CMProfessionals - Action Items 5/30

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CMProfessionals - Action Items 5/30/2004

Please join a working group!

Organization -
- Governance - Ann Rockley (chair), Mary Lee Kennedy, Lisa Welchman
  - Members elect Board of Directors
  - Limit two 2-year terms (expenses only compensation)
  - Board appoints Officers (President, Secretary, Treasurer), Committees, Advisory Board (expenses only compensation).
  - Board (or President?) appoints Executive Director (time and expenses compensation).
  - Bylaws (modified AIfIA bylaws as a talking points draft)
  - Self-governing or subsidiary of existing org (AIIM? an ACM-SIG?)
- Business Model - Bob Boiko (chair), Frank Gilbane, Ann Rockley, Lisa Welchman
  - Member fees the principal source of income
  - CM Summit could also raise revenue.
  - Fees will go into an escrow account pending decision on form of organization. Or we could accept credit cards and not charge until organization exists. Or we could accept pledges to join.
  - Payment Methods - PayPal, eCommerce solution?
  - Staff requirements
    - CM Summit Organizer
  - Pro forma Budget
    - May need funds for legal incorporation (AIfIA spent about $7000)
    - May need funds for staff - Executive Director (esp. travel expenses to face-to-face and other meetings)
  - Milestones, working backward from CM Summit end of November.
    - Name first temporary acting officers (President, Secretary, Treasurer)
    - First public announcement. Note July/August issue of EContent closes soon. To get an announcement in we should tell them immediately. September issue would allow only 3 months organizing for December Summit
    - Announce CM Summit. Note we need plenty of time to determine attendance, select a venue, etc.
    - Circulate draft member survey to gauge interest, estimate revenues.
    - Expand founding/charter member group - any membership fees to be escrowed, or just take credit-card as pledges if concerns continue about abuse of funds.
- Marketing, Branding, and Image - Frank Gilbane (chair), Lisa Welchman (chair), Erik Hartman
  - We need a unified message - who we are
  - We need a first-class website
  - A functional specification
- Member Benefits and Services - Howard McQueen (chair), Scott Abel
  The principal and most marketable benefit is simply membership itself.
  Others include
  - The CMPROS mailing list
  - Member Surveys
  - Knowledge resources
    - Glossary
    - Best Practices - Literature Search
    - Models and Design Patterns
  - Website(s)
  - CM Summit
  - F2F Meetings
  - Discounts on conferences, subscriptions
  - An email newsletter
  - A Professional Directory
  - Job Board
  - CM Consultant Search (by skills, experience, etc.)
  - An International Events Calendar (with professional discounts indicated)
  - Health and Contract Insurance
  - Educational Opportunities - Workshops, Seminars, Webinars
  - Certificates of course completion
- CM Gurus
  - the core gurus group plan to exchange intellectual property. Membership is by invitation from current members.
  They have their own CMGurus mailing list (cmgurus@lists.cmprofessionals.org), and plan a face-to-face meeting at the CM Summit in November.
  - James Robertson (chair), Gerry McGovern, Martin White
- Virtual/Online Meetings Technology Recording/Webcasting Technology
  - Bob Doyle (chair), Scott Abel, James Robertson
- Calendar/Schedule for Face-to-Face meetings ("whenever two or more of us")
  - Lisa Welchman
Resource development - Knowledge Base (Deliverables)
- Glossary (try the drop-down menu above).
  - JoAnn Hackos, Bob Boiko, Scott Abel, James Robertson, Bob Doyle
- Best Practices
  - Tony Byrne (co-chair), Mary Lee Kennedy (co-chair), Erik Hartman, Jane McConnell, John O'Donovan, Brendan Quinn, James Robertson, Bill Trippe, Lisa Welchman
  - Identify suggested areas for best practices
  - Research existing articles- list of references
  - Write new articles for major magazines
  - Identify the magazines
  - Reuse core arguments in many articles
  - Formulate Recommended Best Practices as RFCs (Request for Comments) following W3C style. Solicit comments online.
  - Worst Practice #1 - Buying the tool first.
- Models and Design Patterns.
  - Tony Byrne (chair), John O'Donovan. Brendan Quinn, Ann Rockley
- CM Summit 2004
  - Bob Doyle (chair), Bob Boiko, Tony Byrne
  - The CM Summit will be focused on CM practitioners and free of marketing hype.
  - Meetings will have CM experts on panels to facilitate discussion. However, sessions will not typically be Powerpoint presentations, but interaction with attendee members to learn what should be done to help the profession and develop best practices in a number of specific areas.
  - We will solicit papers from attendees, but they will not be delivered as regular presentations. Instead, they will be published (as soon as received) on the website, and will be used to select expert panel members to lead specific sessions. At a minimum, papers should include a comprehensive web/literature review on the topic.
  - Attendees of a session will receive printed versions of the papers as working papers. The session objectives will be to discuss the ideas put forward, sharpen them into agreed positions on best practices, or put them forward for further research by a working group.
  - Sessions will be videotaped and archived for future use by the working group and general members.
  - Panel members will be de facto members of the working group, and other attendees may also join. A collaborative blog or wiki will be created for each best practice area to carry on the Summit's face-to-face work and arrive at a revised white paper on the best practice.
  - Resource-related sessions will include mailing list policies, the multilingual glossary project, the events calendar, and liaison with other organizations.
  - Organization-related sessions will discuss governance, the business model, marketing ideas, member benefits and services, and CM Summit 2005.
  - The membership will ratify a set of bylaws, elect a board of directors, officers, and appoint an Executive Director.
- Mailing Lists
  - Members-only mailing list.
    cmpros@lists.cmprofessionals.org
  - Public mailing list - CM Pros take ownership.
    cms@lists.cms-forum.org
    - Bob Doyle
  - CMS Websites ownership - CMS News, CMS Forum, CMS Wiki, CMS Calendar, CMS Glossary.
    - Bob Doyle
- Calendar.
  - Bob Doyle, Lisa Welchman
- CMSML Product Comparisons.
  - Erik Hartman (chair), Bob Doyle
Industry Liaisons
- AIIM
  - Frank Gilbane, Tony Byrne
- APQC
  - Mary Lee Kennedy
- ASIS&T
  - Tony Byrne, Bob Doyle
- AIfIA
  - Mary Lee Kennedy, John O'Donovan
- IFI
  - Mary Lee Kennedy
- OSCOM
  - Bob Doyle
- SLA
  - Mary Lee Kennedy
- STC
  - Scott Abel
- TELEOS
  - Mary Lee Kennedy
- WITI
  - Lisa Welchman

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