Welcome to the new NEAWI Website

To All New England AWI Chapter Members:


Our New NEAWI Chapter Website Is Open for Business!



Recent visitors to www.neawi.org will have noticed the site's new look and layout, intended to provide tangible benefits for Chapter members, and the public at large. Some of the goals of this site re-design were to increase the usefulness and timeliness of the site, for both members and the public at large, provide more opportunities for member participation in the chapter, and to show the industry the advantages of membership in NEAWI. This new site design is the work of our Website Committee head Peter Kaufman, our Membership Committee head Dave Kenyon, the web site designer, Veronica Ward, our webmaster, Charles McElwain, and comments by other NEAWI members.

When fully operational, the site will provide these essential functions:

• Member Profiles: A place where chapter members can declare their commitment to quality work, and Design Professionals and other millwork consumers can find capable sources for Architectural Woodwork. Each Active member profile page contains a mini gallery, where six images of work can be displayed. The combined mini galleries will form the site's central photo gallery, of which select images will randomly rotate to the site's home page.


• Chapter News and Event Postings: A central source for information about chapter & member events, and other news, both as event postings and as a newsletter "blog", viewable by both the chapter members and the public at large.


• Member's Only Bulletin Board: An online forum for members to share information and dialogue concerning the chapter, the industry, and the world in general. (This bulletin board will also provide an area for classified ads of items of interest to chapter members.)

The site is a work in progress, and as yet some of its functions have not been fully activated. Each member will soon receive an e-mail invitation from the Member's Only Bulletin Board (via Google) to sign up for a password admitting them to the member's only section of the site. (Officers and board members will receive an additional and separate e-mail inviting them to sign up for a password allowing them to post items to the Chapter News "blog".). Please follow the instruction in the email to accept this invitation, so that you will be able to sign on to, read, and post to, this bulletin board.

Members, both active and associate, are encouraged to submit updates to their profile pages, and active members are encouraged to submit pictures for the site gallery. The member profile provides a link to "update your profile" with sections for both information updates and picture gallery submission. (Further details on the formats of the gallery picture submissions will be posted on the Chapter News "blog".)

Please take the time to explore the site, and take advantage of its possibilities. And by all means send in your feedback. We want and expect the site to evolve over time, and you can help us send it in useful directions.


Thank you,
John Ianiri, President
Peter Kaufman, Website Committee
Dave Kenyon, Membership Committee
Tye Waller, Executive Director
Charles McElwain, Webmaster