Ralph,
As a former Chairman of the Board of AIIM, and having been involved in many discussions, workgroups, and staff engagement when considering new training programs for our industry, I find your remarks offensive and demeaning to the incredible work AIIM has done with education and training over the past ten years and the work they have put into the CIP program.
Your energies would be better served in promoting the CRM program and getting more of your colleagues qualified to carry that designation after their name. I will not embarrass you by printing the unbelievably low number of records management professionals that have earned this very prestigious acknowledgment of their hard work.
Are you a CRM?
The CIP designation presents an opportunity for many IT professionals, records managers, archivists and certainly vendors to broaden their understanding of the challenges we all face in our businesses today. Whether it is a technology issue, dealing with social media, security, the movement to the Cloud or the impact of mobile devices on the way we capture, index, manage, retrieve, retrieve and distribute information - we simply can't sit back and let the world pass us by.
AIIM stepped up the plate, made the investments, prepared the materials, and developed a program that will surely be of benefit to the majority of people working in our industry today and many of the readers here.
I do not know you, nor do I know if you have the credentials to make this kind of broad accusation that this program would be a waste of time for subscribers to this listserv. However, my guess is that most of them can probably make up their own minds without your sarcastic commentary when you have obviously not taken the test, don't intend to take the test, and seem to want to inflict your view on the value of CIP before the program gets off the ground.
If you would go into a testing center next week and take the test and send me your receipt, I will happily reimburse you for the cost of the test - whether you pass or fail - if you will let everyone know your score.
Respectfully,
Bob Zagami
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From: Records Management Program [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ralph Better
Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2012 5:53 PM
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Subject: CIP
I was out looking for some letters to possibly put behind my name and I tripped across the CIP. Can anyone possibly explain to me waht this is supposed to do for a Records Professional. Seems like a remedial course designed to bring an IT person in to the light of civilization, butonly to a limited extend. In addition, I can't see any IT person lowering themselves to take the test. Any RM worth their spit would shake their their head and wonder why they woulod shell out $265.00 for it. I don't know about any other RM, but I ca think of a lot of other things to waste my money on. Maybe if I was a vendor I would have a different perspective.
Whoever designed it needs to sit down with a "real" records manager and tailor it to our needs. I could be wrong, it's happened before at least once, but in this case I don't think so. Maybe I will take the CDIA. Get a bonus and then maybe give AIIM some money. Maybe AIIM is broke and needs a revenue stream or something. No minimum requirements to sit?
Qualifications
There are no mandatory requirements, but AIIM recommends candidates to have a minimum of three years experience and increasing responsibility in one or more topical areas, or a bachelor's degree in an information management-related discipline (library science, information technology, information security, etc.) plus one year of experience. The certification is open to anyone; it is not necessary to be a member of AIIM to take the exam.
WOW.
I can see where this will really impress the boss and raise the appreciation of the concept of Records Managers as professionals (sarcasm for those that can't read between the lines.
Well I guess I will go back to lurking now. I hope all you folks in tornado alley are alright. We are praying for you
Ralph Better
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