1. Advertising Local Society Events on IOM3 Website Sarah Boad Membership Development Manager

2. Spread the News!! Advertise your events in IOM3 magazines; on the website; Twitter; Facebook If you don’t advertise your events no-one will come!! Grant!! Important that event managers put their events on the website – no-one else can. Don’t want empty regional pages with no events displayed

3. Current Micro-Sites South West & Wales Polymer Group London Materials Society Sheffield Metallurgical and Engineering Association Materials Society of Cumbria East Midlands Materials Society West of England Metals and Materials Association London and South East Packaging Society Western Institute of Mining and Metallurgy South Wales Materials Association Newport and District Materials Society Leeds Bradford Materials and Engineering Society

4. Societies with an Event Manager West Surrey Materials Society (Matthew Griffiths and Kate Lucas) MinSouth (Gavin Bowyer) Cleveland Institution of Engineers (Tony Kirk) ICTa West Mids (Mark Gooderidge) ICTa Notts & Derby (Dave Willett) Manchester Polymer Group (Christopher Williams, Gareth Davies) North East Polymer Association (Richard Thompson) Scottish Association of Metals (John Wilcox) Oxford Materials Society (Martin Wall) Cambridge & Anglian Materials Society (Geoff Hale) Wales Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (Tim McGurk) Ebbw Vale Historical &Metallurgical Society (Brian Baker) Scottish Plastics and Rubber Group (Charles Geddes) Midland Institute of Mining Engineers (Charles Rhodes) South East Plastics and Rubber Group (Marion Ingle) Irish North Materials Group (Maria Kerr) Telford Polymer Association (Colin Chilles) Merseyside Packaging Society

5. Adding an Event Very easy! Takes a few minutes per event You can personalise it to fit your local society Email alerts – encourage your members to register (if IOM3 members) – keep them up to date. If you update your event another email alert goes out

6. Adding an Event (2) Once you have been emailed by IOM3 web services to confirm that your site account has been enabled to create events, please follow these instructions. Links open in a new window/tab 1) Go to www.iom3.org/login and log in to the site (if you have not already done so). 2) Go to www.iom3.org/node/add/event 3) Fill in the various fields with the details of your event. Tips on what to put in specific fields are given below. Fields marked * are mandatory. Try to enter as much information as you can, as not only will this be more helpful for the user, but the more 'keywords' you get onto the event form, the higher the chance will be of your event being picked up by search engines. Note however that there are fields for links to other websites, so if your event already appears in full elsewhere on the internet, you can simply link to it rather than reproducing all the information on the IOM3 site. 4) When you've completed the form click 'submit' at the bottom of the page. You will then be taken to an UNPUBLISHED page displaying your event as it will look to other users after it has been moderated and published. You are recommended to bookmark/favourite this page in your browser for easy access later. If you wish to change something, you can edit the event by clicking the 'edit' tab below the event title, making your change and resubmitting the form. 5) When you have finished editing your event please notify by email one of the following IOM3 staff according to the type of event you have set up: IOM3 local society event - efi.fragkou@iom3.org

7. Style Guide Please use IOM3 Not IMMM, not IoM3, not InstIMMM!! NB quals are MIMMM, FIMMM etc

8. Help and Advice Contact Richard Cooper, Efi, Sarah. Training done online now – very easy! PS Look at the cost of stamps from the end of April!