if you see #IAAP on a tweet, then search for #IAAP-- it should pull all the Tweets that have #IAAP in them!
3. Winners!  We had lots of winners for fun door prizes.  We won because the food was pretty delicious (Thanks, ZPizza) as was our cake.

4. AND we had winners today..because today was our chocolate tasting reception at Artfully Gifts and Chocolate - located on John Carlyle-just behind the SHRM offices and off Eisenhower Avenue.  We tasted spicy chipotle chocolate, white chocolate with toffee bits,  a honey chipotle chocolate and a cinnamon chocolate.  All wonderful.. along with some  very tasty hot chocolate drinks.  Really.. I can't believe how anyone could pass on free chocolate.. Frankly.. I'm a little concerned about you..  :)  Some folks even got in some shopping buying up gifts for friends and maybe one or two pieces of jewelry for themselves.

5. Winners? Could we be?  Carla Thorpe, our fantastic newsletter editor and webmaster has submitted our entries to the VA-WV Division to be considered for Division Media Awards.  We'll find out the result at the June Division meeting in Fredericksburg.. Hope to see you there.

And Elections? 

Well, hopefully you 've elected to review the Bylaws and voted.  Having the foundation of Bylaws ensures that no one member is president for life (Thank goodness) and that we have a written governance on how our chapter is lead.  Very important.   

Once we announce the vote outcome on the Bylaws- we can send out the notice for officer elections and the requirements for running.. hold our elections and close out our very, uber productive chapter year.

Oh,.. one more thing..re:  elections.. Jan Szych, CPS/CAP and I have been hard at work visiting area companies to share the strength of our chapter and benefits of IAAP membership to their administrative team and leaders.  We've gained three new members in the last two weeks.  And we're anticipating gaining more members prior to the end of the program year. Let's hope they elect to join OTAC.. because we think we are a great chapter offering program content relevant to conquering some of the daily challenges of the admin world.  And that, my friends.. is really #Winning.  (smile).

Hope you had a superb Administrative Professionals Week®.