From the AIIM Awards page: Nominations for the AIIM Leadership Awards, Company of Fellows, and Award of Merit should be sent to Jessica Lombardo at jlombardo@aiim.org no later than Friday, February 1, 2019. Questions? Please email Jessica at jlombardo@aiim.org.
All nominations must be of AIIM Professional members and made by Professional members. Nominations to the Company of Fellows must be made by a Fellow and the nominated person must have been a Professional member of AIIM for the preceding five years or served as the Chair of the Board of Directors. Nominations for the Award of Merit, AIIM's highest honor, must have been a member of the Company of Fellows for the preceding five years.
Additional details about each category of award are available at https://www.aiim.org/awards.
January 25, 2019
Asif Rehmani, CMSWire: Why You Should Launch Your SharePoint Deployment & Adoption Plan Concurrently
ARMA Canada Opens Call for Speakers
ARMA Canada has announced its call for speakers for ARMA Canada 2019, scheduled for June 3-5, 2019 in Montreal, Quebec. Presentations must be submitted by Feb 11, 2019. Additional details are available at http://armacanada.org/index.php/become-a-speaker/.
January 17, 2019
ARMA opens CFP for ARMA 2019
ARMA has opened its call for speakers to participate in ARMA Live! 2019, scheduled for Oct 21-23, 2019 in Nashville, TN. Submissions are due no later than February 15, 2019. Additional details and the form can be found at https://www.arma.org/page/2019-call-for-proposals.
January 15, 2019
Library and Archives Canada: Governance and Recordkeeping Around the World, Jan 2019. Tons of interesting articles - as always.
January 10, 2019
We Need a Few Good...Subject Matter Experts for the CIP!
Earlier today we sent out a call for subject matter experts (SMEs) for the 2019 update to the Certified Information Professional (CIP) exam. A couple of potential SMEs indicated that they wanted to participate, but weren't sure they had the time. So here's what I sent to one of them, and wanted to share with other potential SMEs.
The exam development process needs highly qualified SMEs for these four primary tasks:
Once we get the survey back, we'll use that to revise the exam blueprint and send that out to the subject matter experts. We'll then schedule a web conference session to review and finalize it. We'll be looking to have the final draft of the blueprint done the first week of February and the final approved blueprint the second week of February.
2. Develop exam questions for CIP 2019. This begins with a 2-hour web conference, and then item writers will have around 10 days to write 15 questions each. This is the one we need the most number of SMEs for, because SMEs are generally only able to write 15 questions each before they start either repeating or burning out. I tell people that writing a really good, accurate, proper exam question takes about 20-30 min, so the commitment here is likely around 8 hours over a 10-day period. This is late Feb to mid-March.
3. Review others’ exam questions for CIP 2019. Same training, and then wait for items to start coming in, so it's a bit back-loaded. I'd argue that reviewing is less taxing but you have to be very detail-oriented to make sure that the question really is correct, concise, and accurate. Late Feb to mid-March.
All of this leads us to a beta CIP exam that we expect to run from mid-March to mid-April. We need at least 125 people to participate in this, but those should NOT be subject matter experts. Rather, we want people with 3-5 years experience in information management (IM) and with exposure to multiple aspects of IM or multiple IM-related processes. I'll post a more specific invitation for that once we get there.
4. Develop the passing score for CIP 2019, based on the beta exam results. This is a process called modified Angoff scoring. It's a couple of 2-hour web conference sessions where we go over every single question from the beta exam and rate each question based on importance and difficulty. This would most likely be early May.
Once we complete the Angoff scoring, we can let the beta test takers know whether they passed or not, publish the official passing score, and formally launch the exam.
But I'm not a CIP...yet.
You can still help.
We have a call for participation form live at https://gzclelland.wufoo.com/forms/mp82rki1pj387u/. Fill out the form completely and attach a resume or CV. We also have a link to an NDA at the top. Once we get the form and the NDA, we'll review your status and let you know within the next couple of weeks whether we can use you. Our needs may change over the course of the update, so I will keep every potential SME's information and NDA on file until the exam goes live (and then we'll get rid of it because data protection!).
For more information, or if you have any questions, please contact me directly at jwilkins@aiim.org.
The exam development process needs highly qualified SMEs for these four primary tasks:
- Develop the exam blueprint
- Develop exam questions
- Review exam questions
- Set the passing or cut score
Once we get the survey back, we'll use that to revise the exam blueprint and send that out to the subject matter experts. We'll then schedule a web conference session to review and finalize it. We'll be looking to have the final draft of the blueprint done the first week of February and the final approved blueprint the second week of February.
2. Develop exam questions for CIP 2019. This begins with a 2-hour web conference, and then item writers will have around 10 days to write 15 questions each. This is the one we need the most number of SMEs for, because SMEs are generally only able to write 15 questions each before they start either repeating or burning out. I tell people that writing a really good, accurate, proper exam question takes about 20-30 min, so the commitment here is likely around 8 hours over a 10-day period. This is late Feb to mid-March.
3. Review others’ exam questions for CIP 2019. Same training, and then wait for items to start coming in, so it's a bit back-loaded. I'd argue that reviewing is less taxing but you have to be very detail-oriented to make sure that the question really is correct, concise, and accurate. Late Feb to mid-March.
All of this leads us to a beta CIP exam that we expect to run from mid-March to mid-April. We need at least 125 people to participate in this, but those should NOT be subject matter experts. Rather, we want people with 3-5 years experience in information management (IM) and with exposure to multiple aspects of IM or multiple IM-related processes. I'll post a more specific invitation for that once we get there.
