Members Present:  Randy Houk, Jay Spitulnik, Danny Sands, John Grohol, Mary Quilty, Eric Bersh, Matthew Holt, Liz Boehm, Brenda Merriweather (late)

Welcome: Danny

Approve Minutes: Vote

• Jay motions, Randy seconds.

December Board Meeting date

• Moved to January 2, 2024

Stop/Start/Continue/Modify

• Top Priorities
  • Need messaging
  • Talk about projects we are working on
  • We need our own direction first
  • Engaging with “outside world” important
• Relative work effort, funding needed
• Tangible Assets (2)
  • Randy thinks this is important
  • Liz thinks we need to leverage
  • AI possibilities
• More stories for the blog. Blogs should more closely align strongly to what Society is pursuing
• What is the future of the CLE?
• Continue with blogs
• Lawrence connection – continue
• Address CLE content more to students who are prime attendees
  • What do sponsors think about addressing primarily to students?
• Brenda suggests adding abstracts to the Journal. Danny says our publisher does not allow abstracts without full papers

 Edits to work group scopes?

• Review of work group schedules. Foundational work group met 11/28.  Each group presents at Retreat of December 16

ED Update

• CLE and Dashboard
  • October revenue includes Mitchell grant
  • PeX CLE highest revenue of the 4
• Blog 2,029; Website visitors 5,000
• NEU; PXS still worth pursuing for CLEs

Executive Session (Private)

Adjourned at  7:30 p.m. EDT.  Next meeting: January 2, 2024, 6:00 – 7:30 pm ET

Respectfully submitted,

Eric N Bersh, SPM Board Secretary