The Foreign Service Journal, March 2011

M A R C H 2 0 1 1 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 37 ANNUAL REPORT American Foreign Service Association 2010 Back row (left to right): Bill Farrand, Al Pessin, Keith Curtis, Bob Houdek, Stephen Morrison, Mary Ellen Gilroy, Andrew Winter, Michael Haughey, Lynn Nelson, Ako Cromwell. Front row (left to right): Les Hickman, Henry Schmick, Molly Williamson, Joyce Namde, Francisco Zamora, Janice Bay, Mary Glantz, Susan Johnson, Sharon White, Daniel Hirsch, Carleton Bulkin. (Not pictured: Tex Harris, Raymond Maxwell, Bruce Matthews.) AFSA on the Web V isitor traffic to the AFSA Web site (www. afsa.org) continues to grow; in 2010 we had close to 1.6 million page views overall. That is a tremendous number for an organization of AFSA’s size and speaks well of the quality of in- formation we have made available to our members. Themost popular sections continue to be the Foreign Serv- ice Journal , high school essay contest, scholarships, the Tax Guide, our ambassador project, Inside a U.S. Embassy and our member guidance section. We are also very active when it comes to social networking. Our Facebook page has new postings almost every day and now has close to 2,200 fans. We have also started tweeting reg- ularly on Twitter (www.twitter.com/afsatweets) , and we hope you will start following us there. In addition, we started our own channel on YouTube and hope to utilize that outlet more in the future (www.youtube.com/afsatube ). We are especially excited about the brand new afsa.orgWeb site, which will have launched shortly before you read this blurb. We have added more helpful information, made the whole site easier to read and navigate, and improved its over- all look and feel. We hope you like it as much as we do. The most beneficial change to visitors and members is the new ability to become a member and renew your membership online. You can also make donations, update your profile in- formation, and subscribe to the Foreign Service Journal — with just the click of a button. Our original site launched in 1999 and didn’t change much over the years. We are very pleased to be able to bring afsa.org into the 21st century! —Ásgeir Sigfússon, Marketing/Outreach Manager Back row (left to right): Chairman Ted Wilkinson, Joseph Bruns. Middle row (left to right): Jim Seevers, Kate Leonard, Lynn Roche. Front row (left to right): George Jones, Julie Gianelloni Connor, Rachel Schneller, Mary Glantz, Kelly Adams- Smith. (Not pictured: Stephen Buck.) Amy McKeever The Foreign Service Journal Editorial Board AFSA Board of Governors Patrick Bradley