During a break between projects I attended the Masters Program with AIIM up in Toronto, Ontario. My primary reason for attendance was to calibrate what I've been doing for many years now, with a global associations' opinions and practices to ensure I'm inline with internationally recognized leaders in Enterprise Content Management. I'm happy to say it was an excellent experience, and apparently I'm right on track!

I highly recommend their courses to anyone who is beginning, restoring, or investigating an Enterprise Content Management effort. Excellent teachers, great subject matter covering a huge amount of information in a very elegant manner, and hey some of the courses are in Toronto, and you can hit Niagra Falls helicopter tours while you're in town!

Association of Images and Information Management (AIIM)
Master Certificate Program Enterprise Content Management
Toronto, Ontario Canada
www.aiim.org
April 2009 – expected August 2009 

Company Profile: As a neutral and unbiased source of information, AIIM is the community that provides education, research, and best practices to help organizations find, control, and optimize their information.

For over 60 years, AIIM has been the leading non-profit organization focused on helping users to understand the challenges associated with managing documents, content, records, and business processes. AIIM was founded in 1943 as the National Microfilm Association and later became the Association for Information and Image Management. AIIM is also known as the enterprise content management (ECM) association.

AIIM is international in scope, independent, and implementation-focused. As the industry's intermediary, AIIM represents the entire industry - including users, suppliers, and the channel.

TITLE = Master Certificate Candidate for Master of Enterprise Content Management confirmed expert in lifecycle enterprise content and intelligence management systems, expert in implementation of solution systems, expert in leading Commercial Off the Shelf and Open Source vendor solution offerings.

Assignments: Comprehensive study of all tools and methodologies, and best practices related to the capturing, managing, storing, preserving, and delivering all content and intelligence to any user in any environment.  A Masters Thesis written after study is used to attain certification of Masters ECM3 – ETA August 2009.