Exciting Times for the MSSIG!
These
past few months have been an exciting time for the Marketing & Sales
SIG.
In April, the MetSIG's 2008 Global Online Congress, in which we actively participated, was a great success for them, and for our members. Please review those archived webinars if you didn't get a chance to catch the live events. Also, If you haven't yet bought Steve Rollins' "Project Portfolio and the PMO", we strongly encourage you to do so. As the MetSIG's Chair, Steve has made some amazing contributions to both his SIG and to the industry as a whole.
May was particularly eventful in that we elected three new members to our board. I'd therefore, like to take this opportunity to welcome these fine additions to our team. I know their volunteer contributions will be greatly appreciated and immediately felt by all. May also marked the beginning of our new website launch, which should be fully functional, tweaked and completed by the beginning of June.
And finally, please be sure to complete our online survey about "Marketing Operations and the PMO." There's growing evidence that the principles of project, program and portfolio management are merging with marketing operations to form a "new improved" PMO, but we'd like to hear from our membership, directly, about this fascinating trend before jumping to any conclusions. At the end of the survey is an opportunity for "comments" which we strongly encourage - negative or positive.
On behalf of our growing board and membership, I thank you for your valuable attention and continued support!
Dave Hutchinson, PMP
Chair, MSSIG
Welcome New MSSIG Board of Directors
After completing the MSSIG election process, it gives us great pleasure to announce the following, new, MSSIG board members:
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| Naftali Goldsmith is the Director of Interactive Marketing at United Jewish Communities, a national nonprofit associated with 155 local agencies across North America. He is the product manager of a proprietary web publishing and online fundraising system, and initiates progressive web marketing campaigns using interactive content and social media. Previously, Naftali was the director of web services at Thinking Craft, a direct response marketing consultancy based in Florida, where he headed up content development and web media projects. He has been doing strategic web consulting and project management since the late 1990's both in the private and nonprofit sectors. He has advanced degree training from Columbia Teachers College in education and technology. | |
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George Walker is currently employed by Miller Brewing Company, Milwaukee, WI as a Manager, Protect & Miller Lite Content in the Marketing Project Management Office. George has been a member of the Project Management Institute, since May 2003. He currently is serving his fourth year as Vice President- Outreach for the Southeastern Wisconsin Chapter. |
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Danny's bio will be available soon on the Board web page. |
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Congratulations
new board members!
Earlier this month, Wal-Mart reached out to the MSSIG in search of Project Management Professionals (PMPs) with marketing experience. Kelley Troia, the Director of Marketing Operations at Wal-Mart, was the one who contacted us since “it was so hard finding” these PMPs. Naturally, we were all too happy to help. View the Job Alert.
For many of us, this was a total vindication of our SIG’s position that the heretofore separate worlds of marketing and project management can and must come together in an effort to “align” the enterprise around customers - and as it now appears - under the emerging disciplines of Marketing Operations. Dave Hutchinson has even gone so far as to suggest that the PMO should be rebranded as the “Performance Marketing Office” to help accelerate this inevitable and overdue merger between strategy and execution. See Rebranding the PMO.
The
MSSIG has designed
a survey to help gauge our members’ interest and opinions on
the topic of Marketing Operations and how it relates to the field
of applied project management.
Take the survey now!
MSSIG Launches Redesigned Web Site
To
better serve our members, the MSSIG recently launched a redesigned web
site. We are in the process of adding additional content to the web
site site, including populating the "Members Only" area which
will be operational soon. If you have suggestions for additions or enhancements to the web site, please send them to us, administrator@pmimssig.org.
Project Management Resource Group to Hold 1st Annual
Women In Project Management Conference
Carol Evans - Keynote Speaker
President and CEO, Working Mother Media and Working Mother Magazine
June 12-13, 2008 • 8 AM - 5 PM
The Columbus Athenaeum
32 North 4th Street • Columbus, OH
7.5 PDUs Per Day
Register online
| SPECIAL
PRICING FOR PMI SIGs! The early-bird pricing has been extended for PMI SIG's until June 1. When registering please make sure to have the PMI SIG's name in the company name to receive this extended pricing. Even though the registration form will not give you the option for the discounted pricing, your registration will be processed with the discount. |