Institute News
Those members that live or work in the North East area of England may recall that Neil Wilds and his committee ran a very successful ICorr NE Branch with technical evenings and social events for several years. Sadly, the branch has not been active over the last three years and ICorr are keen to reinvigorate activity in the NE of England. We are seeking members to become involved in forming a new committee for the NE Branch, and would request anybody that is interested to contact either myself or David Mobbs on the emails below. The intent is to keep time involvement to a minimum as we know everyone is very busy.
If you feel you could spare an hour or so every few months then please consider getting involved – you will find it rewarding. Email: president@icorr.org, david.mobbs@c-i-m.co.uk
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The branch will again be holding face to face meeting at the Lancaster Hall Hotel, starting with a joint meeting with the London Materials Society (LMS) in October. As the virtual technical meetings held over the past 18 months allowed a wider participation than just from the London area, the branch are planning to also stream this meeting, so those from other parts of the UK, or abroad will be able to join in. Dates and details of speakers, can be found on the diary page and on the ICorr website.
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As we continue developing The Institute of Corrosion’s online presence both via the website and our increasingly popular social media channels our attention has turned to the user experience people enjoy (or don’t enjoy) when they interact with our organisation online.
With traffic increasing across all platforms, it is now important that when people do visit the website, they can find what they want quickly and easily. It is also important that our members’ experience is an enhanced one and that there are benefits in terms of resources and functionality. Our overall aim is to create a ‘best in class’ website for both the public and our members with an array of new features aimed at creating a better user experience.
The starting point for this part of the project is to find out what those new features need to be, and you will have hopefully taken part in the recent members survey to air your views on what you feel is important and what would be beneficial. This feedback will be vital in steering our thinking in future developments, so thank you to everyone who took part. We will be assessing the responses over the coming weeks to develop an overall development plan. If you missed the opportunity to take part in the members survey but would like to voice an opinion, please email admin@icorr.org and we will ensure your comments are taken on board.
The overall digital strategy continues to deliver some encouraging results, monthly visitor numbers to the website continue to be strong with over 2000 visitors a month using the website.
The Institute’s social media channels continue to go from strength to strength with over 6400 followers on Linkedin. Our social media posts have been enhanced by a series of video snippets promoting video presentations at branch events and the CED Day, which are now available on the website. Video content is an area which we plan to develop, so if you have and conferences or events which you think may be suitable, let us know and we can discuss setting up a campaign.
As members you can help by liking, sharing and engaging with the content that we put onto social media. We are always interested in potential new content so If there is anything that you would like to see more of, please let us know via the usual channels or a direct message on social media.
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Industry News
ICorr is excited to announce that BP has been become the first organisation to sign up to the Institute’s newest grade of benefit-laden membership. ICorr’s Corporate Membership programme offers membership for all corporate employees across all of ICorr’s grades from Affiliate to Fellow.
The benefits of Corporate Membership are:
• Any number of employees can be included in the programme, which is costed based on the number of employees involved.
• Free admission for one employee to the annual Corrosion Science Symposium.
• A 10% discount for employees on all conferences and symposia.
• A free table for 10 people at the prestigious ICorr London Branch Christmas Luncheon, that in previous years welcomed guest speakers including former politician Ann Widdecombe and cricket legend Henry Blofeld.
• Free advertising in Corrosion Management magazine and on the Institute of Corrosion website.
• Access to ICorr’s career progression and competence programme.
• Guaranteed places on the extremely popular and always oversubscribed Young Engineer Programme, which takes place every two years.
“We are delighted to be the first Corporate Member of ICorr and have signed up ten of our UK based employees. We value our relationship with ICorr and the benefits this membership will bring us” – Dr Chris Williams, BP Senior Advisor for Corrosion Engineering.
ICorr are extremely grateful to BP for being the first to sign up to our Corporate Membership programme which is a watershed moment for this initiative. and which has been in planning for some time.
If you feel Corporate Membership is right for your company, please contact us at, admin@icorr.org
