Benefits of Membership in The Evergreen Chapter, AITP:

• Networking
• Meetings
• The Random Access
• Tech Notes

Networking

The world of the Information Technology Professional is changing at such a rapid pace that one of your best assets is knowing others running in the same race. Membership in AITP puts you in contact with your peers and gives you the opportunity to exchange evaluations of vendors, products, and processes.

Many Professionals seek the company of their peers only when they are searching for a new job. In doing so, they miss a lot of valuable information about industry trends and activities which comes in very helpful during the search

Meetings

Ten times a year, the Evergreen Chapter meets, usually over dinner, to network and to get an update on technology, management practices, and the directions of our industry. These meetings are casually structured, the dress is business or business casual, and non-members and students are welcome.

Topics have included:

• The Year 2000: Pending Disaster or Consultant's Pork Barrel? (June 1996)
• Websites - The Graphics, the Marketing, The Business Uses (May 1996)
• Work-Flow Programming and Lotus NOTES, The Business Uses (April 1996)
• When Delete Doesn't Mean Delete -- Electronic Evidence Recovery (March 1996)
• Training and Education After Graduation -- Keeping Pace (February 1996)
• Development of a Marketing Tool with Beta products -- Nordstrom (January 1996)
• Industry Trends, The Reality and the Hype (December 1995)
• Semantic Object Modeling and its Application to Database Systems (November 1995)
• What are the Skills Needed to Get a Job Today and Keep it Tomorrow (October 1995)
• The Art of Developing Your Leadership Skills (September 1995)
• A Visit with our Canadian Peers (June 1995)
• The State of MultiMedia on the Desktop (May 1995)
• RAID Technology, an Overview (April 1995)
• The Creative Manager (March 1995)
• Web pages, construction, language, and why would you want to... (February 1995)
• But, Really, Is MultiMedia a Useful Business Tool? (January 1995)

Also such topics as: Network Bandwidth Improvement, Data Integrity in a Distributed Environment, RISC on the Desktop, The Human Side of Excellence, Geographic Information Systems, Network Security, Work Force Retraining, Using the Internet, Strategic Systems Planning, and Forging That All-Important Partnership with Your End Users have been presented.

The Board of Directors and the Program Committee endeavor to bring you these timely topics in a manner which neither overwhelms the uninitiated nor bores those already implementing the technology or management skills. We attempt to keep the commercialism at a minimum even when the presentation is made by a vendor of the technology, asking that they prove a use for their niche and letting the questions and answer sessions or post-meeting networking sell their company.

The Random Access

Eleven times a hear, the Evergreen Chapter publishes its award winning newsletter -- The Random Access.

Included in the newsletter are:

• The official record of the actions of the Board of Directors and the Chapter finances
• Listings of the officers and committee chairs
• Calendar and coming event information
• Details about coming meetings and synopsis of past meetings
• News of the members
• Technology updates and "keep an eye on"s
• And that opinionated mystery member -- The Chapter Malcontent

Tech Notes

Seven years ago, the Chapter Board of Directors, in an effort to find something new and tangible which could become a "benefit of membership in the Evergreen Chapter" as opposed to any other chapter, tried publishing the quarterly Tips, Tricks, and Ouches guide -- Tech Notes. The experiment was so successful that six months later, they opened the offer to the other chapters in Region 2. After seven years of publication, in 2002, the Board voted to suspend publication of Tech Notes however, back issues are available.

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