4. Develop the passing score for CIP 2019, based on the beta exam results. This is a process called modified Angoff scoring. It's a couple of 2-hour web conference sessions where we go over every single question from the beta exam and rate each question based on importance and difficulty. This would most likely be early May.
Once we complete the Angoff scoring, we can let the beta test takers know whether they passed or not, publish the official passing score, and formally launch the exam.
But I'm not a CIP...yet.
You can still help.
- Once the job task analysis survey is live, I'll be posting it to social media and we have some other non-CIP audiences we'd like to hear from. So please feel free to complete that survey.
- We need at least 125 non-CIPs to participate in the beta exam. I don't have details to share yet, but the cost of the beta exam will be significantly lower than the cost of the live exam, and candidates who pass the beta will be CIPs in every respect. The most significant difference with the beta is that you'll probably need to wait 4-6 weeks to get your results back.
- We may have some specific requirements for SMEs, especially for item writing and reviewing, that are not represented in the CIP community. If you're interested and have the requisite experience and expertise, feel free to submit the form below. I can't promise you we'll need you, but I can promise a response one way or the other.
We have a call for participation form live at https://gzclelland.wufoo.com/forms/mp82rki1pj387u/. Fill out the form completely and attach a resume or CV. We also have a link to an NDA at the top. Once we get the form and the NDA, we'll review your status and let you know within the next couple of weeks whether we can use you. Our needs may change over the course of the update, so I will keep every potential SME's information and NDA on file until the exam goes live (and then we'll get rid of it because data protection!).
For more information, or if you have any questions, please contact me directly at jwilkins@aiim.org.
Andrew Pery, writing for AIIM: The Tension between GDPR and Blockchain: Are they Polar Opposites or Can they Co-exist?
January 9, 2019
CIP 2019 - Quick Update on Renewals and Reinstatement
If you're a CIP, you know or should know that you have to renew it every three years, either by retaking the then-current exam (and paying the then-current exam fee!), or by submitting 45 continuing education credits and paying a renewal fee. I wrote about that process at some length at https://informata.blogspot.com/2016/07/maintaining-your-cip-certification.html.
When we launch the revised CIP exam later this year, we're going to increase the CEU requirement from 45 over 3 years to 60 over 3 years, or 20/year. This will bring us into alignment with nearly every other industry certification.
Most CIPs are already doing well in excess of 20 hours of continuing education a year - which is not surprising, given the rate of change and the imperative to keep up with it all. And 20 hours a year equates to less than 1% of a work year, so we think it's reasonable to expect a professional to spend 1% of their time keeping up with trends and changes.
Updated 6/3/2019: The renewal fees will stay the same, $135 for AIIM professional members and $150 for non-members.
Reinstatement
We're going to increase the reinstatement fee to $249. This fee only applies to CIPs who let their status lapse and who need to renew after the 3-year renewal period. However, we are also giving serious thought to removing the current 1-year limit, so that a lapsed CIP would be able to renew at any time by submitting CEUs earned within the previous 3 years and paying the renewal fee. We believe that anyone who has passed the CIP exam at least once has demonstrated their "CIP-ness" and should be eligible to reinstate their status, provided they submit the required CEUs and pay the reinstatement fee.
How will this affect current CIPs?
We're targeting the exam to go live this summer, and we'll give more specific dates as we get closer. All changes to the program, as well as the exam itself, will all go live at the same time, and all new CIPs and all renewal cycles that start after that date will be subject to the new requirements. So if you're a CIP now and good through, say, June 5, 2020, you'd have to meet the new requirements starting June 5, 2020 for your renewal cycle ending June 5, 2023. (JW: Updated to reflect change in thinking based on comments below)
We'll be communicating this often - via email, via social media, at the AIIM community, etc.
I welcome your thoughts and comments here or at jwilkins@aiim.org.
When we launch the revised CIP exam later this year, we're going to increase the CEU requirement from 45 over 3 years to 60 over 3 years, or 20/year. This will bring us into alignment with nearly every other industry certification.
Most CIPs are already doing well in excess of 20 hours of continuing education a year - which is not surprising, given the rate of change and the imperative to keep up with it all. And 20 hours a year equates to less than 1% of a work year, so we think it's reasonable to expect a professional to spend 1% of their time keeping up with trends and changes.
Updated 6/3/2019: The renewal fees will stay the same, $135 for AIIM professional members and $150 for non-members.
Reinstatement
We're going to increase the reinstatement fee to $249. This fee only applies to CIPs who let their status lapse and who need to renew after the 3-year renewal period. However, we are also giving serious thought to removing the current 1-year limit, so that a lapsed CIP would be able to renew at any time by submitting CEUs earned within the previous 3 years and paying the renewal fee. We believe that anyone who has passed the CIP exam at least once has demonstrated their "CIP-ness" and should be eligible to reinstate their status, provided they submit the required CEUs and pay the reinstatement fee.
How will this affect current CIPs?
We're targeting the exam to go live this summer, and we'll give more specific dates as we get closer. All changes to the program, as well as the exam itself, will all go live at the same time, and all new CIPs and all renewal cycles that start after that date will be subject to the new requirements. So if you're a CIP now and good through, say, June 5, 2020, you'd have to meet the new requirements starting June 5, 2020 for your renewal cycle ending June 5, 2023. (JW: Updated to reflect change in thinking based on comments below)
We'll be communicating this often - via email, via social media, at the AIIM community, etc.
I welcome your thoughts and comments here or at jwilkins@aiim.org.
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