MembershipIleane SmithDan Smith

Agenda

1. Membership Promotion

2. Roster Maintenance

3. Questions

Participating Memberships continue to show steady

growth

Participating Membership Growth

24,051

24,611 24,

722

2008 2009 2010

“Maximizing Stakeholder participation to reflect the market”

This will add to high quality standards and market buy-in.

Benefits of Membership Promotion

• Increases technical expertise in a certain area

• Helps maintain a balance of interests

• Support development of new activity

• Increases international participation

• Introduce new stakeholders to the ASTM process

• Promote awareness of ASTM’s mission

Determine Focus of Campaign

• New Work Items

• Task Group Activity

• Significant revision to an existing standard

• Input from Staff Managers and Committee Officers

Audience for Distribution • Mailing List Rental

• List Swaps with Trade Associations

• Conference Attendees

• TPT Attendees

• Meeting Visitors

• Personal Invitations

Formats for Promotional Material

• Custom Landing Page

• Invitation Letter/Flyer

• Fact Sheet

• Ecard

Additional Strategies

• Invite a Colleague

• Meeting Visitors

• MoU Partner Ads

• Student Members

• One-on-One Engagement

Team Resources

• Staff Manager

• Member Promotion Manager

• Technical Committee Contacts

• Marketing Department

• Art Department

Technology• The most effective delivery takes

place if efforts are in both formats:−Hard copy

• More convenient for some companies

− Electronic • Easy and convenient• Instant delivery

Introduction to Roster Maintenance

• Used by membership secretaries and subcommittee chairs

• Used for assigning classification and voting privileges to new members and members that change employment

• Used for maintaining balance as the roster changes

• Used for creating membership reports for meetings

Roster Maintenance

View Pending Members

Sample New Member Application Notice

View Pending Members

Notification to New Member

Pull-down Menu of Membership Report Options

Roster by Individual

Producer Wait List

Balance Report

Membership Report Provides Information within Date Ranges

Excel Roster to Sort Information

Christensen, Scott T The Gallegos Corporation USER YES 04/01/2008Trimino, Humberto The Plycem Company GEN INT YES 10/01/2001Starks, G Michael Titan America PRODUCER YES 10/21/2005Fallon, Sean Tramex GEN INT YES 05/04/2006Menendez, Alicia Tree Island Industries PRODUCER YES 10/03/2007Solodkin, Sofya Tree Island Industries Ltd PRODUCER NO REDUNDANT INTEREST 03/28/2002Good, Larry E Trinity Erd GEN INT YES 05/06/2004Alvarez, Dennis A USG Corporation PRODUCER NO REDUNDANT INTEREST 08/09/2001Shipp, Paul USG Corporation PRODUCER YES 07/30/2003Mc Donald, David B USG Corporation PRODUCER NO REDUNDANT INTEREST 02/29/2008

Meeting Attendance Roster

Process for Handling New Member Applications

Member Application

Classification and Voting Status

• If a Classified Committee – review of company and major product or service provided− Would the member be considered a

producer, user, consumer (only on some committees), or a general interest according to the scope of the committee?

• Review of roster− Is there a member from this same voting

interest already on the committee with a vote?

− Subsidiaries

Balance of Interest

Producer

User &GeneralInterest

ASTM

Classified Technical Committees are balanced. Classified Technical Committees are balanced. No excess influence by any interest groupNo excess influence by any interest group

Producer Vote Wait Lists

• Created when the number of potential voting producers is greater than the number of voting user and general interest members combined.

• Producers are removed from the wait list and given votes when−New user and general interest

members are added as voting members

−Other producer members resign

Methods: Approving Applications

• Executive Subcommittee meetings

• Ballot of Executive Subcommittee

• Authority granted by Executive Subcommittee to Membership Secretary to approve applications between meetings−Action is subsequently reviewed

Website Tools• Membership

Orientation

• Invitation to a Colleague

• Membership Types & Benefits

• Renewing via Website

• Value of Membership Video

Information Tools for Members

Questions

Ileane Smith

ismith@astm.org

Dan Smith

dsmith@astm.org