September Chapter Meeting

Meeting Date

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Meeting Agenda

Member Mingle, Dinner and Program
5:00 pm - 5:30 pm Member Mingle
5:30 pm - 6:00 pm Registration
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Dinner, Business Meeting
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Program

Meeting Location

La Quinta Inn
Tacoma, WA

Program Descriptions:

Member Mingle

To kick off our Chapter year we are hosting a little get together! We hope you will come a little earlier and enjoy some light appitizers while you catch up with your fellow chapter members. The Member Mingle will be from 5:00-5:30pm.


"GARP - Just the Basics Please"

Speaker: Ember D. Krumwied, CRM

The evening program will be a presentation on ARMA International's recently published Generally Accepted Recordkeeping Principles (GARP). Chapter member, and Chairman of the Board, Ember Krumwied, CRM, will be presenting a condensed version of her GARP presentation given at last year's Region Conference.

This presentation will give an overview of GARP and provide some tools for the application of the principles in evaluating your records and information management programs. This presentation will also include an overview of the programs that will be offered in the 2010-2011 chapter year.


Speaker Bio: Ember D. Krumwied, CRM is the Corporate Records Manager for Investco Financial Corporation. She has been in the records industry for over 10 years, and has been a Puget Sound Chapter member since 2000. She is a Certified Records Manager (CRM) and a Certified Paralegal. She was the project lead for the creation of the ARMA International Guideline Evaluating and Mitigating Information Risks and is co-authoring a chapter in a soon to be published international textbook on Risk Management with Vicki Lemuex, CRM.

September Issue of Soundings has been posted!

The September issue of the Puget Sound Chapter’s newsletter Soundings has been posted on the chapter website and can be accessed by logging onto http://www.pugetsoundarma.org/ and clicking the link for Soundings under the Members Lounge. You will need the chapter user name and password to access this file. Contact the webmaster if you have lost this information.
Here are some newsletter highlights!

• Chapter Meeting – Our September meeting will be held on Wednesday, September 8, 2010. It is a dinner program at the La Quinta Inn in Tacoma with a Member Mingle from 5-5:30pm.
• Congratulations to Andrew Penta for receiving his CRM designation in May 2010.
• Program Fee Notice - We will no longer be charging $10.00 for the program-only portion of our meetings, we will continue to give receipts for those who wish to seek reimbursement for the program-only portion.

PS ARMA Blog Back Online

We're back! We have worked out our technical difficulties and have our blog site back up and running. We hope you will check back often to find out the latest information about chapter events and happenings!