TD Magazine: Interact and Engage. Use these strategies to elicit engagement during live online training events.

Chris Walker: #5Thoughts - CIP Nouveau

The CIP in 2016 Part 2: Supporting the CIP

In my last post, I reviewed what will be happening with the CIP in 2016 as we revise it. In this post I want to focus on how CIPs can help to ensure the success of the CIP over time.

At last count more than 1,000 people had earned the CIP in just over 4 years time. This is a significant growth rate for a new certification. But those CIPs who took the exam in 2011, or 2012, are already 3 years out of date on current trends in the industry. Like most certifications, we built in a continuing education requirement to ensure that CIPs do remain current on industry and technology developments.

Recertification. The first thing you can do as a CIP to help ensure its growth and success is to stay a CIP - by submitting your CEUs (form can be found here) and the required fee. I recognize that this has been challenging given the uncertain nature of the CIP in recent weeks, but now that we know CIP will continue to move forward, it's important to help build that momentum. The right number of CIPs, after all, is not how many took the exam and passed, but how many are currently sporting the letters and the lapel pin.

Wait - you don't have a lapel pin? Send an email to certification@aiim.org with a mailing address and we'll get one out to you. Wear it to your AIIM chapter events, your ARMA events - wear it to work!

CIP Continuing Education Credits. And we'd like to both raise the visibility of CIP and make it easier to recertify. One way you can help is to get your events preapproved for CIP credits. We award 1.0 credit for each contact hour of educational content, so for the typical AIIM/ARMA chapter meeting, we'd award 1.0-2.0 credits, while an ARMA Spring Seminar might be as much as 6-7 credits per day of the seminar.

Note that these events do not have to be AIIM events, and can even be vendor events provided that the content is a) educational and b) is related to the topical areas of the CIP. But we can't possibly know about all of your events, so send an email to me or to certification@aiim.org and I'll follow up directly.

Job descriptions. One of the more significant metrics for a certification is its inclusion in job postings. If you help to develop such postings, either for information management professionals or those who are significantly impacted by IM issues, please consider adding the CIP to the list of required/preferred qualifications. This helps your organization to understand the value of *your* CIP as well.

Visibility. Of course if all CIPs sported the lapel pin, changed their names on Twitter and LinkedIn to include ", CIP", and put the CIP logo on their business cards, blogs, and websites, that would be awesome, too. :) I know many of you won't or can't, but for those of you who have, thank you!

Have other ideas as to how you are supporting CIP? Let me know with a comment and I'll resocialize them as well.

Don Leuders: Email Records Management Part 1: The Truth

The CIP in 2016 Part 1: Revising the CIP

I've been thinking about the CIP a lot lately. Full disclosure: I run the CIP program for AIIM and helped develop the original version in 2011. AIIM canceled it, and then reinstated it, and while I know much of the back story, I will not share any of that here or yet. Rather, I'd like to focus on a bit on what I and AIIM are doing with regards to updating the CIP and how the community can help.

A certification requires a lot more than simply writing a bunch of questions and setting up a web page. In order to launch an update to the CIP, here's what needs to happen, in fairly short order. 

1. Update the outline and coverage. The original CIP was very...lumpy. Records management and BPM were provided the same weight on the exam as webconferencing and instant messaging. We're also going to align the CIP much more closely to the broad, if somewhat informal, body of knowledge we've already developed at AIIM in the form of our Master Classes and certificate courses.  Once the draft outline is done, we will share it with the broader CIP community for feedback. 

2. Develop new exam questions. We will look to reuse good questions from the existing CIP exam bank where appropriate, but we will also need to revise some of them and will need new questions as well. We're investigating different mechanisms for doing this, but there will be an opportunity for CIPs to participate in item writing and review. 

3. Score the exam. A critical part of the development of a certification is to ensure it is psychometrically valid. This basically means that the exam questions themselves are correct, accurate, not misleading, and comport to industry standards and best practices. This process also leads to the development of the passing score, rather than setting an arbitrary score. There is an art to this; many certifications use the modified Angoff method to set the scoring standards. 

