Mid-Atlantic Region News

JuLY 2006

by Tammy P. Wheeler, Region Manager

Congratulations go out to the Liberty Bell Chapter for hosting a wonderful and educational 2006 Mid-Atlantic Region Conference.  This year’s leadership conference was held June 8-10 at the Historic Holiday Inn in Philadelphia.  We had an excellent turnout with a total of 35 people including attendees and speakers.  We had seven vendor sponsors.  To all of our vendor sponsors who helped make our conference a success we say Thank You!

Here are some of the highlights from the conference. To kick it off our keynote session on Electronic –Changes, Trends and Best Practices was presented by Julie Gable of Gable Consulting, LLC.  Liberty Bell chapter members Ray Davis and Janice Raphael presented a side of the Identity Theft issue that few of us think about, how do you protect your company’s client’s information from being stolen or misused, a very informative session.  We were fortunate to have ARMA International President Elect Susan McKinney with us for the weekend.  She spoke on ARMA Board of Directors:  Moving Forward and the Competency Project.  Also from ARMA International the Director of Member Services, Tom Killam did a presentation about ARMA International Headquarters Resources.  From our own region Deborah Marshall gave an update on the ARMA Educational Foundation.  To everyone’s surprise our Region Webmaster; David Noack premiered the new Mid-Atlantic region web site during the conference.  On behalf of the Region, thank you David!

Needless to say it was a GREAT event! The Liberty Bell Chapter was most gracious and made the big city of Philadelphia seem like our hometown.  From the stroll down Old Elfreths Alley with President Pete Casey to walking tours of the historic district we felt like we had seen it all.  Thank you Pete!  You can check out and download some pictures of the conference and events around town at the ARMA NOVA website, http://www.armamar.org/nova/Gallery/photo_gallery.htm.

Have a great summer!

Tammy Wheeler

Manager, ARMA Mid-Atlantic Region