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                     NEWS FROM NATIONAL
                      FEBRUARY 1, 1996

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                  CHANGE OF VICE PRESIDENT

On January 20, 1996 Dorothy Josephson, I.S.P. resigned from her
position as Vice President on the CIPS National Board. Dorothy
expressed her sincere regret at not being able to complete her
term.

At the January 21 Board Meeting George Boynton, the CIPS
Montreal President, was elected Vice President.

The CIPS National Office would like to thank Dorothy for all her
hard work and while we regret not being able to serve her in the
role of President, we extend a warm welcome and a hearty "Salut!"
to George, our new CIPS Vice President.

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                 CALL FOR BOARD NOMINATIONS

A call for nominations for election to the CIPS National Board of
Directors will be included in the February National mailing.
Nominations are to be returned to the National Office by March 13,
1996 and they must include the signatures of five active, regular
CIPS members.

Listed below are the positions which become vacant this year
along the nominees received to date.

* Vice President: no nominations as of yet
Nominees for the position of Vice President must have previous
Board experience or Board approval. Interested candidates for the
position of VP should email Larry Sampson, I.S.P., Past President
at las@mtt.ca

* Directors-At-Large (2 Positions): Violet Sadler, I.S.P. - Toronto
and Richard Thompson, I.S.P. - Edmonton

* Pacific Regional Director: Tony Smith - Victoria

* Alberta Regional Director: Ken Chapman, I.S.P. - Calgary

* South Western Ontario Regional Director: John Porr, I.S.P. -
Grand Valley

* Toronto Regional Director: David Waterfield, I.S.P.

* Quebec Regional Director: no nominations as of yet

* Atlantic Regional Director: Mike MacDonald, I.S.P. - Fredericton

Complete descriptions of Board position roles and responsibilities
will be sent to all members in the upcoming national mailing.

If an election is to be held, an official ballot will be mailed to you by
March 29, 1996.

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                 CIPS SALUTES KELLY GOTLIEB

At the recent January Board meetings CIPS honoured Kelly
Gotlieb, CIPS' founding father, for his recent distinction of
becoming an Order of Canada recipient.

CIPS will be providing Kelly with Internet access for his home and
will also be creating and hosting the "Kelly" page on the CIPS
National website.

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               CIPS GETS A NEW INTERNET PLUG

On January 26, the CIPS National Office obtained a new Internet
access provider. Interlog Internet Services now provides the CIPS
National Office with our Internet connection.

We would also like to apologize again to all those who have
experienced difficulties reaching us over the past few months. Our
fingers are now crossed that our new 28.8 dedicated line will
provide a dependable connection between the National Office, the
membership and all those potential members!

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        TRAINING OVER THE INTERNET ... Interested?
               Then go ahead and TAKE-A-PEEK!

If you have a personal computer and access to the Internet's
WWW, then here is an opportunity for you to Take-a-Peek at a
new Distance Learning vehicle that uses the Internet to deliver
training. You can now benefit from over 20 hours of technical
training in the comfort of your office or your home!

Through a new and innovative service known as Mentys - The
Internet Computer Institute, you can now access technology
training specifically intended for IT professionals, when you want
and from where you want.

Born of an initiative between the Software Human Resource
Council and Digital Equipment of Canada, and supported by CIPS
National, the Mentys service has been successfully introduced as a
pilot to selected Canadian organizations.

This introductory version of Mentys is now available to all
Canadian IT professionals through a special Take-a-Peek offer.

What does it cost? $89 per registration (before March 31st,
1996)or $129 per registration (from April 1st,1996)

What courses are offered?  C++ Programming,  Advanced C++
Programming,  Object Oriented Analysis

What does it give you? Access to Mentys 24 hours a day, 7 days a
week from now until the end of June 1996.

For complete program details and course descriptions, give us a
call at 1-800-465-2226 or drop us a line at
mentys@mqo.mts.dec.com

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                   NEW SECTION HOMEPAGES

The CIPS National website welcomes the two newest Section links:
CIPS North Bay and CIPS Montreal. The CIPS Montreal webpages
are completely bilingual.

CIPS North Bay can be reached at http://www.cips.ca/northbay/;
CIPS Montreal can be reached at
http://www.panorama.net/acimontreal/.

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                      HAVE YOU HEARD?

