I'm Ventura County Genealogical Society's FGS delegate. 3:00 p.m. on Tuesday, September 6th is when onsite registration opened. This is where pre-registered folks picked up their tote bag filled with things and receive an envelope with tickets, nametag, etc. In that tote bag was the full syllabus on a flash drive.
Wednesday, I attended the Focus on Societies sessions at the Prairie Capital Convention Center in downtown Springfield, IL. Each session was one hour with half-hour between sessions.
The Plenary Session speaker was David E. Rencher, AG, CG, FIGRS, FUGA. His speech was How Will Our Society Survive? Do We Alter, Mutate, Modify, Shift or Switch? Wish I could take his PowerPoint slides back to my society, it was powerful!
I attended the following sessions:
Delegate 101
21st Century Marketing Techniques for Genealogist/Genealogical Societies
FGS Luncheon, speaker: Ransom H. Love.
Speech: Community Connection: Why Record Custodians Need to Be Working on a Global Basis
I volunteered to be the Room Monitor to this session:
Publicity for Society Events: Simply Supercharged
Brainstorming Session: Social Media
Brainstorming Session: Marketing Your Society
All sessions I chose were informative and awesome. I met other bloggers and society delegates from across the country. Wow, what a day. Can't wait until the Exhibit Hall opens today!
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