February 2010
Dawn M. Boothe, DVM, PhD
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(Please do not take additional copies of notes at the beginning of the
seminar. If you need an extra copy of the notes and are unable to print from the
website, please take a copy as you leave the seminar.)
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Seminar Handout Survey More than 10 years ago, the DC Academy made the investment to develop and maintain an Academy website. The expectations for the website included better communication for our membership. We also began posting the seminar handouts on the website for members to print/review before the seminar and to make them available for those members that could not attend a seminar. The notes/newsletters have also been made available by our email listserv. The hope was that with these two avenues, we would be able to reduce our printing costs, currently over $20,000, to offset the costs of maintaining the website and listserv. As it turns out, our printing costs have risen dramatically over this span. Currently, we provide the seminar handouts digitally as Word documents that allow our members to reformat and save them conveniently. We have now reached a point, for fiscal and "green" reasons, that we need to enter the 21st century and only provide notes digitally. Many continuing education conferences now provide handouts via cd, for an extra fee, and do not even offer printed material. Our goal is to complete the transition to digital notes/newsletters in our next program year. The DC Academy Board has been discussing the best way to transition to digital delivery of notes and newsletters. We plan on providing only the first two newsletters of the 2010-2011 program year in printed format along with printed newsletter mailings that contain ce statements. Options for digital notes are still being discussed. One option is not to make any changes in the delivery of the notes and simply raise dues an appropriate amount for all members, approximately $40, along with the normal (approx. $10 per year) dues increase due to inflation. Another option is to provide printed notes only to those members that pay for them in advance (approximately $50 for the year). A third option is to eliminate printed notes entirely and hope that the savings will help avoid significant dues increases in the future. Enclosed in the print newsletter mailing, please find/complete/return the survey card to help the Board make the best possible decision on this transition. Please make any comments on the back of the survey card. This is your opportunity to investigate the notes/newsletter on our website (click on Member Services to access notes), and register to receive the notes and newsletter in advance of the seminar via the Yahoo listserv (see newsletter item on how to register for seminar handouts by email). Thank you, in advance, for your input. Katy J. Nelson President 
(A Printed Survey Was Included with the Printed Newsletter)
Please return the completed form in the Suggestion Box on the sign-in sheet table at our February 4 seminar or, by mail, to DCAVM, P.O. Box 710477, Herndon, VA 20171
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Dr. Sharon M. Dial, University of Arizona, will present on "Clinical Pathology" on March 4.
