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What Has ARMA International Been Up To In Education?
By Doug Allen, CRM, CDIA+ | January 14, 2008
As a member of the ARMA Board, I’m often asked about what “ARMA is doing”. Hopefully, for those who land on this site, some of what I’m summarizing here will help answer that question, in so far as education is concerned. I’ll deal with additional areas of ARMA International activity in subsequent postings. Hopefully, those who read this will also come to believe that ARMA International may not be in the business of deluging its members with press releases, but that it is fully engaged in pursuing its objectives.
- Most important to serving Records and Information Management as a profession, ARMA released its competencies document at the October ARMA Conference. The Association’s Education Development Committee is engaged in developing a self-assessment, so that all of us can determine where we are with respect to those competencies. Importantly, next year’s ARMA Conference sessions will focus on the various areas of competence required of R.I.M. professionals and will provide information on which level of competence is addressed by each session. ARMA International Education Sessions will be traceable to specific competencies, and we hope that regions and chapters will begin to use the competencies to allow members to address their specific educational needs. You can learn more about the competencies at: http://www.arma.org/news/enewsletters/index.cfm?ID=2157
- With regard to next year’s Conference in Las Vegas, the Program Committee is working hard to solidify sessions for the October 20 – 23 Conference. For those of us who have attended in recent years, we have noted a constant level of improvement in the value of the educational sessions, the quality of the speakers (including keynote speakers), and the increased participation of vendors. It’s not yet time to publicize the conference, but you can learn more at: http://www.arma.org/conference/2008/index.cfm
- More immediately, ARMA has an E-Discovery Conference, entitled “E-Discovery & Beyond” scheduled for March 31 and April 1, 2008. This conference has been designed to provide real value to participants and to focus on what executives, managers and professionals need to know. Notably, this is NOT designed to be a thinly veiled pitch for software purchases.
- For those unable to travel, there’s a key Web Seminar that will be held on February 12th on the topic of automated classification systems. The focus of this session is again on the “meat” of what Records and Information Managers need to know about such systems. Information about the Web Seminar can be found on the ARMA International web site at: http://www.arma.org/learningcenter/webseminars/index.cfm?EventID=WSAUTO-CLASSIFICATION
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