Announcements

Dear Professional Development Community Members,

As we continue the transition from a council to community, we wanted to provide an update on how we see things working in the future.

Our community has already grown to over 150 ASIS Members.  We hope that each of you will become engaged in helping us both grow and enrich the community, as well as our profession.

We ask for your patience during this transition as we all have a lot to learn in a short time.

Below are a few guiding principles to get us started. 

We are now the Professional Development Community and no longer a council.  All members of the previous council have been transitioned to members of the community.  Our community is open to any ASIS members wishing to get involved.

 The Basic Structure of the Community will be:

• The Leadership Team,
• The Steering Committee (The only standing Committee), and
• The Community at large.

The general flow of the Community will function something like this:

Leadership Team meets Monthly to review, discuss and/or approve project proposals and other issues,

Steering Committee (Led by Community Vice Chairs and Secretary) will meet each two months,

• Each project will be assigned under the broad oversight of one of the two Vice Chairs, Jacob Maenner and Tim Kelly,
• Any Community Member leading a current project will be a Member of the Steering Committee,
• Membership of the Steering Committee is not permanent. Project leads are assigned for the duration of a project,
• Vice Chairs can form Working Groups within the Committee as necessary from other Community Members.

Community At Large:

• Open Community calls will be held quarterly, (NOTE: We anticipate the first call to occur in the 3rd quarter of 2020.)
• Each call we be in a Zoom “Webinar” format, with one or more completed projects presented to the Community,
• Steering Committee will determine presentation schedule based on project deliverables,
• These presentations will be in a presentation and Q&A format, to discuss with community how that project improves/affects the security profession,
• Secretary will moderate discussions by fielding questions from community members and posting them to panelists presenting,
• Calls will end with a few minutes of idea generation questions to community to spur new projects.

The Secretary (Mike Hurst) will continue to run communications for the Community.

All completed projects will be publicized on various forms of social media. You may want to follow us on Twitter @ASIS_PDC and LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/asis-international-pdc,

All Community Members are encouraged to use ASIS Connects to promote and discuss ideas.

 Project Proposals

• We want to encourage all community members to develop project ideas and solutions.
• The Secretary will publish our project submission proposal documents in the next few days.
• Projects will be reviewed and approved by the leadership team and should map to the mission of the community.