Silver Spring, MD, August 17, 2005—Content Management Professionals (CM Pros), the international content management community of practice, today announced its new member-driven committee process including a framework for the formation of regional chapters.
The CM Pros committee process—which enables members to formally organize in groups based on geographic location or common interest in a particular topic— empowers any group of at least three members to form a committee by issuing a call for participation to the entire membership. Within thirty days, the group hosts its first official meeting at which attendees elect a steering committee populated by at least three members of the group, one of whom serves as chair.
The steering committee oversees the creation and progress of subcommittees and strives to advance the mission of the committee. CM Pros committees may host events and meetings as well as engage in working activities, such as by publishing newsletters or contributing white papers to CM Pros growing Knowledge Resource library.
Named "The CM Pros [REGION] Community" or "The CM Pros [TOPIC] Community," the program is supported by CM Pros increasingly robust portfolio of services, including mailing lists, community-specific web pages, and support for events such as meetings and CM Pros Summits.
"CM Pros fosters knowledge exchange in the content management community," said Seth Gottlieb, Treasurer of CM Pros and Director of the Content Management Practice at Optaros. "By offering a practical approach to more frequent member interaction, the CM Pros committee process will help increase the organization’s day-to-day value."
"As an active member of the CM Pros community, I am thrilled that the organization has taken this step," said Rahel Bailie of Intentional Design in Vancouver, Canada. "This new committee process ensures that each and every member can receive direct benefit from their involvement."
Participation in CM Pros committees offers members the opportunity to build professional networks through face-to face-interaction and intensive collaboration. More than twelve regional groups plan to organize by the end of 2005, a number that is anticipated to double within a year.
"This new program enables innovation and knowledge sharing within small groups of individuals that share interests and experiences," declared Maarten Korz of De Lage Landen Financial Services in the Netherlands. "The combination of an international organization and a high degree of local and topical activity gives CM Pros members the breadth and depth we need to be effective content management professionals."
About CM Professionals
Founded in 2004, CM Pros—which has grown from a founding group of 30 content management experts to more than 400 members—provides information, expertise and support to content management professionals and the organizations they serve. Through peer-to-peer interchange, the collaborative development of best practices, a series of educational events and definitive knowledge resources such as a content management glossary and resource library, the organization fosters a better public understanding of this critically important discipline. On the Web at www.cmprosold.org.
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