FROM REGION COORDINATOR DEAN KOGA -- "WELCOME TO ANOTHER ARMA YEAR!"
Congratulations are in order for Mark Hoffman and the Puget Sound Chapter for winning the “Best Newsletter” and “Chapter of the Year” awards for a medium-size chapter during the awards program at the recent ARMA International Conference in Boston. The Puget Sound members have invested a lot of time working on RIM and community projects to bring these honors home to their chapter and to our region for the last three or four years. I congratulate all of the members in the Puget Sound Chapter for their commitment to ARMA.
At the conference, the ARMA International Educational Foundation (AIEF) presented speaker John Montana, J.D., and his research project, Legal Obstacles to E-mail Message Destruction. This project was the first grant as a result of the newly formed educational foundation and can be accessed here in PDF format. If you would like to see more research projects, such as this one, I urge you to make a donation to the ARMA International Educational Foundation. Best of all, your contributions are tax-deductible. You can also pledge $100 for five years and become a Legacy 5/100 donor.
The conference included some excellent sessions on E-mail, E-Records, RIM software, Sarbanes-Oxley, XML, electronic risks, records retention, spoliation of evidence, and finally the mock trial. The vendor exhibits had solutions to our records management, e-mail sorting, shredding, records storage, and scanning needs.
During our region luncheon, Greater Anchorage members Renee Salvucci and Larry Hayden distributed an attractive brochure for the ARMA 2004 Great Northwest Region Conference, “Real Adventures in Records Management,” May 17-19, 2004, in Anchorage, Alaska. Mark your calendars and get ready for some excellent speakers, educational programs, and spectacular sites including the Phillips 26 Glacier Cruise.
With the ARMA year in full swing, many chapters have already presented their members with some innovative programs and seminars, so I urge you all to take advantage of these networking and educational opportunities.
Finally, if you have any questions or comments about how our ARMA region is doing, do not hesitate to contact Dee Wise, Leslie Sturgeon or me, Dean Koga, and we will do our best to address your issues or make changes.
Have an exciting ARMA year and a peaceful holiday season.
Dean Koga
Region Coordinator
Communications by and for the members of the Greater Seattle Chapter of the Association of Records Managers and Administrators (ARMA), International. The chapter's Web site is at http://www.armaseattle.org. Earliest messages are at the bottom; later ones were added above them. Read from the bottom up.
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