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Happy holidays
everyone.
This might be a
good time to look back at what we did in 2004 and take a peek
at some of our 2005 plans.
MEETING
LOCATIONS
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We will continue to have our meeting at members’ offices.
This saves us a lot of money and it allows some of the meetings
to be conducted in different geographical areas. Speaking of
different areas, we are hoping to spread the meetings between
downtown SF, Oakland, the east bay, and the peninsula.
DAMA
DAY
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This year’s DAMA Day was another
great success. The speakers were all very informative, we had a
great audience, the food was good, and it was nice to renew old
acquaintances and to make new ones. I would like to thank Wendy
Wood and her helpers for coordinating this event. It takes a lot
of time and effort to plan and execute DAMA Day. I would also like
to thank our vendor sponsors. Their presence supplemented the diversity
of the day and their financial contributions helped defray some
of the expenses. Please consider these vendors if you are in the
market for any of the products and services that they offer.
MEMBERSHIP
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Our paid membership has grown quite a bit in 2004.
This is a nice reversal of a trend of diminishing membership.
MONTHLY
MEETING TOPICS
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As you may know, we were unable to fill
the Program Director position this year. As a result, we had
to rely on more vendor
presentations than we normally do.
For 2005, the board
has decided to focus our monthly topics on a “back to basics” theme.
We are soliciting presentations from our membership and are
planning on having some general discussions
on such things as standards and tool selection.
Also, we
have experienced that our July and September meeting are consistently
poorly attended because of the proximity to
July 4 and to Labor Day. We are therefore going to skip those
months next yeaR.
2004-
2005 BOARD ELECTIONS
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As you may know, we were unable to fill
the Program Director position this year. As a result, we had to
rely on more vendor presentations than we normally do.
We
will be having our annual elections at the March meeting. The
board member term is from April through March. This year we have
several board openings:
President:
- Act as
coordination point for activities of all board members
- Preside
over monthly chapter meetings
- Open
and close meeting
- Present
monthly business
- Schedule
and preside over chapter board meetings
- Determine
and delegate special projects such as:
- Surveys
- Consultant
Directory
- Membership
Profile
- DAMA
brochure
- Serve
as a clearinghouse for outside requests
- Represent
chapter to DAMA International
- Provide
input to monthly newsletter when appropriate
Program Director:
- Arranges
for speakers and discussion participants.
- Ensures
that the speakers have details of the meeting location and
of the
meeting agenda.
- (Normally,)
introduces the speaker and presents the speaker with a small
gift at the end of the program.
Also hosts a lunch after the program.
- Works
with DAMA International in coordinating speaker tours.
Membership
Director:
Distributes
invoices for annual membership renewals. Tracks payments
and sends out timely delinquent
notices.
- Provides
periodic membership statistics to the board.
- Maintains
the chapter membership database (skills with Microsoft Access
will be helpful here).
- Keeps
DAMA International’s membership database
updated with SF DAMA changes.
- Actively
seeks new corporate and individual memberships.
- Replies
to all requests for information about DAMA memberships
Communications
Director:
- Prepares
and publishes the monthly newsletter
- Communicates
special announcements to the membership, such as DAMA Day
brochures
- Maintains
the SFDAMA.org web site
- Manages
enhancements to the chapter web site (the director may make
the changes directly or may
coordinate knowledgeable volunteers who change
the site)
Treasurer:
- Set-up
and maintain DAMA accounts
- Prepare
annual budget and regular budget reports
- Prepare
regular Profit and Loss statements
- Reimburse
monthly meeting host for refreshments
- Reimburse
members for expenses
- Pay annual
DAMA International chapter fees
Please contact me if you are interested in any of these positions or if you
would like to discuss what the jobs entail. I encourage everyone to consider
becoming a board member: the work is interesting, rewarding, and you get
to work with some really great people.
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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