March 2010
by Carolyn K. Offutt, NCC-AIIM President
It’s March Madness Time. Escape
the remaining winter weather at our “hot” programs.
Celebrate the rites of Spring with your NCC-AIIM colleagues and
friends at two meetings in March – We have our regular monthly
luncheon meeting on Thursday, March 18, 2010, at the General Dynamics Executive
Conference Center at 1000 Wilson Blvd, Suite 810, in Rosslyn, VA,
followed by a Hot Topics Session on
Thursday, March 25, 2010,
as a Breakfast Event at the Universities at Shady Grove in
Maryland. This month
features Mark S. Patrick of the Joint Staff
of the Department of Defense speaking both March 18 and March 25
on “Wartime Content, Records, and Knowledge Management in the
Joint Staff and Combatant Commands.”
See the NCC-AIIM web site for more details at
http://www.ncaiim.org
We had a very successful training in February
with the AIIM Electronic Records Management (ERM) Practitioner
Class in the AIIM ERM Certificate Program in cooperation with ARMA
NOVA, on Wednesday, February 24, 2010.
We started the New Year with Luncheon Meeting on January 14, 2010,
as a joint meeting with the Northern Virginia Chapter of ARMA.
John Montel, Former Senior Director, General Dynamics IT,
spoke on Content and Records Management: Getting Stakeholder
Buy-in.
We had a Site Visit at the GPO on Thursday, December 10, 2009.
Our speakers included Bob Tapella, Public Printer of the
United States; Mike Wash, Chief Information Officer; and Selene
Dalecky, FDsys Program Manager for a presentation on the Future
Digital System (FDsys).
On Wednesday, November 18, 2009, we had a joint dinner meeting
with the Northern Virginia Chapter of ARMA.
Laura McCarthy of NARA spoke on “NARA Regulations in the
Code of Federal Regulations, 2009 Revisions to the Code” -- a
timely presentation, as the new regulations became effective on
November 4, 2009.
We had an excellent Site Visit on Thursday, October 15, 2009, at
Quality Associates, Inc. in Columbia MD.
We had a tour of a first-class content conversion facility,
as well as seeing technologies for production, desktop, and Multi
Function Device document and information capture.
Some of you joined us for a Breakfast Hot Topics session at
the Universities at Shady Grove on Thursday, October 22, 2009, as
a Case Study of the “Naval Inventory Control Point (NAVICP)
Tri-Services Enterprise Records Management Program for the Army,
Air Force and the US Navy, Marine Corps Systems Command.”
We had two successful September meetings,
including the kickoff luncheon meeting on September 10, 2009, on
“President Obama's March to the White House Using ECM and Web 2.0
Tools” with Garrett M. Graff, a current editor at Washingtonian
Magazine, and a talk on September 17, 2009, on “The Power of
Networking for Your Business and Career Success in ECM” by author
Sheila Savar at the NCC-AIIM reception, in conjunction with the
AIIM International Road Show.
Our committees are a wonderful opportunity for you to meet and
work with fellow information professionals to improve and enhance
your NCC-AIIM experience.
The committee work is a backbone of the success of our
Chapter. Please let me
know, if you are interested in joining one of our committees.
Our continuing thanks go to our Platinum Sponsors, General
Dynamics Information Technology, and PrivaSoft; our Gold sponsors,
Zimmerman Associates, NSI, and QAI; and our Silver sponsor, Scan
Optics. The financial
support and assistance with our programs from all our sponsors
have allowed us to better serve our members.
If your organization would like to become a sponsor to
raise the profile of your organization and further the work of the
Chapter, please contact me or one of the Executive Committee
members.
We
hold our monthly luncheon meetings at the General Dynamics
Information Technology Conference Center conveniently located at
the Rosslyn Metro.
Mark your calendar for the dates for upcoming meetings.
The Rosslyn Luncheon dates are: March 18, 2010, April 8,
2010; and May 13, 2010.
Look for additional information and directions at
http://www.nccaiim.org.
Our sessions in suburban Maryland highlight
relevant “Hot Topics” in the industry and are shorter in duration
and scheduled in the breakfast hour.
The dates for upcoming Hot Topics sessions at The
Universities at Shady Grove MD are March 25, 2010, April 22, 2010,
and May 27, 2010. Look
for additional information and directions at
http://www.nccaiim.org
.
We will end the program year with a social event in June.
We intend to have excellent educational programs, good
networking opportunities, and entertaining key-note speakers.
We encourage you to make the most of
opportunities that the Chapter provides, to come to meetings, to
get involved in our committees, and to serve as a Committee chair
or as a member of the Executive Committee.
If you have any suggestions as to how we can make our Chapter
stronger, please let one of the Executive Committee members or me
know. With your help
we can make a difference.
Carolyn K. Offutt
President, National Capitol Chapter of AIIM
International
coffutt@o3star.com, 703-666-8190

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