In order to do this we will need people to actually take the exam so we can see how good the items are. Again, more on this to come. 

Every certification goes through a substantially similar process; there is even an ISO standard dedicated to the development of personnel accreditations. This ensures that the certification is developed in a way that is defensible and reliable. 

In my next post I'll discuss some of the other ways CIPs can help push the CIP forward in 2016. 

CMSWire: 2015 Contributors of the Year: Laurence Hart

Lexology: California Attorney General Announces $25 Million Settlement with Comcast - over poor disposal of records and electronic equipment in landfills. H/T: Don Leuders.

John Mancini: CIP Redux

Jeffrey Lewis: Is This Blog Still the Musings of a Certified Information Professional

Allen Podraza: Death of the CIP Certification

Dan Antion: Ding Dong the CIP

Chris Walker: CIP No More - Meh

Fierce Content Management: AIIM changes CIP certification program, miffs members

John Mancini: Some thoughts on the AIIM CIP program

George Parapadakis: The rise and fall of #CIP...by #AIIM

Mark J. Owen: AIIM's CIP...soon to be extinct

Laurence Hart: The CIP, A Lost Opportunity

ARMA opens call for presentations for ARMA 2016

ARMA has opened the call for presentations for the ARMA 2016 conference, scheduled for September 25-27, 2016 in San Antonio, TX. They have posted an overview article on their website at http://www.arma.org/r1/professional-development/education/call-for-proposals which has links to the relevant forms for submitting. Deadline is Feb 8, 2016.

Chris Walker: 2015 - The Year in Review

Chris Walker: ECM as Strategic Platform - Not a Tech Issue. Completely agree.

AIIM16 call for speakers open

The call for speakers is now open for the AIIM16 conference, scheduled for April 26-28 in New Orleans, LA. The deadline to apply is October 30. Details can be found here; here's the direct link to the AIIM16 speaker submission form.

Chris Walker: #ECM isn't Dead

IRMS 2016 call for presentations

The IRMS has opened registration for its 2016 conference, scheduled for 15-17 May, 2016 at the Brighton Hilton Metropole. The conference organizer is also looking for speakers, so if you quality to speak on the topics listed on the program, please contact Reynold Leming.

Chuck's Blog: The Yin and Yang of IT Consolidation

Harmon.ie: The hidden power of Document Sets in SharePoint

NARA briefing on managing electronic messages 9/29

The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) will offer an online briefing on managing electronic messages on Tuesday, September 29 at 1:30 p.m. EDT. To join the briefing:

You do not need to register for this session. Join the session up to 20 minutes before the start time. Space is limited, we encourage you to join the session up to 20 minutes before the scheduled start time.
 Use this information to join:

Join Link:  https://nara.ilinc.com/    Click on the session to join.

location: https://nara.ilinc.com/public

Phone: 1-877-951-9982

passcode:12785286

Chris Walker's 5 Thoughts - Mixed Bag for this week.

Vendor registrations and email accounts

I do a lot of research as part of my training development and delivery. I want to stay abreast of what's going on in my industry, my students' and customers' industries, the ECM/RM/IM industry as a whole, etc.

Many times that means looking to the solution provider community. And many of those require registration, which I think is silly. However, sometimes the resource looks interesting enough that I will go through the rego process anyway.

Which brings me to my rant. An increasing number of these registration pages will not let me register with my main email account because it's a Gmail account. The reason of course is that many of us want the goodies without paying for them - that is, I want to read that white paper without having the vendor a) know who I work for via the email domain and b) contact me. However, I've been on the same Gmail account for over a decade. It is in a very real sense my permanent, primary, best email account because who knows if I'll be at the same employer this time next month? But I know that my Gmail account will work.

So vendors. I understand that you think that content marketing, a paywall, a Hubspot landing page, etc. are ways to qualify me. You're flat-out wrong, but I understand that you think that.  But having me register, and then telling me that my email address is unacceptable, is a great way to ensure that neither of us bothers the other again.

