The Electronic Media (EM) Representative is appointed by the Section Chair to serve as a liaison between the Section membership and the Society’s Electronic Media Committee, and to provide information for the Society’s website. The primary role of the EM Representative is to maintain the Section’s page on the SNAME web site. The EM Representative should also solicit ideas and suggestions to improve use of electronic communications and electronic media for the benefit of the Society. The EM Representative may also download the electronic Section roster for use by the Section officers.
Maintaining the Section Page on the SNAME Website
Each Section has a reserved portion of the Society’s website for its own Section page. The EM Representative should set-up and maintain this page with up-to-date information concerning the Section. Currently there is no specific format for the Section page; however, most Sections choose to include the names and contacts for the Section officers and committee Chairs, the Section meeting schedule and announcements, and links to other related web pages such as Student Sections.
Section page updates are made over an Internet connection via FTP (file transfer protocol) using a special username and password for each Section. If the EM representative is unfamiliar with FTP or HTML (the format for the electronic files on the website), he/she should contact the Chair of the Electronic Media Committee or the Manager of Information Systems at SNAME Headquarters for further information, and to obtain the username and password for his Section.