* The 1996 CIPS National Membership Campaign started on
February 1. Campaign webpages can be found at
http://www.cips.ca/camp96.htm. Watch the February National
mailing for the arrival of  your Recruiting Kit with all the details,
rules and, most importantly, prize descriptions!

* The CIPS National Homepage is now linked to the website of
Leue McCabe Stevenson, CIPS insurance broker at
http://www.LMS.ca/lms/

* 1/4 of our membership have forwarded their email addresses to
the National Office

* Eight CIPS members have been a part of the Society for 30-plus
consecutive years

* Fifty-eight members have celebrated their twenty-five consecutive
year anniversary

* REMINDER! REMINDER! REMINDER! The nomination deadline
for the 1996 CIPS Achievement Awards is February 23. Contact
Michele at the National Office for nomination forms, by phone (416)
593-4040, by email at michele@cips.ca or download the
nomination form from the CIPS National FTP site at
ftp://cips.ca/awards/nominat.txt

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   MANAGING THE INFORMATION TRANSFORMATION EFFECTIVELY:
                 Management Seminar

The 1996 M.I.T.E. course will be held June 2-7 at the University of
Western Ontario.

The two guest speakers for the M.I.T.E. course are:

Raymond Connell, Vice President and CIO at Sears Canada
and Tom Healey, General Manager, Infocosm Division, Andersen
Consulting

Raymond Connell has over twenty five years of experience in the
manufacturing, natural resources, telecommunications and retail
industries.

Previous to joining Sears Canada, Mr. Connell was Senior VP,
Information Technology and CIO at AGT Limited, as well as the
Chairman of the Operations Development Alliance for the Stentor
Group of Companies. At Sears, Mr. Connell has corporate
responsibility for operations improvement, business process re-
engineering and long range business and information strategic
planning.

Mr. Healey is the General Manager of Andersen Consulting's
Infocosm Division, a unit that closely examines the evolving
information highway, including new technology, public and private
sector transformation, enterprise creation, and social impact.

Mr. Healey is an integral member of Andersen Consulting's world-
wide Infocosm steering committee, a group that will shape the
firm's Infocosm practice and direct its research and development
initiatives.

Prior to his current position, Mr. Healey held positions as President
and Managing Director of Synerlogic, an Andersen Consulting-
owned company, and Director of Marketing for Andersen
Consulting, Canada.


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                     THE CIPSNET REPORT
        (A weighty tome by Steve Gallinger, ISPguy)

Hi folks,
I'm putting a piece here in Canada's premier e-zine for IS
professionals to keep you abreast of what we're doin' vis-a-vis the
net.

So, here's the stuff, let's dive in, make of  it what you will, all
comments are mine alone, and away we go......

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                     Our Original Plans

We had originally intended to install access to the Internet, email
from/to nat.office.staff, a web and ftp sites, followed quickly by
PCRemote access for sections wanting to access our new National
Membership System. We also saw extensive use of Forms and
programs (called CGI Scripts) for `gated access' to features as
they were developed such as an online membership directory.
We've been toiling in the background on that one and I'll have
further announcements on it for my next column.

Unfortunately, a wonky network setup, a contract in lower Slobovia
for one of the volunteers, a
more-fun-than-you-could-imagine-access-
provider and surprise staff changes at nat.office all conspired to
put a damper on the speed with which we could roll it all out.

To the good, we've got the website up with some snazzy pages,
the ftp site working, sections online and active listservs. We've just
successfully completed an access-provider and IP switch. BTW,
everyone give a quick attaboy here for Jeff Newton of CIPS
Toronto, a member who alerted us to the effects of an incorrect
assignment of cips.ca to another site's homepage during the
switchover.

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                    What's Up This Month

We're taking another wack at the network card problem. I'm
bringing in one of the big guns, David Rostoker, experienced
Net-guy and LAN-man extraordinaire. David's a first year member
with CIPS Toronto and owner of the famous net-site, davro.ca!
He's well known to Toronto attendees of the annual Computerfest
as one of the regular speakers.

We're working on improving our mail-service. As you may know,
one of our main reasons for moving off of our previous provider
was the mail service. To put it mildly, it was flaky as hell. As part of
our switch we've decided to run own mail-server. This should be
installed within the next two weeks. It will allow us quite a few neat
features like mail-forwarding (having an address like
steve@cips.ca go to wherever my current email address is) and
listservs (hey Mike MacDonald, you've got competition <g>).

