Chris Walker: unFUDding Cloud Content Management.

The article to which he is referring (because it took me a minute to find the link in his post).

Marko Sillanpaa at BMOC: The Information Professional - Software Diplomat

OT: Musing about future dates & events

I've been at AIIM 5 1/2 years as of this Sunday. This marks my third longest tenure with a single organization and my longest performing substantially the same duties. I'm not particularly looking to leave - love my team and the AIIM staff at large, enjoy what I do, and as a full-time teleworker since 2004, what's not to like?

All that said, is it hubristic of me to think about scheduling time off / scheduling around certain events I want to attend for 2017? I never used to think about planning further than about a quarter out, because you just never know. Maybe it's my old age catching up to me, or the fact that as lean as we are I do feel a certain amount of job security. Which now means that karma's gonna get me....

Anyway, I think as we start to look at scheduling for 2017, which we typically don't do for my stuff until Q3 or so, I'm going to be a bit more proactive in blocking out time for some of the events I used to go to but haven't because of scheduling conflicts. Things like ARMA Canada, and ARMA Houston, and maybe some of the training and/or association events, and at least one big SharePoint conference. Here's to me. :)

Allen Podraza: AIIM16 Conference - My Highlights and Takeaways

Chris Johnson at Loosely Typed: SharePoint's next epoch

AIIM has posted all of the AIIM Conference 2016 presentations as PDFs to Slideshare; all of them are posted by date in one spot on the AIIM blog.

Kevin Parker: Reflections on the 2016 AIIM Conference

The CIP Beta is Live!

Updated to reflect final beta date of May 31, 2016.

Updated to add correct link to the registration process.

I am pleased to announce that the beta exam is live for the CIP 2016 update. So what's that mean?

The CIP has to go through a beta process in order to set a defensible passing score. We need 100+ candidates for each of the two beta forms. Once we have those exam results we can analyze the individual items to ensure they meet our standards; we will also set the passing score using the modified Angoff scoring mechanism.

The beta is the same as the "regular" CIP and those who pass the beta will be full CIPs. The primary differences are:

• The price, as shown below
• The exam is 3 hours, rather than 2, to give candidates time to provide comments on each question if so desired
• You will have to wait until the beta is over to get your score

How can you register? Simply go to http://www.webassessor.com/aiim/index.html, create an account, and follow the registration process. We have documented that process in a Word document which you can access here: https://myaiim.box.com/s/lj4t21jocktku7rzfatlazalbeye8j9h

This link is to the final CIP outline: https://myaiim.app.box.com/s/x26nmu6oxizdjugmht477e3drjs6cq33

Please note that the beta will only be available until May 23 or until we get the necessary registrations, whichever comes first. Update: the beta will remain live until May 31, 2016.

Cost of the beta is only $135. This is a massive discount from the full price of $285 for Professional members and $349 for non-members.

Please feel free to contact me directly with any questions at jwilkins@aiim.org.