Newsletter
Volume 30| 2007 | Number 2
OBM Network
By Dr. Timothy D. Ludwig, Dr. David A. Wilder,
Doug Johnson, Julie Slowiak, Nicole Gravina, Dr. Charles R. Crowell, Jeanine
Stratton, & Rhiannon Fante
President’s Update
The OBM Network’s conference was again hosted by the
Florida Association for Behavior Analysis in January, 2007 in Sarasota,
Florida. This year’s program coordinator, Dr. Kathy Culig, invited a number
of prominent research and practitioner speakers for the two-day event. Included
among these were Howard Lees and Bruce Faulker from the UK, Alyce Dickinson,
Wendy Jaehnig, Heather McGee, and Doug Johnson from Western Michigan University,
Jon Bailey and Marco Tomasi (Florida State University), Dave Wilder (Florida
Institute of Technology), Jennifer Howard of CLG, Terry McSween of Quality
Safety Edge, Ryan Olson of OHSU, Lori Miller of Ardent Learning, Joe Sasson
of MedAxiom, and Allan Quiat of the Chevron Corporation among many others.
Judith Komaki provided the keynote address on OBM and Leadership. The student
poster session featured 15 research reports from universities around the
country. Then next OBM Network conference is scheduled for January 2009
in Melbourne Beach, Florida.
Internship Committee Update
After a lengthy discussion with academic members of the OBMN, development
of a formal OBM internship program by the OBMN has been delayed. Because there
are so few available internships at our consulting firms each year, the group
decided that it would be better for individual OBM academic programs to focus
on developing internships in local organizations. We may revisit this issue
in the future if additional consulting firm internships become available.
Website Update
The OBM Network Website has consistently attracted a
large number of visits during the past year. The site has averaged over
6,300 visits per month over the past year and recently surpassed the 200,000
mark for the total number of visits since the site launched (see data, below).
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The site continues to grow through the addition of free resources such as articles by the leaders in the field of OBM. During the upcoming year, multiple new initiatives are planned such as the addition of a current world news section and the online newsletter |
being revamped with an easier and more attractive interface (Newsletter designer: Doug Johnson).
Membership Update
The following graphs display the 2007 OBM Network Membership. Figure 1 displays
membership distribution for the years of 2005, 2006 and 2007 YTD. We are excited
to report that we already have 139 members.
 Figure 1. Members by Type and Year.
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Figure 2 displays new versus repeat (2006-2007) members. Currently, 45% of our members are new members. We have contacted previous members and have asked them to continue supporting the Network. |
 Figure 2. Repeat Vs. New Members..
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