Wired: Google Is Two Billion Lines Of Code - And It's All In One Place.

Registration will open soon for SharePoint Fest Denver 2016, scheduled for March 1-3 at the Colorado Convention Center in downtown Denver. The first 50 people to pre-register using the code "PRESALE16" will save an additional $50.

The Library of Congress' Digital Preservation Blog: Untangling the Knot of CAD Preservation. This is a huge, huge, very big problem without an easy solution, but this post has some very good links to the best of what we have. H/T Chris Halonen from the RECMGMT-L listserv.

George Despres: Polar Opposites: The CRM Exams and Vendor Product Language

Craig Ball: The Virtues of Fielding. In which the esteemed ediscovery expert discusses native vs. non-native production and how the practice of "fielding" tends to affect the process.

SharePoint Community: The Big SharePoint 2016 Resource List

Someone on Twitter saw a post about the new thin Oreos and noted that she was still waiting for the triplestuf Oreos. As someone who has bought the doublestuf Oreos, opened them up, and threw away the extra cookies to make a quadstuf Oreo, I had to weigh in. And I was pretty sure I remembered hand-sized oreos from maybe the late 80s-early 90s. Not sure if these are the same thing, but presented for your pleasure: The "Big Stuf Oreo". And see this commercial.

Lexology: Social media e-discovery: are your Facebook posts discoverable in civil litigation? Hint: yes, if it would otherwise be discoverable in any other format. Good restatement of that with some examples for and against.

Benjamin Niaulin: SharePoint Content Types, Site Columns or Columns. Great refresher about the different ways to create columns (metadata fields) in SharePoint and the pros & cons of each.

Mountain Goat Software: Quickly Help Users Identify Their Needs. This is a great lightweight approach to requirements that I plan to start incorporating into my training workshops.

Melinda Morales: Illustrating SharePoint Cooperative Governance - But Pretty! Very well-done infographic on the roles & responsibilities needed for effective SP governance.

SharePoint Community: The SharePoint Maturity Model with Expert Melinda Morales. Great interview and filled with a number of links I'm going to check out and post here if warranted.

Just as an aside, I try to link to everything I see http://www.buckleyplanet.com/Christian Buckley do. Besides the fact that he's clearly wicked smart, I have yet to see him do something - blog post, interview, webinar, whatever - that isn't 100% educational. You'd never know he was a vendor based on his content. Vendors of all stripes, whether products, services, integrators, could learn a lot from his approach.

Chuck's Blog: The Trivialization of Enterprise IT. Chuck is one of the good guys and has been doing this stuff for a long time. Via Simon Woodford.

Workboard: Interesting article/infographic describing a communication framework for change agents.

Parascript issues "Ultimate Document Challenge 2015".

Parascript, the industry innovator in advanced data location, extraction and classification, is opening nominations for businesses to qualify for the ‘Ultimate Document Challenge’. Parascript will review submissions and if one meets the qualifications identified by the challenge, that business will be selected to have its information governance challenge solved at no cost. The challenge is now open for entry from Tuesday, July 21 - Friday, October 2, 2015.

Details available at http://www.parascript.com/go/2015-ultimate-document-challenge/. I think it's a fascinating approach.

H/T Priscilla Emery.

IT Unity: SharePoint Governance is a Team Sport

Barbara Reed for Image & Data Manager Magazine: Navigating the Shoals of ISO Standards. Provides a detailed explanation of the current status of the ISO 15489 update.

Chris Walker has relaunched his website and blog at http://www.phigsimc.com and http://phigsimc.com/blog/ respectively.

Really well-done parody of Gotye's Somebody That I Used to Know.

Master Your Muscles: Best Leg Exercises. H/T: Lifehacker.

Doculabs: Fixing Your Shared Drive Problem (originally appeared on CMSWire).

Box introduces new add-on service, "Box Governance".