NAAEE members that are chairing a commission, committee or council (C3) need to go through a short learning curve on two items:

1. What it means to be a chair, the duties of a C3 chair.
   

2. The system and staff resources available to you to communicate and build web content for your commission, committe or council.

Duties of a C3 Chair

Your leadership responsibilites as a chair include:

• Build an active commission, committee or council -- NAAEE thrives on the active involvement of our membership and the primary structure for this involvement is through the C3 structure. Strong commissions and committees make for a strong NAAEE.

• Provide Communications Leadership -- The chair provides and promotes the communication between the membership involved in their commission, committee, or council.  NAAEE provides a listserv and web pages to enhance communication, show work products, and build community.

Resources for Chairs

There are three resources all chairs should be aware of:

1. Your commission, committee or council has a listserv.  The listservs with the names of the chairs and the C3 name are listed below [July 2006].  NAAEE staff can help you understand how to use this listserv to communicate with your C3. [Pending August 2006].
   
2. Manage who is in your commission, committee, or council.  You can add and remove people from your C3 and you can learn about managing listserv messages here.
   
3. Web content and groupware tools -- NAAEE puts standard content about commissions, committees and councils.  This includes things like a description of the C3 [pending Aug 2006], the current chair, and a list of NAAEE members that belong currently belong to the C3 [August 2006]. NAAEE can alsopost additional web content or file downloads to support the work of the community.  Lastly, we have access to a groupware environment called "Team Spaces" as part of our standard content management infrastructure and certain very active groups may have interest in exploring this tool.