Hello and welcome to another start of the ARMA year!
Summer is going by fast, it just seems like yesterday we were meeting in Richland for the 2012 GNW Region Leadership Conference. It was two days of education and planning and I hope the attendees had a great time and found some tips, resources and renewed energy to take back to their chapters. During leadership we took some time to say Thank You to our fearless leader for the past four years. And I want to take one more opportunity to say thanks to Marc Simpson for his dedication and leadership to the Great Northwest Region and to ARMA overall. Did you know that Marc has been in a leadership role at either the Chapter or Region level for 17+ years?! He has brought a wealth of information to the area and I know we will be tapping into that knowledge for many years to come (can’t get away from us that easily Marc!).
With Marc’s departure and me taking the Region Manager role, that left us with the Region Coordinator position to fill, which we did last spring. Andrew SanAgustin will be joining the Region team as our new RC. As he’ll be writing next month’s region message, I’ll let him introduce himself. Please take a moment to welcome him when you see him.
All of our lives are comprised of many blocks which when put together make us who we are. Family, friends, co-workers, peers, professional associates are all blocks of our lives. Each block can consist of more blocks, such as ARMA is a block of our professional associates, and within that block are more blocks, such as chapter meetings, GARP, webinars, etc. All these blocks work together to make us whole.
ARMA is one of the support bases for my professional building block. I know that every year the Annual Conference will supply me with new resources, tools, and educational opportunities for my position at the City of Seattle. It also is a great place for networking and meeting new peers. This year the Annual Conference is being held in Chicago, September 23-25th and it is looking to be another great conference. As always, we are looking to have a no-host region lunch during the conference. If you are (or someone you know is) attending let either Andrew or myself know and we’ll keep an eye out. Or check the announcement board (generally by the registration table) for updates.
Hope to see many of your throughout the year!
Jennifer Winkler
GNW Region Manager
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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