Welcome NAI Region 10 Members

We are very excited to launch this new website for our region. Take a tour through the site to find information on special events like our upcoming spring workshop, new interpretive jobs, regional news and connections to the national office publications and social media. Do you follow NAI Region 10 on social media like Facebook and Twitter? If not, look on the right hand side navigation bar on each page and click on the Twitter and Facebook icons. (The NAI Region 10 Twitter feed is an amazing service. Check out the number of sites that are retweeted for your reading pleasure.)

Another new feature is the ability to comment on articles or items posted on the website. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and leave a message.

What a wonderful resource we have here! Let’s take advantage of it. We’d like to have a regular blog on the site discussing topics such as new interpretive tools, social media, impacts of funding cuts on your programs and other items of interest to the membership. Do you like to write? Do you have an opinion (stupid question eh?)? Let us know and we’d love to include space for you to sound off.

Special thanks to Roni Hathaway, Region 10 Newsletter Editor and Webmaster, and her crew, Troy Bouchard and Clayton Hanson , for the effort in making this possible. The work of your region only gets done with the work of volunteers. Come join us!

Chuck Lennox
NAI Region 10 Director

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Save the Date!

Region 10 Spring Workshop: Take Time to Share the Best Practices in Interpretation! 

Region 10’s Spring Workshop is set for 18 April 2012. So far, it will be located in Portland, Oregon; Tacoma, Washington, and Portage, Alaska, (and possibly elsewhere depending on technology and interest) and will follow the model of previous workshops with a business meeting and keynote address broadcast to the other sites via the internet, and individual site sessions held at each workshop location.

If you are interested in connecting to the workshop from another location and have the technical requirements, let us know because we can set up connections in other sites as well. This year we will use Windows Live Meeting which will allow us to reach more participants. All that is required is high speed internet access and a computer! If you aren’t familiar with this program, learn more at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/live-meeting-help/.

Jessica Moore from NW Trek is the Workshop Chair. Local site organizers will be Pat Barry for the Portland area Troy Bouchard for the Tacoma area and Lezlie Murray at the Begich Boggs Visitor center in Alaska. You can be a site organizer for your area!

Chuck Lennox, incoming Regional Director, will preside over the business meeting and will introduce the keynote speaker.

The workshop theme, “Take time to share the best practices in interpretation!” says it all. Discover new practices and program ideas…. what’s working for your peers and what might work for you! We are looking for presenters to share their best practices. Look for guidelines for presenters on this page.

For the good of the interpretive profession keep April 18th open to share your ideas, learn new ideas, and network with fellow professionals.

For more information please contact Jessica Moore at jessica.moore@nwtrek.org or Pat Barry at jpatbarry@hotmail.com


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