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ARMA Taps Partners for Awareness & Success
By Doug Allen, CRM, CDIA+ | February 4, 2008
I’m excited about what ARMA International has been doing to work with existing partners and to recruit additional partners to work with the association! There are many groups with which ARMA has either marketing or true partnering arrangements, and they are already bearing fruit as the Association promotes both our profession and our Association. Hopefully, those efforts will continue to bear fruit, as we seek to:
- Expand the exposure that other groups have to Records and Information Management
- Expand the reach and appeal of ARMA Membership
- Expand the resources of our members for continuing, life-long education, and
- Continue ARMA International’s critical work in establishing standards that serve all professionals
In one key area, that of legal professionals, ARMA has been working for several years with the Sedona Conference, as that group establishes best practices to be followed by Corporate Counsel. Our ARMA staff has also participated in the 2007 and plans to participate in the 2008 International Legal Technology (ILTA) Conference and Exposition. On a related note, ARMA Headquarters staff has been working closely with Inside Counsel magazine on RIM related articles, and with the IT Compliance Institute on Records and Information Management Technology issues. Clearly, our Headquarters team has been busy promoting our profession in the areas where it is needed.
Additional efforts are underway with professional associations in the area of Information Technology, where those in our organizations’ IT professionals work. Those ground breaking efforts are designed to improve the ease with which Records and Information Managers will be able to work with internal IT professionals.
While the above represents some more recent activity, ARMA has continued to pursue active relationships with the International Congress of Archivists, the Society of American Archivists, and its existing relationship with the MER (Managing Electronic Records) Conference of Cohasset Associates. Those relationships, as well as those that ARMA has established with the Institute of Certified Records Managers and with the ARMA International Education Foundation should help us in our efforts to expand the reach of our profession.
There is much more work currently underway and much work left to be done. However, I am thrilled to see the efforts that have been made to date, and look forward to the benefits that should accrue to all Records and Information managers over time.
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