Here at the home office we are as busy as bees getting ready for the conference in July.  One of the things we’re doing is creating a staff directory to help you put names with faces when you get to Langkawi. There are a lot of us now and we’re all going to need a little help.

As we’ve been pulling details together, one thing has become very obvious: some of you have clearly not updated your file photo for quite awhile (don’t ask us to explain how we know this…)

So the point of this note is to encourage everyone to send in a current photo. Remember, this is what people will use to identify you at the conference. Scenic shots featuring you as a small dot in the photo are discouraged. Also, no Elvis costumes or gorilla suits please (you know who you are.)

We’ve put together a rough draft of the directory for you to download so you can see what we have on file for you now. Be prepared for some errors–this is a work in progress. There are three things we need you to check:

• Is there a picture that features you (and your family, if applicable)? Is it current?
• Is the information with the picture correct and satisfactory?
• Is there anyone on your ministry team that we missed? Any guests that you know are coming to the conference that we should add?

If you’re sending in a new picture, here are some guidelines:

• Send the biggest JPEG version that you have. We’ve got plenty of hard drive space.
• If you’ve got more than one person to represent, try to find a picture where all the faces are relatively close together. In the middle is good. Empty space around the edges of the picture is also good. It allows us to crop things different ways if we need to.

We’re trying to make our deadlines, so please submit your updates in the next two weeks, which means we need everything by May 10, 2010. Photos and text updates should be sent to diane.jones@crmleaders.org. Oh, and if you’re fine with things the way they are, please let us know that too.

Ready? Here’s the link to download the rough draft of the directory:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1070246/wwc_directory_draft1.pdf

Thanks,
Peter Schrock
CRM Creative Services

P.S. for non-staff: If you are one of our guests at the conference, let me first say “Welcome!” We’re really glad you’re coming. Second, we’d like you to be pictured in our directory too, so consider yourself included in this email request. Send us a current picture (following the guidelines above), your name and the city, state, and country you call home. We’ll add you to the nifty little conference book that we’re cooking up. Thanks and we’ll see you in July!