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In this issue Top News - Trident United Way (urgent need) - Annual Event PMI Community - April PMI meeting - C of C PM Forum PM Humor And More... - Featured Web Page
PMI Charleston Chapter Officers Brandon Manus President Helene Topping Vice President Chuck Kramer VP of Finance Stacy Brogden VP Administration Dickie Best VP Marketing Jim Harmon VP Mem Programs Stacy Mack VP Comm/Web Mgt. Tim Mulcare VP of Education Hannah Bradley VP Membership
About our members
199 Chapter Members 96 PMPs 75 Companies Represented
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Top News
Trident United Way Seeking Project Coordinators
** URGENT NEED **
At the beginning of 2007 the Chapter stated an interest in providing community service. At our last Chapter meeting, we spoke to a need that the Trident United Way has in coordinating the activities for Youth Day, Saturday April 21, 2007 (9:00am - 2:00pm).
Our contact at TUW, Sally Burnett recently asked that we share the attached list of projects with our group to see if we have any one who can connect with an agency by helping to complete these projects. If you have an interest, Sally would like to let the agency know and "introduce" the PMI associate to them. Her contact information follows:
Sally Burnett Annual Event Committee We are looking to expand our very successful annual event and need your help. This whole day event will need a lot of support in areas like meeting logistics, planning, vendor relations and scheduling speakers. Currently, we are planning to conduct our annual event in October, 2007. Please contact Brandon Manus if interested. PMI Community
PMI Charleston presents Mr. Bill Deck
Join us for networking with your fellow PMI colleagues and an opportunity to listen to Bill Deck discuss technology used in the recovery after the events of September 11, 2001. The meeting will be on April 19 from 11:30am to 1:00pm at Carraba's restaurant in North Charleston.
To RSVP for the event or learn more visit evite!
College of Charleston presents Dr. John Surak
Everyone is welcome on April 18th to come to the College of Charleston's Beatty Center to hear Dr. John Surak, speak on quality. John was a judge of the Baldridge Awards for four years. He travels the world (currently in Malaysia) helping organizations deal with quality issues and project management.
Free admission
5:30-6:30PM, Wednesday,
April 18th
Wachovia Auditorium
The Beatty Center (School of
Business & Economics)
9 Liberty Street, College of
Charleston
The easiest way to get to
the Beatty Center is park at the Wentworth Street Garage
in downtown Charleston.
If you have any questions or
need assistance with directions, you can contact Steve
Mauldin at 843.327.1213.
PM Humor
A tourist walked into a pet shop and was looking at the animals on display. While he was there, another customer walked in and said to the shopkeeper, "I'll have a C monkey please." The shopkeeper nodded, went over to a cage at the side of the shop and took out a monkey. He fitted a collar and leash, handed it to the customer, saying, "That'll be $5,000." The customer paid and walked out with his monkey.
Startled, the tourist went over to the shopkeeper and said, "That was a very expensive monkey. Most of them are only a few hundred dollars. Why did it cost so much?" The shopkeeper answered, "Ah, that monkey can program in C - very fast, tight code, no bugs, well worth the money."
The tourist looked at a monkey in another cage. "Hey, that one's even more expensive! $10,000! What does it do?"
"Oh, that one's a C++ monkey; it can manage object-oriented programming, Visual C++, even some Java. All the really useful stuff," said the shopkeeper.
The tourist looked around for a little longer and saw a third monkey in a cage of its own. The price tag around its neck read $50,000. The tourist gasped to the shopkeeper, "That one costs more than all the others put together! What on earth does it do?" The shopkeeper replied, "Well, I haven't actually seen it do anything, but it says it's a project manager".
And More… Featured Web Page We recently published a new web site design including added content. Each newsletter we will feature a new page of the web site. This month, we feature a compilation of web links that you should find useful in your research on any PM topic.
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