{"id":127,"date":"2014-12-07T23:45:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T04:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/JLD\/wp\/2014\/12\/07\/ata-2014-chicago-wrap-up-and-planning-for-miami\/"},"modified":"2014-12-07T23:45:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T04:45:00","slug":"ata-2014-chicago-wrap-up-and-planning-for-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/JLD\/2014\/12\/07\/ata-2014-chicago-wrap-up-and-planning-for-miami\/","title":{"rendered":"ATA 2014: Chicago wrap up and planning for Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"color: #3f3f3f; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\">Dear&nbsp;<span style=\"background-color: #ffffcc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;\">JLD<\/span>,<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #3f3f3f; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #3f3f3f; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\">You may not have noticed it, but the month of November just blew past. One minute many of us were at the ATA Annual Conference, and the next it was Thanksgiving. At least it felt that way. Happy December! I hope the weather is good wherever you are.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #3f3f3f; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #3f3f3f; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\">I wanted to post this for two reasons: to call for feedback on the Chicago conference and to call for volunteers\/ideas for next year&#8217;s conference in Miami (especially from those who weren&#8217;t in Chicago.)<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #3f3f3f; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #3f3f3f; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\">I thought Chicago was a big success. The Annual Meeting powerpoint presentation and meeting minutes should be going up on the&nbsp;<span style=\"background-color: #ffffcc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;\">JLD<\/span>Times Blog shortly. Volunteers wrote summaries for most of the&nbsp;<span style=\"background-color: #ffffcc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;\">JLD<\/span>&nbsp;sessions and even for a few others. Please check them out when you get a chance. If you have any feedback on last month&#8217;s conference, please contact Nadine or&nbsp;<span style=\"background-color: #ffffcc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;\">me<\/span>. If you had a session proposal or an idea to make things better but didn&#8217;t get a chance to share it, please do!<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #3f3f3f; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #3f3f3f; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\">Which leads to the second reason for my email. Although not even a month has passed since the conference, the planning process for next year is already beginning. The deadline for Distinguished Speaker proposals is in February, and the deadline for regular session proposals is in March. The first Planning Committee meeting will be held soon.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #3f3f3f; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;\"><span style=\"color: #3f3f3f; font-family: &quot;helvetica neue&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , , &quot;roboto&quot;;\">For those who&nbsp;couldn&#8217;t&nbsp;attend the 2014 conference, this is your chance to let us know what sort of sessions and presentations you would be interesting in attending. Who would you like to hear speak? What subjects would you like to learn about? Would you be interested in giving a presentation? Do you know someone who would be a good speaker? Please let us know. Any and all suggestions are appreciated.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #3f3f3f; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #3f3f3f; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\">If you would be willing to volunteer, please contact us. We are always looking for&nbsp;<span style=\"background-color: #ffffcc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;\">JLD<\/span>&nbsp;members to make a presentation or post an article to the blog. You could also get involved in the Planning, Editorial or Entertainment committees. Feel free to contact Nadine or myself with any questions.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #3f3f3f; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #3f3f3f; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\">Best,<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #3f3f3f; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\">-Jim Patrick<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #3f3f3f; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"><span style=\"background-color: #ffffcc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;\">JLD<\/span>&nbsp;Administrator<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear&nbsp;JLD, You may not have noticed it, but the month of November just blew past. One minute many of us were at the ATA Annual Conference, and the next it was Thanksgiving. At least it felt that way. Happy December! I hope the weather is good wherever you are. I wanted to post this for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,32,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/JLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/JLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/JLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/JLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/JLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/JLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/JLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/JLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/JLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}