I followed the thread on this topic beginning Saturday evening including
the initial post from Ralph Better (if that;s your real name).  I will make
this short and sweet.  I served as an SME (records management) for AIIM in
the development of the CIP exam questions.  After spending a week in
Baltimore with AIIM staff and SME's from a variety of fields, I can state
that in addition to developing records management exam questions, I was
truly schooled and came away as a better educated RIM professional.  Some
records and information managers may work for organizations were the CIP
will serve them no purpose, but I think this comprises the minority of
organizations.  The topics covered in the CIP exam are relevant to
me. Additionally my company fully endorsed and encouraged my participation
as an SME.

Sincerely

Blake E. Richardson, CIP, CRM

On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Jesse Wilkins <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hi Alex,
>
> (AIIM guy again - full disclosure etc.)
>
> Sorry to hear your comments. I don't know what the SharePoint course
> contains but a) I will as I am taking it in 10 days and will become the
> primary AIIM trainer for that and b) the consulting firm that developed
> that
> course for AIIM is also the first to get their RM add-on for SharePoint
> 2010
> certified under US DOD 5015.2 so I wouldn't discredit them.
>
> More broadly, AIIM is not valuable merely or mostly for vendors. Most of
> the
> members of our community are end users from a broad spectrum of industries
> and roles including US government, financial services, manufacturing,
> retail, and others. I have been a professional member since 2001 on my own
> dime and even as staff will be sending them a check next week to renew.
>
> It sounds like your comments are not based on first-hand knowledge. Clearly
> I am biased as an AIIM employee and principal developer of the Email
> Certificate Program, the 2009 update to the ERM Certificate Program, and
> lead for the CIP, but the comments I have seen from the SharePoint course
> as
> well as others have been uniformly positive. The course was NOT developed
> by
> Microsoft, but rather by people who have implemented SharePoint - and in
> particular SharePoint for records management.
>
> So at the risk of sounding like a troll, I hope that you would consider
> taking the course. And for the CIP, I hope that you would at least review
> the information available at http://www.aiim.org/certification. I would
> not
> be an AIIM employee if I didn't believe they had value to offer the
> communities I am a member of, including the records management community.
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Jesse Wilkins, CIP, CRM
> Director, Research and Development
> AIIM International
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