CM Professionals Announces Management Committee and Executive Director

CM Professionals Announces Management Committee and Executive Director 

Silver Springs, MD, USA, 11 May 2005 -- Content Management Professionals (CM
Pros), the international content management community of practice, today
announced the appointment of its Management Committee and new Executive
Director, reinforcing the organization's increasing relevance to the content
management discipline. 

Chartered with tactical responsibility for achieving the organization's
goals, CM Pros Management Committee is:

* Patricia Kelley, content architect at Allstate Insurance - Director of
Marketing 
* Erik Hartman, president of Netherlands-based Hartman Communicatie BV -
Director of Member Relations 
* Glen Secor, senior consultant and legal analyst with The Gilbane Report -
Legal Advisor 
* Hilary Marsh, president of strategic online consultancy Content Company
Inc. - Director of Communications 

"By serving as our day-to-day team, CM Pros Management Committee will ensure
the delivery and expansion of member value," remarked Ann Rockley, President
of the CM Pros Board of Directors and The Rockley Group Inc. "We are
thrilled to have such an experienced and talented team driving our many
initiatives."

In a move signaling CM Pros continuing expansion, CM Pros also announced
that Laura Walker -- who as executive director of OASIS led that consortium
to the forefront of e-business standards -- has been appointed CM Pros
Executive Director. The executive director position was previously held by
industry luminary and CM Pros cofounder Bob Doyle, who becomes the
organization's Technology Advisor, continuing to support and enable its
member and public communication infrastructures. 

"With her extensive experience in the content management industry and a
professional history that ranges from graphic design to technology product
marketing and e-business leadership for the Federal Reserve, Walker is
uniquely qualified to represent the diverse membership of the organization,"
Doyle affirmed. "Laura was selected from a strong set of applicants and
particularly impressed the Board with the clarity of her vision for our
future." 

As the organization's primary link to members and the public, the executive
director translates the CM Pros mission and strategic plan into action.
"Readily accessible and well-structured information is a critical success
factor in every contemporary business context," declared Walker. "Because CM
Pros embraces all types of content management professionals - from content
authors and modelers to technologists and project directors - and focuses on
a broad range of information sharing, best practices and educational
programs, I am delighted to contribute to furthering CM Pros' overarching
mission to advance content management excellence." 

About Content Management Professionals
Founded in 2004, CM Pros -- which has grown from a founding group of 30
content management experts to more than 375 members worldwide -- provides
information, expertise and support to content management professionals and
the organizations they serve. Through peer-to-peer interchange, the
collaborative development of best practices, a series of educational events,
and definitive knowledge resources such as a content management glossary and
resource library, the organization fosters a better public understanding of
this critically important discipline. On the Web at www.cmprofessionals.org.

-- 
Bob Doyle
Editor In Chief, CMS Review - http://www.cmsreview.com
Technology Adviser, CM Pros - http://www.cmprofessionals.org
CEO, skyBuilders - http://www.skybuilders.com
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