New Member Orientation & Training

This module will provide new members with an arsenal of electronic tools that facilitate your participation at any place, at any time. These tools prepare you for meetings, keep you informed, provide technical contacts, and ultimately enable your input to the consensus process.

One way our staff can welcome you into ASTM is to "show you around" the website. The PowerPoint below will walk you through these online tools to assist you from preparing for meetings, to voting on standards, to contacting colleagues. If you have any questions about New Member Orientation, please contact Brynn Murphy.

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Thursday, May 21 - 1:30 pm ET

Wednesday, June 24 - 11 am ET

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Balloting & Handling Negative Votes

This session will inform members on how to effectively move documents through the ASTM balloting process, from initiating a subcommittee ballot through main committee and Society review. A review of the role of COS (Committee on Standards) is included. In addition, learn to get positive results from negative votes! Special focus on the procedural handling of negative votes throughout the balloting process. If you have any questions about Balloting and Handling Negative votes, please contact Robert Morgan.

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Tuesday, June 2 — 2 pm ET

Wednesday, August 19 - 2 pm ET

Wednesday, October 28 - 2 pm ET

Wednesday, November 18 - 2 pm ET

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Online Negative Vote Resolution Training

This session enables easy, accurate, and timely negative vote resolution for officers and technical contacts. The ONR feature provides for the input of resolution to negatives through the 'Ballot Negatives and Comments' section of the My Tools box. Upon submission of the resolutions, they will be posted for review and approval by Staff, and will remain viewable for 6 months after the item is resolved. This module is a tutorial that steps members through the ONR process. It also addresses the preparation of meeting agendas, demonstrating how to construct agendas that effectively address negatives and their resolution. While we encourage use of this online ability, members will continue to have the option to submit the Report of Action taken on A Main/Subcommittee Ballot Negative Vote form, and communicate directly with Staff Managers as needed. if you have any questions about Online Negative Vote Resolution, please contact Scott Orthey.

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Thursday, June 11 — 2 pm ET

Thursday, October 15 - 2 pm ET

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WebEx Training

This session provides members the opportunity to host WebEx meetings or web-based conference calls. These WebEx or virtual meetings combine teleconference capability with real-time document sharing through the web. These WebEx meetings may be used by ASTM Committees for task group meetings to develop draft revisions and new standards, officer/executive subcommittee meetings, training sessions and presentations, strategic planning meetings, etc.

The PowerPoint will give you details on how the WebEx system works and assist in preparing you to host your own WebEx meeting. If you have have any questions about WebEx Training, please contact Jeff Adkins.

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Wednesday, June 3 — 2 pm ET

Tuesday, October 6 - 2 pm ET

Tuesday, December 1 - 2 pm ET

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Work Item Collaboration Area Training

This session provides training on the Work Item Collaboration Area. This exciting tool allows the technical contact the opportunity to initiate a collaborative authoring space for the work item task group.

This session will showcase the administrative tools that allow the technical contact to update target dates and customize other timeline features as well as post new drafts, remove outdated comments, call virtual meetings, and invite new members. If you have any questions about Work Item Collaboration Areas, please contact Scott Orthey.

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Thursday, June 4 - 2 pm ET

Wednesday, July 15 - 2 pm ET

Thursday, October 8 - 2 pm ET

Thursday, December 17 - 2 pm ET

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Roster Maintenance Training

This training module assists officers in classifying new members, granting official voting status, and maintaining balance on your committee and subcommittee rosters. This is a quick, online training session that covers the numerous functions of the web-based Roster Maintenance tool. This session will also cover accessing new membership applications, as well as creating Membership Reports for your upcoming meeting. If you have any questions about Roster Maintenance, please contact Joe Koury at Joe Koury.

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Friday, May 29 — 2 pm ET

Tuesday, November 3 - 2 pm ET

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Developing and Revising an ASTM Standard

This editorial training module will follow both new and revised standards to publication. The module will cover the key roles of your editor and the standard's technical contact in the writing, revising, and balloting of your standard until it is approved and published, as well as review ASTM's tools that help with the process. Included in the module will be a brief review of work item registration and the three stages of balloting. If you have any questions about this training module, please contact Emilie Olcese at Emilie Olcese.

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Tuesday, June 9 — 2 pm ET

Tuesday, July 14 — 2 pm ET

Wednesday, October 7 - 2 pm ET

Thursday, November 5 - 2 pm ET

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Additional Information

2008 Officers' Training Workshop Module

The Officers' Training Workshop is a free, biennial event open to all Committee Officers, Subcommittee chairmen and those interested in learning more about ASTM. This event offers Committee leadership the opportunity to attend a series of training modules presented by staff describing various aspects of ASTM and the tools available to help you and you committees maximize the effectiveness of you participation in the ASTM process.

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Electronic Balloting

ASTM International introduced an electronic balloting process in 2001 to enable its members and customers to better meet their standardization objectives. This module focuses on the mechanics of the process and highlight recent enhancements that were engineered to provide access to a greater amount of information while reducing the time required vote on-line. Specific areas covered are gaining access to the ballot, downloading individual and collective ballot items, submitting negatives and comments, accessing a ballot after successful vote submission, and other technical information.

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Identifying and Accelerating the Development of New Standards

ASTM International has developed several tools and techniques for efficiently developing an initial draft standard and quickly moving it through the ASTM balloting process. During this module, you will not only learn how new standards ideas are introduced, drafted and publicized, but you will also receive helpful information on ASTM's electronic tools and time-tested techniques for accelerating the development of a new draft standard.

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Strategic Planning and New Activity Development

ASTM International committees are designed to reflect the breadth of the industries they represent, with all stakeholder groups present. Due to the inherent complexity of many industries, it is imperative that committees retain focus in regard to their overall mission – strategic planning is a tool that can greatly assist a committee in accomplishing this goal. A comprehensive Strategic Planning philosophy reinforces a committee's strengths, maximizes potential resources.

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ASTM Online

This module is designed to provide information about the vast array of tools on the ASTM website that facilitates worldwide participation in the ASTM standard development process. The module will provide information on balloting, online negative ballot resolution, registering work items, submitting ballot items, collaboration spaces, roster maintenance, and other website enhancements.

Wednesday, November 4 - 2 pm ET

Wednesday, December 2 - 2 pm ET

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