*Posted on behalf of Elizabeth Smigielski, Recording Secretary*
The board met on Friday evening, the 2nd, for a five-hour meeting. The meeting was well attended with about 15 people present. Throughout the meeting we were joined by Allan Barclay, our Chapter webmaster, via DimDim, virtual meeting software. Allan listened to the meeting over the phone and we could see him through web streaming. Using DimDim was an experiment to test the feasibility of having a future virtual meeting. The MLA Executive Board has been successfully holding virtual meetings during the last year. Incoming Chapter President Elaine Skopelja will be scheduling a two-hour virtual board meeting in January or February as a trial. We will still have a traditional face-to-face spring meeting in 2010. The intention is, assuming the trial January/February meeting works, that we may shift from the traditional all-day face-to-face spring board meeting and instead have smaller monthly or bi-monthly virtual meetings. Many thanks to Karen Anderson, Allan Barclay, and Brian Finnegan from the Communications Committee for their work in bringing virtual meeting technology to the Chapter.