Evergreen Outreach Committee Meeting February 1, 2023 4 p.m. Eastern, 1 p.m. Pacific

Attending: Rogan Hamby, Stephanie Leary, Ron Gagnon, Ruth Frasur, Debbie Luchenbill, Kathryn Nesbit, Andrea Buntz Neiman, Jennifer Weston (minutes)

Press releases (Ron)
  * Nothing new to report since last press release in December
  * No new content needed to schedule at this time

Social Media (Kathryn/Rogan)
  * Promoting Community Survey -- Rogan has been promoting Survey and will send additional reminders
  * Kathryn will send survey-specific tweets and Facebook posts for promotion
  * Kathryn will continue to highlight video content to boost visibility
  * Question to Conference Committee about social media plan; we can provide credentials to conference planning team
  * ACTION: Debbie/Ruth will discuss with conference committee

Annual Report
  * [[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x2VLCIbzzSMCxtM0b9DwNDJ7cB9wn8gk6qVGl-V5iPU/edit?usp=sharing|Task Assignments]]
  * Send Content to Rogan 
  * Seeking input on new people in community & new libraries joining Evergreen
  * Layout is forthcoming

Community Spotlight (Andrea, Ruth) - form

Threadless
  * Board voted in favor of this to approve
  * Rogan will work with Galen to get online shop up and running
  * Debbie bring merch to conference? Suggestion to bring to conference as give-aways with option for people to donate online; Rogan will take suggestion to the Board.

Follow-up Community Survey -
There will be another survey to include the following topics: (we can add to the list with additional ideas)
  * other
  * self check
  * collection analysis (collectionhq, libraryiq)
  * patron engagement/messaging (orange boy, patron point)
  * discovery layer (vufind, biblio, aspen, eds)
  * reservation management (envisionware, libki)
  * print management (envisionware, … another)
  * content management system (libguides, subjects plus)
  * ill (clio, fulfillment, SHAREit)
  * ERM (coral) 
  * eCard Sign-Up
  * Dashboarding
  * Readers Advisory (Novelist)
  * Content enrichment

Website Improvement Project
  * Stephanie will review to make suggestions
  * Discussion on path forward
  * Discussion about considering professional hosting service and/or moving to a non-WP host
  * We will put this back on the regular agenda & perhaps invite Chris Sharp to a future meeting to discuss next steps
  * Stephanie was given logins to both the current site & the test site

Meeting adjourned at 4:58pm ET