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RENEWAL NOTICES ARE COMING
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Your annual SF DAMA renewal invoices should be emailed to all
individual members and our corporate contact in early August.
We are excited that this year you will have the option of using
PayPal for the payment as well as our usual acceptance of checks
and paper credit card payments. The use of PayPal will greatly
enhance our collection and record-keeping processes, as well
as making it easier for you to pay. The fees are unchanged from
last year: $65 for individuals and $200 for corporate memberships.
PROGRAM DIRECTOR
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We are in fairly good shape right now
with speakers for August, Sept, Oct, and Dec already lined up.
We need someone
for our November speaker and then monthly speakers for Feb through
Nov 2005. So, the job is fairly easy to start, then it gets more
demanding once we get into next year.
Some things to consider if you are interested in becoming the
SFDAMA Program Director.
- Do you have any ideas
on they general types of programs you would like
to
create?
- Do
you
prefer
member
speakers
versus
vendor
presentations?
- How about a vendor
fair, or tool bake-off ?
- Should be have
a theme for a series of meetings or should be just pick
whomever
we can line up?
- Are you able to
attend most of the meetings?
- Are you comfortable
introducing the speaker and
maybe
leading
a door prize drawing
at the end of the meeting?
- Can you stay for
lunch? (We normally buy lunch for the speaker, but the
cost of your
lunch is not
included.
There are several
benefits associated with the position:
- You will get to
work with a great bunch of fellow board members.
- You
get a free dinner at each board meeting (normally in downtown
Oakland,
every 3 months).
- You get free admission
to our DAMA Day.
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
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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
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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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