Greetings Great Northwest Region
For those fortunate enough to attend the Great Northwest Region Conference in Boise – Wow is all I can say. There were five FAI’s teaching at the conference. The quality of the speakers was phenomenal. This conference was the premiere event in the Region.
There were 17 people signed up for the new iCRM Training post conference, certainly the ‘icing on the cake’ to a terrific conference. This reminds me to remind all of you of our new GNW Region Mentorship Program. If you are interested in being a mentor or would like to partner up with a mentor, please let me know. The Columbia Basin Chapter has a member who is putting together a CRM study group for the chapter to be held before each chapter meeting. They currently have three people studying to be CRM’s. I have seen notes about CRM training in the newsletters of several other chapters. This is a hot topic with people trying to retain their jobs or prepare for advancement.
Arg!! Calling all pirates. Once again, the Oregon Chapter and the Region are teaming up to march our GNW Region Pirate Ship in the Portland Rose Festival Starlight Parade on June 2nd. We need all the pirates we can get to walk in this parade with our friends from Iron Mountain. Please contact Tyrene Bada, President Oregon Chapter if you are interested in participating. We had a blast last year with Trevor Mitchell and Komal Gulich. They made great Pirates!
The Great Northwest Region Leadership Conference is scheduled for June 8 & 9 in Richland Washington. The registration fee is $50/person to attend. The conference will be held at the Hampton Inn on the River. Everyone is invited to participate. This is a great opportunity to network with the Region Team, other Chapter leaders, Headquarter staff and the ARMA International Board of Directors. The training on each leadership position and the role you play is beneficial to all chapters. The agenda and further details will be published and distributed shortly.
The focus of the Keynote address from Galina Datskovsky, Ph.D., CRM, at the Great Northwest Region Conference was on both President Obama’s direction to agencies to improve records management policies. He stated agencies must deliver plans for modernizing their records management policies by late March. And perhaps most importantly, David Ferriero, 10th Archivist of the United States, has said, "I strongly support this Presidential initiative, which sends a very clear message to Federal agencies about the importance of managing electronic records. Records management must keep up with the technologies used to create records in the Federal government, and the President’s Memorandum underlines the critical nature of this responsibility." You can read more from the Archivist on his blog.
[http://www.arma.org/news/index.cfm?NewsID=971&Type=Industry] It was a powerful keynote conclusion to the conference!
Peggy Simpson
Director of Marketing and Membership
Chair Great NW Region Mentorship Program
Great Northwest Region
ARMA international
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.
Friday, March 23, 2012
Announcement from the GNW Region
Hello Everyone!
As you all know, this is my last year as Region Manager of the Great Northwest Region. It is with some sadness that I will be leaving this role on July 1st , 2012. I have grown to love our region and the many wonderful colleagues and friends I have made within it. But life moves on. Beginning July 1st, the GNW Region will need a new manager.
I am very pleased to announce that Jennifer Winkler has been appointed by ARMA International to be your new Region Manager of the Great Northwest Region for the term beginning July 1, 2012 through June 30, 2014.
Jennifer will bring a great deal of experience and talent to her new role. She has been a member of ARMA and the Bellevue/Eastside Chapter for 15 years. Jenny has done just about everything there is to do on the Chapter level. In 2006, she Co-Chaired the GNW Region Conference. On the Association level, Jennifer has served on the Vital Records Guidelines Task Force and the Branding Task Force.
Jennifer has been BEC's Chapter member of the Year three times having been honored by her chapter in 2002, 2006, and 2008.
She holds a Masters Degree from Western Washington University (History with certification in Archival Administration and Records Management).
Jennifer is also active as the Chair of the Association of Local Agency Records Managers (local government agencies in Washington State), a role that she has served in since 1997. She is also a member of the Seattle Area Archivists (member since 1995) and the Northwest Archivists (member since 1996).
In 2009, Jenny joined the Region Team as Region Coordinator. Among her duties, she Chaired the Region Conference in 2010. She has gained the respect of ARMA’s Board of Directors, HQ and the other Region Managers and Coordinators. This past year, we all watched as she courageously battled and triumphed over breast cancer with grace and dignity, still upholding her duties to the Region as best she could. On a personal note, she is an invaluable right hand to me and a friend. So although it will not easy for me to leave this role in July, I am very thrilled to leave it in such capable hands.
Please join me in congratulating Jenny!
Marc
Marc J. Simpson, Region Manager
Great Northwest Region
ARMA International
As you all know, this is my last year as Region Manager of the Great Northwest Region. It is with some sadness that I will be leaving this role on July 1st , 2012. I have grown to love our region and the many wonderful colleagues and friends I have made within it. But life moves on. Beginning July 1st, the GNW Region will need a new manager.
I am very pleased to announce that Jennifer Winkler has been appointed by ARMA International to be your new Region Manager of the Great Northwest Region for the term beginning July 1, 2012 through June 30, 2014.
Jennifer will bring a great deal of experience and talent to her new role. She has been a member of ARMA and the Bellevue/Eastside Chapter for 15 years. Jenny has done just about everything there is to do on the Chapter level. In 2006, she Co-Chaired the GNW Region Conference. On the Association level, Jennifer has served on the Vital Records Guidelines Task Force and the Branding Task Force.
Jennifer has been BEC's Chapter member of the Year three times having been honored by her chapter in 2002, 2006, and 2008.
She holds a Masters Degree from Western Washington University (History with certification in Archival Administration and Records Management).
Jennifer is also active as the Chair of the Association of Local Agency Records Managers (local government agencies in Washington State), a role that she has served in since 1997. She is also a member of the Seattle Area Archivists (member since 1995) and the Northwest Archivists (member since 1996).
In 2009, Jenny joined the Region Team as Region Coordinator. Among her duties, she Chaired the Region Conference in 2010. She has gained the respect of ARMA’s Board of Directors, HQ and the other Region Managers and Coordinators. This past year, we all watched as she courageously battled and triumphed over breast cancer with grace and dignity, still upholding her duties to the Region as best she could. On a personal note, she is an invaluable right hand to me and a friend. So although it will not easy for me to leave this role in July, I am very thrilled to leave it in such capable hands.
Please join me in congratulating Jenny!
Marc
Marc J. Simpson, Region Manager
Great Northwest Region
ARMA International
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