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Meeting Topics and attendance

Meeting Schedule for 2006

Date Meeting Topics are subject to change Speaker RSVPs Attendees
2006 If the topic has a date then the speaker has been booked for that date.      
Jan 20th How to write a good job description/communication and resources. Jill Herrin & Leann Willard 10 20+
Feb 10th Data Warehousing / Best Practices Dan Evans 20+ 40+
Mar 10th Single-Source Documentation for Fun and Profit Beth Hoople 15+ 26
April 7th Recognizing and Eliminating Duplication of Tasks Within an Organization combined with a discussion of IT in International Environments Richard Lombardi 20+ 10
It was a stormy day
May 5th Kool Span - Security is the subject Kool Span 20+ A few
Jun 9th Ten Trends in Security You Need to Know Brian Burns 12 30
July 14th No Meeting was held      
Aug 11th Workforce Investment Network Jimmy Tuggers 4 12
Sept  8th Overcoming Software Design issues Dan Petit 15 30
Oct 13th Canceled   0 0
Nov 10th SQL Server and SOA – Using SQL Server 2005 as a Service Provider Jerry Dixon    
Dec 8th Windows Vista & IE7 which comes with Vista Jon Box with Microsoft    
  Sox – 1 year later      
  Reports Management      
  Marketing and IT      
  Thick Client - where it is going - when is it appropriate/not appropriate      
  What's the hottest technologies in Memphis - who are the players and what are the doing?      
  Company Profile from some larger companies in town      
  Economic/IT trend in Shelby County as a whole - what is happening with the growth of our city/county      

If anyone knows of someone who would like to speak on any of these subjects please have them get in touch with
Bill Hillhouse, Leann Willard, or Jill Herrin at 753-0500
or email Leann or Bill at  Leann@jdresources.com or bhillhouse@jdresources.com

Meeting Schedule for 2004  & 2005

  Meeting Topic RSVPs Attendees
2004      
Sept Refactoring    100+ 60+
Oct  Six Sigma 60+ 40+
Nov RFID 70+ 50+
Dec City of Memphis - Homeland Security 110+ 80+
       
2005      
Jan  14 The Offshoring debate 72 60
Feb  11 Aligning business strategy with your target market 45 40
Mar  11 Project Mgmt Office (PMO)  (Resource Tracking and Bill Back on Projects) 40+ 40+
Apr  22 Business Continuity 40+ 50+
May 13 Remote Support/Virtual Office (pros and cons) 15+ 35+
Jun  10 Outsourcing/Off-shoring (2 – 3 Person Debate with Moderator directing questions) 15+ 20+
Jul     8 Retaining IT Professionals
Preventing: Burnout/Issues/Best Practices		 10+ 34
Aug 12 Sarbanes Oxley 20+ 43
Sep   9 SIM Process 20+ 15+
Oct  14 Emergency Management of the Electronic Levy 20+ 15+
Nov 18 Web Services - Enterprise Architecture 20+ 40+
Dec   9 No meeting this month - Merry Christmas    

Our average attendance for the 1st 4 meetings in 2004 was 57 per meeting.
Our average attendance for 2005 was 36 per meeting.