Letter from the President - December 2014
Hello from Ireland!
I have the pleasure of writing this letter to you from the incredible country of Ireland. I just attended the European Revit Technology Conference for 2014 in Dublin. I was there as a speaker, but also had the opportunity to represent AUGI while I was there.
I was joined by two other AUGI board members, Desirée Mackey and Shaun Bryant. Shaun Bryant, located in the UK, was AUGI’s official representative at the event and did a great job of promoting AUGI while he was there. Desirée, from the US, was attending as a speaker but she also took the opportunity to promote AUGI to the attendees.
There was good representation of AUGI by the attendees themselves. When I queried folks attending sessions about how many were AUGI members, usually 25 to 40 percent raised their hands. The vast majority of those folks were either from the US or the UK.
This got me thinking.
Are there ways to promote AUGI to people who live outside the US, Canada, and the UK that we may be missing? The board welcomes your ideas so please feel free to provide those ideas to us at this link.
One way to promote AUGI to international people is to have AUGI board members attend more international events. There is one obvious disadvantage to that: the cost in time and money to send a board member to an international event. AUGI’s Board of Directors is committed to making sure that AUGI’s limited resources are spent in the best interests of all of AUGI’s members. AUGI was able to have a strong presence at #RTCEUR only because of the close relationship between AUGI and RTC, which significantly reduced costs to AUGI.
Autodesk is now conducting Autodesk University Extensions in several countries around the globe, which can help AUGI reach a passionate group of folks who might not otherwise know of AUGI but who are looking for answers to their questions. Still, I don’t feel that is enough.
AUGI needs to rely on members located in countries other than the US, Canada, and the UK to get the word out to folks in their own countries. If you are interested in doing more to promote AUGI in your own country, please contact myself or Michael Smith so that we can see what you can do to increase the number of AUGI members in your own country.
R. Robert Bell
AUGI President
