Western
Colorado
Chapter
of
ARMA
International
Volume 1, Issue 1 September, 2009
wcoARMA RIM NEWS
wcoARMA Board of Directors working for you!
Inside this issue:
05/15 Opening Meeting 09/17 Kickoff Meeting More About Our Website “Topic of the Month” Did U Know? ARMA International Board Contact Info Events & Activities
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Your wcoARMA Board members have worked hard and accomplished a great deal since our May meeting! New Board members are Aimee Brown, Archivist/Historian/Librarian; Jeanie Gueretta, CRM Liaison; Sue Mueller, Marketing/PR Director; and Susan Sale, Membership & Budget Director. Welcome, Ladies! We are proud to share with you some of our activities:
Assoc. of Admin. Professionals — Bookcliff Chapter, Western CO Human Resources Assoc., and National Assoc. of Government Archives & Records Managers
• 1st edition of Newsletter published • Chapter website expanded and updated regularly • Chapter group created
on LinkedIn
08/01/09 Board Planning Retreat
• Banking and PayPal
accounts established
• Presentation on our start• Planning Retreat (photo
up activities at the Regional Leadership Conference shows Janet, Lisa, Sue, & Brian Starck, our Region Mentor from Denver!) drafted
• Doug Allen, President of
• Board groupsite
established; chapter formation and other important documents uploaded established ($.049/min)
ARMA Int, secured for Kickoff Meeting
Activities & Events
• September 17 Kickoff Meeting in GJ “Navigating Your RM Career in Troubled Times” with Doug Allen • October 9 brown bag webinar in GJ • October 15-18 ARMA Int. Conference & Expo in Orlando, FL • November 5 Free Meeting in Delta For details & dates visit our website www.wcoarmawebs.com
• Mission, Vision, and Values • Monthly programs outlined
for the year
• Teleconference account • Outreach to other profes-
• Constant Contact account
established through Mile High Denver Chapter
sional associations, including CO Municipal Clerks Assoc., CO County Clerks, Society of Rocky Mountain Archivists, Mesa County Bar Association, International
So tell us… How are we doing? What else would you like to see happen this year? And most important, what would you like to help make happen this year? Please call or drop us a line; contact info for all Board members is listed on page 4, or email us at wcoARMA@gmail.com. We want to hear from you!
wcoARMA wins Region Communications Award!
wcoARMA was honored with the Communications Award for small chapters at the Midwest Rocky Mountain Regional Leadership Conference in July! The MRM Region Chapters review all websites and newsletters, and determine the winner at the Leadership Conference held each summer. Criteria includes Quality of Information & Educational Content (35 points); Timeliness & Relevancy (35 points); and Consistency & Creativity (30 points). Two awards were presented, one for small-tomedium size chapters with fewer than 80 member), and a second one for large chapters with more than 80 members. The Twin Cities Chapter, with 200 members, won the large chapter award this year. Let us know how we can strengthen our communications in the coming year!
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05/15/09 Opening Chapter Meeting & Seminar
26 members & guests were on hand for the May 15th Opening Chapter Meeting at Two Rivers Convention Center in Grand Junction. We adopted Chapter By-Laws, approved the Dues Schedule, and elected Chapter Officers. Sheila Isaacson, Midwest Rocky Mountain Region Manager, conducted the Board Installation (photo below). Trevor Mitchell, ARMA Int Sr. Manager of Member Services, presented the Chapter Charter. Pretty cool to make a little history as the 104th (and newest) ARMA Chapter! book: “Records Mgmt: Making the Transition from Paper to Electronic” by David O. Stephens, CRM. Additionally, we received $500 from our Region managers to help us get started, and a $400 leadership grant from ARMA Int, which allowed our chapter president to attend the Region Leadership Conference in Estes Park in July.
• Deb Hess, CMC, told how
Granby overcame the 2004 destruction of town hall by an enraged citizen in an armored bulldozer.
