Winning foursome (low net score), Longest drive, Closest to the pin, Raffles & some surprises!
Come one, come all, to the Second Annual WMCPA and OMNI User Golf Outing. Come out and spend the day with your peers. Worried about your score? Don't, the scramble format will guarantee fun for all! Don't miss this event! Get a foursome together or sign up yourself, but act now, we have a limited number of openings.
Please register by July 15, 2011.
SPONSORS: In addition to joining us for a fun day on the greens, we are looking for sponsors to donate prizes for a raffle, bag stuffers, or sponsor holes on the course. Prizes will be raffled prior to our dinner meeting. For a $150 donation, your company will be hosting a contest on a hole that rewards the golfer with a $50 gift certificate. Your company name and logo will be displayed at the hole. For a $75 donation, your company name and logo will be displayed at the hole with no contest. WMCPA and OMNI will post sponsor's logos, and links on our web sites.
Thank you to the following organizations for sponsoring the 2011 WMCPA-OMNI Golf Outing:
The July 21st Agenda
Golf starts at 9:30 AM sharp.
Lunch is on your own, not included in the price.
Small awards presentation based upon turned in scores.
4:00 PM Cash bar and awards, prior to dinner.
5:00 PM Dinner, followed by Speaker.
This is a GREAT opportunity to bring your director or CIO to a user group meeting that will help them understand the direction that this platform is headed and, at the same time, show them who is the master on the golf course. It is also is a perfect time to meet with other IBM i professionals.
Signing up is easy!Just click the "Register Now" link above, register and pay online! You can sign-up as a foursome to compete with other companies or you can sign-up individually. If you sign-up individually you will be assigned to a foursome. Cathy Kramer (
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) will be making these individual assignments... contact her for any special assignments.
You don't have to be a member of either user group for this special price! Take a day and learn about these two IBM i User groups... you won't be disappointed.
Also at this event, WMCPA and Omni have partnered with COMMON to offer the COMMON Certification testing. This is a great opportunity to gain a valuable certification that will help advance yourself and your career while enjoying a good time with fellow IBM i professionals. Find out all of the details on the COMMON Certification Information page.
Session 5:00 PM
Don Bussell
Keys to being worth your Paycheck
Since the emergence of computer technology a premium has been placed on technical experience and technical knowledge. Technical specialization generally has yielded compensation often equal to or higher than their management counterparts. 90% of IT professionals chose the IT field because of their desire to achieve technical excellence in one or many technical disciplines. The typical IT Professional is very bright, highly focused, and loves the definitive nature of technical problems that often are resolved in black and white terms.
The IT world has dramatically changed for the US technical professional. Due to the Global Economy, the portability of technical solutions and communications that create virtual environments, the US IT Professional is having his/her skills devalued to rates paid to technical talent from less developed nations. Growing value is being given to team skills, collaboration skills and leadership skills. The first component to be faced by any IT Professional is whether the new IT World is one they wish to embrace and second what steps are necessary for them to grow their personal value in this new world of IT.
Don Bussell is currently the president of WebSmart-USA. Don has exchanges of ideas on IT issues with more than 100 different CIO's and IT leaders in the Chicago area annually. In addition, he facilitates over 20 rountable discussions of current IT issues, with several hundred IT Professionals each year. Don is an active leader in Chicago IT association activities for SIM and AITP, as well as conducting open monthly roundtable discussions limited to CIO's only. View Don's full biography to learn more.
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