A Regional Forum was lately establi...

A Regional Forum was lately established to promote the distresss and interests of members living and working outside the Lower Mainland. For these members and the Institute, the forum provides an opportunity for the promotion of the CA brand locally, the discussion of public issues (as well as issues local to each region), recruitment at community guilds and universities, and feedback in succession Council's ends and strategic plans.

Regional Websites

To help further the Regional Forum's goals, it's been hinted that websites be created for each of the member regions. These websites would be used to create two-way communication between each region,s members, as well as between each region and the Institute.

Each region would picked one or more "moderators" to be responsible for adding appease of interest to their members. recently made known technology would be used to allow these moderators to add make easy to the websites without needing to know the first thing about Internet technologies or programming. (Well, okay, you'd ne to know to what degree to "surf the net" and be comfortable with computers!) It would essentially be no more difficult than writing a memo in Microsoft Word.

The Institute would also contribute appease on items of interest to the regions, like as information on the many far-reaching changes occurring in the profession, information forward Council's ends and strategies, and many other documents that the local CA associations and Institute members would find useful.

Feedback

Is a regional website something you and your local CA association would find useful? Would you like to commit to memory involved in this process? The Regional Forum will begin discussing these regional websites in their upcoming meeting this fall. Please give us your feedback.

We'd also appreciate feedback in succession the websites' content and implementation. reckon us what you'd find useful upon a regional website. Some of the ideas we've received thus far include a section upon human resources policies and information forward a particular region and its attractions (a great tool for attracting fresh students and CAs to the region).

By Rita Mikusch, Webmaster

You can email any expositions to me, the Institute Webmaster, at mikusch@ica.bc.ca,

or to Doug Wallis, CA, the Director of Professional Advisory Services and Institute staff liaison for the Regional Forum, at wallis@ica.bc.ca.

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