1. The New Computer Society Membership Experience
Eric Berkowitz
IEEE Computer Society
Director of Membership

2. Why The Change?
Provides members with a choice and lets them determine which benefits are useful to their career development.
Allows members to see the primary benefits more clearly.
Helps to reduce cost of membership.
Give us more information on which benefits members find useful.
Attract IEEE members who have an interest in computing but aren’t members.
Benefit segmentation by audience.

4. 2017 Membership Options Four professional membership options
Preferred Plus
Training and Development
Research
Basic
And
One student option

5. Student Membership IEEE + Computer Society North America = US $40
Outside NA = US $35
Full member benefits
Includes Full Access to Computer Society Digital Library

6. Basic Membership
Provides the foundational resources you need as an IT professional to stay informed about current industry trends, including the latest research and professional practices from around the globe. Benefits include:
Subscription to Computer magazine (12 issues per year)
Subscription to ComputingEdge (12 issues per year)
Print North America
Electronic Elsewhere
Unlimited access to computer.org 
myCS
Conference discounts
Member pricing to the complete Computer Society Digital Library (CSDL)
Members-only webinars
Deep member discounts on all programs, products and services
Computing Now Newsletter
RFID Virtual Journal

7. Training and Development
The choice if you’re looking to learn new skills, refresh existing skills and ultimately ensure you have the skillset to do your job more effectively while advancing your career. All basic benefits plus…..
Skillsoft Complete: On demand training. Helping you to stay current, do your job, advance your career. Over 100 IT and business certifications with online mentoring.
Videos, Books, Practice Exams, Mentoring, Challenge Series
Safari Books Online – 650 technical titles and videos
Three free Computer Society Learning Webinars: interactive monthly webinars on technical issues you deal with daily

8. Videos, Books, Practice Exams, Mentoring, Challenge Series
Skillsoft Complete
On demand training. Helping you to stay current, do your job, advance your career. Over 100 IT and business certifications with online mentoring.
For 2017 more than 30,000 additional assets added.
Videos, Books, Practice Exams, Mentoring, Challenge Series
Business
1,000+ courses
10,000+ books
140+ Business Impacts and 100+ Challenge Series
Mentoring in PM, Six Sigma IT
2,000+ IT Skills and courses
14,000+ Books
Online mentoring for 100+ certifications
Test Prep Exams
Desktop
460+ Digital Skills courses
890+ Books
Online Mentoring for Digital Skills certification
In the upgraded version of Skillsoft members will now have full access to the IT, Business, and Desktop Libraries. In other words, if Skillsoft has it, you’ll have access to it. The revamped offerings will nearly quadruple the number of resources available to Computer Society members to nearly 60,000 pieces of content.
Skillchoice IT
Over 100 IT Certifications with online mentoring including
(ISC)2
BCS Professional Certifications
10+ Cisco Certifications including Routing and Switching, Security, Network Professional, Data Center, and Cloud
8 CompTIA Certifications including Linux+, Network+, Security+, and A+
EC-Council
Linux Professional Institute
Over 40 Microsoft Certifications including MCTS, MCITP, MCTS, MCSA, and MCSD
16 Oracle Certifications including SQL, 12c, and Java Se 8
PRINCE2
Red Hat
ScrumMaster
Skillchoice Desktop
Certifications on the Microsoft Office Suite – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, and SharePoint with online mentoring
Skillchoice Business
Business Impact Series: Video vignettes addressing workplace challenges and solutions.
Challenge Series: Simulations enabling problem solving via rich content.
Business Certifications with online mentoring including
ASQ
Human Resource Certification Institute
International Institute of Business analysis
ITIL
Project Management
Society for Human Resource Management
All of these online resources can and will enhance your knowledge and skillset in a range of important areas and help you in prepare for industry standard certifications. Also, all of the resources in Skillsoft can be used as a giant encyclopedia of reference-ware to help you in the moment.

9. Research Choice of any two Computer Society signature magazines
The best choice if you’re a technology professional in industry or academia who wants to stay up-to-date in our ever-changing technology landscape and identify solutions to specific technical challenges.
All basic benefits plus …
Choice of any two Computer Society signature magazines
30 tokens to the myComputer App
12 article downloads from the Computer Society Digital Library (CSDL) 

10. Signature Magazines Software Magazine Security & Privacy
IT Professional
Internet Computing Magazine
Micro Magazine
Computing in Science and Engineering
Cloud Computing Magazine
Computer Graphics and Applications Magazine
Intelligent Systems Magazine
Annals of History of Computing
MultiMedia Magazine

11. myComputer Mobile App
Access all your current Computer Society magazine subscriptions
Download full issues as eBooks for subscribed titles
Create custom eBooks of the articles you choose
30 tokens (articles) included with membership

12. Videos, Books, Practice Exams, Mentoring, Challenge Series
Preferred Plus
The widest access to all Computer Society benefits. Preferred Plus benefits include:
All basic membership benefits plus …
Your choice of any two Computer Society signature magazines
Skillsoft Complete: On demand training. Helping you to stay current, do your job, advance your career. Over 100 IT and business certifications with online mentoring.
Videos, Books, Practice Exams, Mentoring, Challenge Series
Safari Books Online – 650 technical titles and videos
Three free Computer Society Learning Webinars: interactive monthly webinars on technical issues you deal with daily
12 article downloads from the Computer Society Digital Library (CSDL)
30 tokens to MyComputer mobile app

13. 2017 Membership Options Preferred Plus $60 $126 Research $55 $115
Cost
With IEEE With Out
Preferred Plus $ $126
Research $ $115
Training $ $115 and Development
Basic $ $99
Student $40 / $35

16. Complimentary Subscriptions page

17. Beginning 1 January 2017 digital subscriptions no longer fulfilled through Qmags.
Past issues will be archived on Qmags. You will need to save issues.
New issues will be archived on myCS.
myCS is:
Easily Accessible – desktop, eReader, laptop, tablet smartphone
Customizable to your Preferences – adjust layout, color, text size
Conveniently Archived – all CS journal and magazine subscriptions saved in myCS
mycs.computer.org

18. Eric Berkowitz e.berkowitz@computer.org