Agenda

1. Board meeting 7/19 planning (Alan, Sarah, Danny)

2. Board reconstitution, nominations, and elections update

3. Strategic plan update (Sarah)

4. Seal update (Alan)

5. Executive director (John)

6. Forum platform (John, others)

7. Mendeley update (Gonzalo)

Board Meeting 7/19 (Alan)

Conversational tone with materials sent out prior to meeting.

• Seal
• Strategic plan
• Journal
• Elections and board reconstitution
• Membership numbers
• Budget numbers

Sarah to join by 11:45am so don’t start with strategic plan.

Board reconstitution:

Carol Pekham stepping off

Opens slot for 1 to be elected by founders

David Lansky to rotate off

Paul Wallace to rotate off – Alan to speak with him

After elections Sue and Gonzalo to rotate off unless re-elected as Members-at-Large

Indu to stay on

e-Patient Dave to stay on

Michael Millenson to stay on

Charlie and Terry as ex-officio will stay on

ideally. 4 board members rotate each year

• 1 elected by board (currently Millenson, but he is serving 3-year term)
• 1 elected by founders (not formalized, but de facto is e-Patient Dave)
• 2 are members-at-large (currently Sue and Gonzalo)

President-elect, secretary, treasurer, 2 members-at-large need to be elected.

Ask for nominations/stand for members-at-large (2)

Suggestions from members for office nominations

Strategic plan comments–

send to Sarah ASAP

Board to ratify next week

Seal Update (Alan)

Tweet chat last night for members >200 people

Elise Singer helping to manage project

Oct 7 is general release– Health 2.0 in SF

QA process TBD

Executive Director (John)

E-comm needs to nail down details of position

• FT/PT? (he recommends PT)
• Position description
• Need experience with fundraising

SPM Revenue

John will put together financial report and job description and share it with e-comm.

Forum Platform (John)

Group reviewed forum platforms (>12)

We failed to identify needs up front

Need platform to be easy to use

Question about fate of Listserv–maybe can leave it up and allow people to drift over?

They identified some suggestions: Google Groups, Yahoo Groups, Ning

Google Groups may be favored

Need administrator for this

Also moderator(s), but could be same as administrator

Motion carries: Google Groups.

John to inform and recruit admin/moderator

John’s Jobs (need to be separated):

• Treasurer
• Membership coordinator, customer support
• Website support

John happy to consider running again for treasurer, but only if we can get someone to take on membership responsibilities (website management not a big task right now).

Connected Health Panel (Sarah)

Need everyone to respond to Sarah about topic for 10/2012 Connected Health Symposium Panel!

Research Repository (Gonzalo)

Need working group to review in detail – Gonzalo to recruit