Special thanks to International, our Region, & sister chapters in Northern CO & Denver for their generous financial support!
wcoARMA is grateful for the generosity and enthusiastic support of the Mile High Denver & Northern Colorado Chapters and our Region. Denver paid for the entire cost of the meeting room and luncheon. Northern Colorado presented us with a check for $250 and our first library
DISASTER PREP SEMINAR The disaster preparation, mitigation, & recovery Terry Ketelsen, CO State Archivist seminar which followed was terrific. We learned a lot of Keynote speaker and special helpful strategies, solutions, guest was our very own State tips, & tricks from our four Archivist Terry Ketelsen, manpanelists, all of whom are ager of the Information & active records professionals Archival Services Unit of the in Colorado. CO Dept. of Personnel & Ad• Kathleen Fortenberry, CRM, ministration. Terry has been talked about everyday involved in records managedisasters & how to handle ment since 1963 and was them when they inevitably appointed to State Archivist in occur. 1987. He has helped with recovery efforts throughout • Karen Hughes shared the state, and shared stories experiences and lessons & details about major Cololearned from the Jefferson rado records disasters. County basement flood in July, 2008. Feedback received from • Judy Egbert, MMC, regaled attendees was quite positive. us with tales of last year’s Please visit our website for salmonella outbreak in copies of the presentations Alamosa, dubbed Sally and handouts. 2008 by the Nat’l Guard.
September 17 Kickoff Meeting “Navigating Your RM Career in Troubled Times”
Our two-part Kickoff Meeting this year is scheduled for Thursday, Sept 17 from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at Western CO Community College in GJ. Session 2 will be a Panel Discussion about RIM Education & Training Opportunities available to us in Western CO. Lunch is included; you may select one session ($25) or both sessions ($40). More details are available on our website under “This Month’s Meeting.” For questions or to register, please contact Melinda Catapano. Please join us — mark your calendars now!
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10:30 Registration & check-in 11:00 Session 1 12:15 Lunch 1:00 Chapter meeting 1:30 Session 2
Doug Allen ARMA Int President
Session 1 will feature Doug Allen (above).
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More about our website www.wcoarma.webs.com
Have you checked out the wcoARMA website yet? According to webmaster Melinda, the wcoARMA website started out as an experiment in April to provide information about our start-up activities as well as the Charter meeting and Seminar. It has since expanded to include detailed information about wcoARMA educational & networking events, member activities, and more! The website, currently hosted by freewebs.com, is intended to nurture twoway communications between our far-flung chapter members and facilitate conversations with Board members. We will also use our website to share RIM related information and link to other websites with details about: • ARMA International: conferences, webinars, online courses, & publications • industry news, trends, &
• membership information • links to RIM resources • “Hot Topic” articles and
white papers Our features include: • Calendar • Member List • Member Search • Photo Galleries • Opinion Forums • Presentations • Recent Events • and our newest item: the wcoARMA blog! Check it out when you can. Plan to spend some time with us real soon… complete your profile, upload a photo, and tell us what’s on your mind!
RIM headlines
www.wcoarma.webs.com
“Topic of the Month” - new website page “In order to ‘get’ Twitter you really have to use it.” J Wilkins
“What Are You Doing? A gentle introduction to Twitter” is our inaugural article of the month, written by none other than Jesse Wilkins, Principal Consultant with Access Sciences Corporation. We’re also proud to claim him as a charter member of wcoARMA. Surely you’ve heard about Twitter, and micro-blogging? A free collaborative webbased tool which allows users to share as well as request information or assistance?? Perhaps you’re already tweeting away, adding to our 3,000,000 tweets per day. Or perhaps you relied on Twitterers during recent events like the Iraq election to keep up with the latest, greatest, and worstest? If not, you may be asking what Twitter is all about, and how can it help you?! Well, lucky you — the answers to these and other questions are in Jesse’s article on our website! He outlines the business case for Twitter as well as the records management aspects (yes, tweets are subject to the Colorado Open Records Act, and discoverable!). As Jesse says, “In order to ‘get Twitter, you really have to use it. … It can be a helpful resource for most people and I encourage everyone reading
Are you a twitterer?
this who has not tried Twitter to give it a chance.”Why not start tweeting and twittering today?!
