Monday, September 24, 2012

Free Webinars Coming Up!

Make sure to check out these Free Webinars hosted by ARMA International.  After a month, you will have to pay for these webinars.  Schedule yourself of education!

The Principle of Accountability - A Records Manager Is Not Enough, Sept. 4 – 28, 2012 (M $0 / NM $0)


Social Media Governance: Balancing Risks and Rewards, Oct. 15 – 30, 2012 (M $0 / NM $0)

Region Message: Ready or not, Fall 2012 is here -

Hello everyone,

I’d like to introduce myself - my name is Andrew SanAgustin and I have been selected to be the Region Coordinator for the Great Northwest Region of ARMA. Since I arrived in the Pacific Northwest back in 2004, I’ve been an ARMA member and held a few Chapter Board positions. Currently, I am the Records and Conflicts Manager for a Seattle based law firm. I have been in the RIM field for more years than I’d care to admit, and I’ve worked in different industries as a RIM professional. Before arriving to Seattle, I was involved with ARMA for many years (in one way or another) in New York, Pittsburgh, and Washington DC. I am very thankful and extremely excited to be offered this position as a member of the Region Team. I am dedicated in helping out as best I can and supporting our new Region Manager, Jennifer Winkler.
I am writing just days before the ARMA International Conference in Chicago, at McCormick Place (September 23-25) and I am truly looking forward to this event. Not only does Conference provide an opportunity to interact with constituents (past and present), it’s a perfect venue for meeting people, learning about new business and vendor trends, and to caucus with other professionals in our field. Jennifer mentioned the building blocks of your professional life and I believe Conference is a cornerstone. Each time I arrive at Conference, I expect to receive new information. I want to experience sessions focusing on varying insights of RIM. I want to attend exciting presentations that will make me think of initiatives that I can implement in my world today. I find I am rarely disappointed and I return with a revived sense of direction, enthusiasm, and camaraderie (the warm and fuzzies!). I hope everyone gets a chance to experience this.

Certainly it’s challenging keeping up with the Kardashians, our lives, and our careers. But, identifying the building blocks for our professional and personal life is critical - it’s imperative to establish a firm strategy to success, with room for balance. These blocks come in many different shapes and sizes – with one-on-one conversations with folks, work experiences, or events and Educational functions hosted by the Chapters, the Region, as well as opportunities on the national level – and I hope we share as many of them together as possible.

I look forward to the chance of meeting with you this upcoming year, and I can’t wait for us to share war stories and thoughts, and to encourage each other in the work we do.

Hope to see you soon, either at conference or at other gatherings!

Andrew J. SanAgustin

GNW Region Coordinator

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

2012-2013 Greater Seattle Chapter Programs

The 2012-2013 Greater Seattle Chapter Program Brochure has been posted to the Website to see it, go to: Greater Seattle Website.

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Monday, September 10, 2012

Announcement from ARMA International The Principles

Dear Chapter Leader:


The Generally Accepted Recordkeeping Principles have become a foundation for good compliance across the professional landscape, in three short years, far exceeding our expectations of their use and importance.

Across one of those borders is an organization whose name could cause long-term confusion with ARMA International’s use of the acronym “GARP”. Starting immediately, we are aggressively moving away from the use of the short-hand “GARP” in favor of utilizing a more singular and encompassing name “The Principles.” By doing so, we feel that we will be able to utilize The Generally Accepted Recordkeeping Principles in a more complete and effective manner, to the wide professional audience in need of such guidelines.

However, it is also incumbent upon us to stress that ongoing use of the term “GARP”, starting immediately, could result in litigation upon individual chapters from a third party, should they fail to cease and desist from all future and new usage. This includes:

• Published or newsletter references

• PR and Social Media

• Or any new printed piece of promotional collateral using the term “GARP”

ARMA International will not be able to assist in covering the cost of litigation facing a chapter. As an organization, ARMA International will also be compliant in moving the brand of The Generally Accepted Recordkeeping Principles to new heights moving forward in favor of The Principles, by following these criteria:

• Immediately ceasing all new usage of “GARP”

• Removing “GARP” from all collateral, both online and print by July 31, 2013

As always, your partnership and participation within ARMA International’s chapter leadership is a valued and appreciated commitment. We also are grateful for your attention to this matter as we move onward and upward, pushing The Principles to new and existing audiences.

Many thanks,

Marilyn Bier, CAE

CEO, ARMA International