[australia] Australian representative?

[David Warwick]

Hi Marius and fellow list members,

As some of you may remember, Peter Meyer nominated at last year's  
elections and narrowly missed appointment to the Board. Peter has  
decided not to stand again this year. I agree with Marius that we  
should support an Australian candidate and I will nominate myself for  
the position unless someone else in the Australia community wishes to  
nominate – we should rally our support behind a single candidate.  
Please send and email to the list ASAP if you would like to nominate  
yourself so that we can come to some joint decision.

If I nominate, I am going to propose some dramatic changes to CM Pros.
(1) I believe 5 Board members is insufficient for all the portfolios  
within an organisation that now has more than 1,000 members spread  
around the world.
(2) I believe the current method of completely replacing the board  
every two years does not offer suitable continuity and does not  
encourage driven and passionate board members to commit for the long- 
term.
(3) I think that key infrastructure such as the website and email  
lists should have been handled better, with more consultation and  
more member input and have involved the same due diligence that we  
would expect client organisations to follow in their selection of CMS.
(4) I am going to push for a change in the Charter for Regional  
Communities to allow local branch infrastructure (website / mail- 
lists) as well as some minor changes that will better allow us to run  
our meetings and this years conference.

Please let me know if you have any other concerns or items that you  
would like taken to the parent organisation.

We only have around 30 paid CM Pros members (out of 1000) in  
Australia, even though we have over 160 mail list participants, so it  
will be an uphill battle to win a seat on the Board. Nothing like a  
tough battle to start the New Year.

Cheers and best wishes for 2007,

David Warwick
Co-Chair
CM Pros Australia Community





On 09/01/2007, at 8:29 AM, Marius Coomans wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I notice that CMPros are are about to have an election and that  
> nominations are called for. It would be good to have an Australian  
> on the board. James? David?
>
> http://www.cmprofessionals.org/about-cm-pros/organization/elections
>
> Marius Coomans
> In case anyone is surprised about my new email address:
> http://activeweb.com.au/weblog/archives/2007/01/a_new_year_a_ne.html
> Mobile: +61 411 248 617
>
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