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Follow Jesse on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/ jessewilkins
Did U Know?
According to Marta Kagan, in a recent Slideshare presentation: • 3,000,000 Tweets per day on Twitter.com • 100,000,000 YouTube videos viewed per day, 13 hours of video uploaded every minute • 13,000,000 articles available on Wikipedia • 1,000,000,000 web entries shared each week on FaceBook (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.) source: http://tiny.cc/d2SAg
WESTERN COLORADO CHAPTER OF ARMA INTERNATIONAL
www.wcoarma.webs.com wcoarma@gmail.com PO Box 3566 Grand Junction, CO
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2009-10 Board of Directors
81502 President: Melinda Catapano - City of Grand Junction 970-244-1497; melindac@gjcity.org Vice President/President Elect: Lisa Cain - New Castle 970-984-2311; lisa@newcastlecolorado.org Secretary: Janet Gibbons - Dept. of Energy 970-284-6174; janet.gibbons@lm.doe.gov Treasurer: vacant Member-At-Large: Cindy Smith - S&K Aerospace 970-257-2135; cindy.smith@gjemtac.doe.gov Archivist/Historian/Librarian: Aimee Brown - Mesa State College 970-284-1864; aimbrown@mesastate.edu Budget & Membership Director: Susan Sale - Western CO Community College 970-255-2605; ssale@mesastate.edu
wcoARMA’s mission is to provide educational opportunities, resources, and networking events to support the professional development of Records and Information Management practitioners and professionals n Western Colorado.
ARMA International is a notfor-profit professional assoc. and the authority on managing records and information – paper and electronic. ARMA was established in 1955. Its approximately 11,000 members include records managers, archivists, corporate librarians, imaging specialists, legal professionals, IT mgrs, consultants, and educators, all of whom work in a wide variety of industries, including government, legal, healthcare, financial services, and petroleum in the US, Canada, and 30+ other countries. ARMA International publishes Information Management (IM) magazine, the only professional journal specifically for professionals who manage records and information on a daily basis. The award-winning IM journal is published bi-monthly and features top-drawer articles on the hottest topics in records and information management today, as well as marketplace news and analysis. The association also develops and publishes standards and guidelines related to records management. It was a key contributor to the international records management standard, ISO15489.
CRM Liaison: Jeanie Gueretta - Department of Energy 970-284-7634; Jeanie.gueretta@lm.doe.gov PR/Marketing Director: Sue Mueller - City of Grand Junction 970-256-4016; suem@gjcity.org
2009-2010 Program Year Events & Activities
To offer a variety of meeting formats and information that will appeal to all members, we have scheduled a combination of formal and informal chapter events every month. I think you’ll agree this is a pretty ambitious schedule — especially considering this is our first year! We do need help pulling this off, so please contact one of the Board members if you can help out on one of our meeting committees. We’re still working out details, but further information about these and other events are on our website calendar, but here’s a listing of what we’ve come up with so far! • 09/17 Kickoff meeting in GJ: “Navigating Your RM Career in Troubled Times” • 10/08 Lunch webinar in GJ • 11/05 Free chapter meeting in Delta: “What We Learned at Recent ARMA International Conferences” • 12/11 Lunch webinar in GJ • 01/08 Lunch webinar in GJ • 02/12 Lunch webinar in GJ • 03/?? Chapter meeting GJ: CRM workshop and local facility tour • 04/2010 RIM MONTH Community outreach; RIM 101 presentations for local businesses • 05/?? Spring Seminar in GJ
Save the Date!
• 05/2010 Officer Elections • 06/?? Annual Business Meeting & Board Installation