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                       Current Status

Net-Connection: We've upgraded from a 14.4k connection to
28.8k. Our new site is ***much*** more stable as we are now a
routed connection and our provider has more consistent service
delivery (especially with regards to cips.ca name-resolves). We will
still occasionally experience outages. The main cause of outages
continues to be the lack of 24x7 day on-site support (ie. if the line
goes down on the weekend, it's usually not brought up until
nat.office staff come in on Monday). So if you can't get through on
a Saturday or late at night try on Monday or the next day.

Web-server: up and ***much*** more stable since our switch on
29Jan96.

CIPS Home Page: www.cips.ca - Graphics went on a `slim-down'
program and the Membership Marketing Campaign pages are up

FTP-site: up

Listservs: up (thanks to Mike MacDonald and University of New
Brunswick)

Email-nat.office: We've finally fixed up most of our nat.office email
problems and you can send mail to staff via cips.ca. When in
doubt, send it to info@cips.ca.

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                     Gimme an Overview

"CIPSnet is a conglomerate of tools and capabilities intended to
enable effective communications amongst members". Currently we
run a variety of services including a Website, FTP site, listservs,
and email. Section webpages are a going concern with about half
of our sections having some sort of individual web-presence.

Our CIPS National servers  run on a beige DECpc Lpx 466-D2 with
16 megs RAM and a 1-gig drive hooked to a US Robotics 28.8
Sportster (the ragtop model) yakking to a 28.8 on the other side.
The last bit was accomplished as part of a move to the new
service provider. We're using Windows for Workgroups 3.11 and
DOS 6 (uggh) as our OS and we're running under the Chameleon
WinSock, using Chameleon's FTP server and Robert Denny's
WinHttpd for our WebServer.

Seeya, Steve Gallinger, ISP
CIPSnet Netboy

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                       1996 MIS PANEL

Changing consumer and business relationships, core competencies,
alliances and alignment of IT with business strategy are all
boardroom topics. Electronic Commerce is a driver that is
accelerating and making possible many of these changes.

This year's Canadian MIS Panel will discuss how electronic
commerce impacts business strategy, industry leadership, and the
IT call to action. Chaired by Christina Pochnursky, our panel has
been slected for their vision and leadership from a business
perspective in successfully executing change in their
organizations. We have purposely covered a number of sectors of
the economy, including Banking, Retail. Transportation and
Government because Electronic Commerce is global and boundaryless.
Today we are witnessing the convergance of information technologies,
that is creating an electronic marketplace.

The impact of electronic commerce has prompted a focus on customer
access, customer relationship, customer information and electronic
distribution. It has also impacted enterprise to enterprise relationships,
creating a renewed focus on core competencies and virtual organizations.
This presents increasing challenges for enterprises to respond quickly,
as technology is creating new industries and merging others.

This impacts the relationships, processes, and competencies needed to be
developed for the IT function. Our Panel will share their experiences and
insights they have gained in this area.

Please plan to attend the panel discussion on the morning of April 24 at
Roy Thompson Hall, Toronto.

Admission is $130 for CIPS members, and includes the panel discussion, a
relaxed buffet lucheon, and vendor exhibition in the afternoon.

Call the CIPS Toronto Office NOW to register, (905) 882-0018.


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                      UPCOMING EVENTS

EVENT: ISSA Toronto Session

TOPIC: Enterprise Security Management and Administration

WHEN: Tuesday March 16, 1996 - 8am to 5pm

WHERE: International Room B&C,  Main Floor, South Tower,
Manulife Financial, 200 Bloor Street East, Toronto

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EVENT: ExportVision

WHAT: an annual trade event organized by Foreign Affairs and
International Trade designed to assist Canadian companies in
exporting their products and services

SPECIAL FOCUS: education and training; business services;
geomatics/information

WHEN: March 19, 1996

WHERE: Regal Constellation Hotel, Toronto

CONTACT: International Trade Centre, Industry Canada (416)
973-5019
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EVENT: 8th International Conference of Computing and
Information (in cooperation with IEEE Computer Society)

WHAT: ICCI '96 will be an international forum for presentation of
new results in research, development and applications in
computing and information

WHEN: June 19-22, 1996

WHERE: University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario

CONTACT: Richard Hurley, phone (705) 748-1625, fax (705) 748-
1625 or email rhurley@trentu.ca

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         NEED ASSISTANCE FROM THE NATIONAL OFFICE?

We are here by email, info@cips.ca, by phone (416) 593-4040 or
by fax (416) 593-5184.

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