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How To: Conduct a Member Promotion
When developing a new work item or forming a new committee/subcommittee, it can be helpful to connect with stakeholders who may have an interest in the topic. The previous installment of this column highlighted several ways to promote new activities… more
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How to Elect Committee Officers
2019 is a year for electing committee officers: chairman, vice chairman/chairmen, membership secretary, and recording secretary.  Subcommittee officers are not part of this election process as they are appointed separately in accordance with an… more
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ASTM Standards and Voting
You can vote. And you should. As an ASTM International member you are entitled — as stated in the Regulations Governing ASTM Technical Committees — to vote on all main and subcommittee ballots where you hold membership. These are your “voting… more
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The Robert’s Rules Tool
Fairness. Productivity. Efficiency. These are universal goals for meeting outcomes in offices and conference rooms around the world. One tried-and-true tool to ensure fairness, productivity, and efficiency used by ASTM International technical… more
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Your First Meeting ... Plus, Regs Corner on the Basics of Voting
Attending your first ASTM International meeting, or thinking about it? Welcome! To get important general information about meetings, which are open to all interested parties, check the information at www.astm.org/MEETINGS, both for committee weeks (… more
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Collaboration Areas Enhanced
You may have noticed that your online collaboration areas got an upgrade. The new ASTM International Collaboration Areas are more useful and intuitive in supporting your standards development work. The collaboration areas now reside on ASTM… more
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Exploring Ideas for New Standards
Like questions that should be asked, ideas for standards should be explored. Ideas for new standards come from “aha” moments — maybe as you unwind with colleagues after a meeting (the origin of more than one useful ASTM International standard) — or… more
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Products, Standards, and Certification
If the scope of your standard specification — existing or proposed — covers a product, consider certification for it. Certification, a kind of conformity assessment, seeks to ensure that any given product meets the standard’s performance… more
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Metals & Materials, Safety, Environment, Transportation, Chemicals, Energy, Medical, Quality, Consumer Products, Construction

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Getting Positive Results from Negative Votes
Your approach to submitting or resolving negative votes is a critical step in the process of shaping standards and is the single most important element of the ASTM International standards development process. Without negative votes and their proper… more
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About Voting
As an ASTM International member, your participation is key to the ASTM standards development process, which includes voting to express your endorsement, disapproval and opinion via ballots. It’s easy enough to cast your vote on a standards action… more
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What’s the Word?
ASTM’s Blue Book, Form and Style for ASTM Standards states that all technical standards should include a terminology section. The requirement advises you to “keep it simple” and use a dictionary definition when possible, but putting a small glossary… more
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