MAY 2008

by Ralph Desmond
President ADAPT

May ANNUAL Meeting 2008

We will conduct our Annual Meeting including election of officers for the up coming year.

ADAPT & ITTC Board News
 
See http://www.adapttrain.org/bod_descriptions.htm for ADAPT Board position descriptions

More nominations and volunteers are most welcome!

Nominations - Elected Positions:

1) President:  OPEN

2) Program Director:
            Pat Murphy
            Frank Quirk

3) Finance Director:
            Peter Ward

4) Membership Director:     
            Barry Richmond
            Pat O’Malley
            Sandy King

5) Secretary:
            Fatima Elwakil

6) ITTC Director:
            Jean Raymond

7) Web Director:
            Eric Piatt                         (Webmaster is Lisa Brown)

8) Hospitality Directory:      
            Ralph Desmond

9) Newsletter Editor:
            Guy Perrault

Appointed Positions:

Database:
            Penny Gelb

Publicity:        OPEN

ITTC  Sub-Committee:       
            ITTC 2007’s Committee had 21 members!
            We NEED more volunteers!
            Rick O’Coin
            Deb Dexter
            Sandy King
            Tricia Richardson
            Jay Consiglio
            Ralph Desmond
            Ruth Jacobs

Fall meetings:
            SEPT              Genzyme       Framingham
            OCT               ITTC              TBA
            NOV              VBH               Watertown
            DEC               Holiday Meeting
            JAN                Staples            Framingham

April Meeting at VHB Watertown MA
Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc.

Our thanks go to our excellent host Pat Murphy for a great room and the pizza! We will be returning to VHB next November! Our speaker John Wood  gave a great overview of blended learning

            Speaker:  John Wood, Partner, Overall Domain Concepts (ODC)

            Title Designing and Managing a Blended Learning Environment

Bio: John Wood, a founding partner of ODC, has over 22 years of experience in the design and support of IT systems.  He completed his undergraduate education at the University of North Carolina and did his graduate work at the University of Rhode Island.  His past positions include Regional Systems Engineer for NYNEX and Manager of Information Systems for a large Fortune 500 company.  John currently focuses ODC on providing structured information systems conversion and upgrade management consulting for the legal industry.  John lives in Barrington, RI with his wife and son and, on his days off, he can usually be found somewhere in New England waters sailing “Kestrel”, the family’s Columbia 34.

Speaker Contact Info:

John Wood         
Partner Overall Domain Concepts (ODC)
PO Box 590567,  
Newton, MA 
phone:   866-632-2720   
fax:     401-433-0677              
email:  jwood@odcllc.net

 Program Director: Suzanne Hart with host, Pat Murphy and Speaker, John Wood

Speaker John Wood

Bargain ADAPT Membership!!

Dues next year, starting in September, will be going up $10.

Bargain now until June:

New members:
$40 includes the rest of the 2007-2008 year and 2008-2009!!!

Returning members:

Sign up now for 2008-2009 at 2007-08 prices - $40/yr

Please go to the ADAPT website and submit your 2007 -2008 membership.  It is located under   “Membership – Join ADAPT” on our website.

http://www.adapttrain.org/membership-app.htm

ADAPT is still a bargain at $40 for an individual and $160 for a corporate membership

Checks may be sent to our Treasurer, Peter Ward at:

ADAPT
C/o Peter Ward
9 Brahman Drive
Norton, MA 02766

BUT BE SURE TO FILL OUT THE ONLINE FORM or
MAIL IT SO MEMBERSHIP/DATABASE CAN TRACK IT!
VENDOR LISTINGS

If your company does not current list in our directory – consider supporting ADAPT and your clients through this relatively inexpensive listing

http://www.adapttrain.org/vendors.htm                       Listings
http://www.adapttrain.org/advertising-app.htm         Application

See you at WPI May 8th!

Des                                 Ralph E. Desmond - President
rdes@rdesmond.com          (Please, put ADAPT in the subject field)
508 487-1881                   POB 1626, Provincetown MA 02657