Program Director Opening
The SF DAMA Board still has an opening for the Program Director
position. The duties of this position include:
· Arrange speakers for monthly meetings
· Prepare and send invitation and thank-you notes to speakers for
monthly meetings
· Take the speakers to lunch after monthly meetings
· Provide input about speaker topics and backgrounds to Communications
Director
· Introduce speakers at monthly meetings
· Provide list of planned speakers for 2-4 months in advance
· Solicit membership for ideas on meeting agendas and speakers
This is a very important and interesting job. If you feel that
the job is too time-consuming, you can partner with another
person and share the duties. This is what we did last year. Please contact
me if you are even slightly interested. We will not let you
fail. DAMA International Symposium
The 2004 DAMAi Symposium will be in Los Angeles the first week
of May. I highly encourage attendance at this event. This
is the biggest and most comprehensive conference dedicated to
our profession. The things that you learn from the classes,
presentations, and from networking are invaluable. I quite
often refer to the conference proceedings when researching
data-related topics. I will be attending the semiannual Presidents Council
meeting at the symposium. This is a meeting of all of the chapter
presidents
where we share topics of common interest. This year the focus
will be on the new DAMA International Membership database and
on the evolution of DAMAi from a “chapter-centric” to
a “member-centric” organization.
OTHER RESOURCES
-
Business
Intelligence Tutorial by IBM - This tutorial provides
an end-to-end guide for typical business intelligence tasks.
It has two
main sections: data warehousing and multidimensional data analysis.
- DM
Review magazine - http://www.dmrview.com
- DAMA
International - http://www.dama.org
- Data
Administration Newsletter - http://www.tdan.com
- Data
Modeling - http://www.datamodel.org
- Data
Warehousing - http://www.datawarehousing.com
-
General data
administration discussion group that have over 500
members. There are hundreds of topics available for browsing or you can
start your own thread. - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dm-discusss
-
Modeling tool
specific discussion groups along with a generic data
modeling discussion area. - http://www.InfoAdvisors.com/userlists.htm
-
Real-World
Decision Support (TWDS) Newsletter --
http://www.ewsolutions.com/Newsletter.asp
- Ron
Ross' Business Rules Journal - http://www.brcommunity.com -
SACRAMENTO
VALLEY DAMA CHAPTER - http://www.damasac.org
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