And why can't we all just get along? Best time I spent at the San Diego conference was in the industry roundtable. I'm telling you the 12 member "for those who don't fit anywhere else" was one kick-*ss group!
I support our association, but lately I don't feel as if it is ours. Blacklist me if you will, but I just don't get it. IG is not earth shattering for me either. It is how I've been working for years. Being a part of the infrastructure of a business is what it is all about. This is not a silo. It can't be.
Sorry...probably not making much sense.
Rock on!
Sharon
Sharon Burnett, CRM
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"If it ain't broke, take it apart and see why. If it is broke, take it apart
and see why."
> Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 22:07:53 -0500
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Conference content and "Mini" Conferences
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
> Todd, 'back in the day' ... we in ARMA used to have Industry Action
> Committees (IACs). The Utilities IAC was one of the most dynamic and
> successful; we won IAC of the Year many times. (Larry Funky Cold Medina
> was a member, by the way) We hosted a Mid-Year Utilities IAC conference
> every year, in the spring. We had excellent speakers and topics very
> pertinent and timely to the utilities and energy industry, excellent
> networking, had a good time, and ... we made money. ARMA Int wanted the
> money and control. So..., they wrested control and started grouping
> mid-year IACS together to make the money. Control... $$$ They felt the
> mid-years were taking away from Annual Conference attendance revenue, thus
> cutting out some of their revenue. So, they did away with them. $$$
> and control. For those who were whelped, weaned, and raised on large
> cattle ranches..., they managed the 'herd' to make the most money. It is
> what my Dad did; his focus was on making money; not enhancing the
> professional lives of the cattle. Eat mor chikin...
>
> There was discussion within the Utilities IAC at the time of splitting away
> from ARMA and forming our own professional association. Serious
> discussions. Not sure if ARMA Int. ever knew this. About 18 years
> previous to that NIRMA was established for many of those same reasons, by
> the way.
>
> Later, ARMA instituted Industry Specific Groups (ISGs); same thing as the
> IACS essentially, but with ARMA control. Those became a threat to ARMA Int
> also, and it was feared that those groupings would take away from
> attendance at the Annual Conference. So, the ISGs went bye-bye; deleted;
> destroyed, purged without a certificate of destruction. Now we have
> Industry Roundtables..., and ARMA begrudgingly provides space for these at
> the Annual Conference; one meeting per year... No money in it for them;
> why bother with us; why bother with what members might need..., if ...there
> is no profit in it for ARMA?
>
> Focus on what the members want and need..., or focus on what brings profit
> to Int.? And..., I know very well the need to be fiscally solvent as an
> association. Nevertheless, what is the focus/reason for the association?
> Why do we have members?
>
> On a little different topic.., now ARMA Int. is trying to gain control $$$
> of the annual Regions' Leadership conferences. Trying to group those;
> CONTROL ($$$) those. Never mind that some chapters will not be willing or
> able to foot the cost of sending as many Board members to a joint Regions'
> leadership; additional travel; and likely additional lodging costs. ARMA
> Int will probably act surprised at the results of their attempts to control
> ($$$) Regions' Leadership conferences. They may not realize it yet, but
> they kicked a hound dog sleeping content in the middle of a gravel road in
> rural America/Canada. Not smart.
>
> I expect I will hear from some people I have know for several decades on
> this. Many privately and in support; some public and trying to keep the
> peace. Some challenging what I have seen in my 31 years in the profession
> and as a member of ARMA Int.
>
> I hate paper.
>
> Best regards, Steve
> Steven D. Whitaker, CRM, IGP
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Todd Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > Larry said: "What happened to the CONTENT and the STRUCTURE of the
> > conference?"
> > <snip>
>
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