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Rod Dalglish from Bus Association Victoria recorded a video testimonial while in the US for 2007 Discovery. The testimonial has been uploaded to the ASI YouTube Channel. Go to www.youtube.com/asicommunity to see it.

The Great Things Award for 2007 was presented by me during the NiUG conference dinner on Thursday night 11th October. It was won for the second year in a row by The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP), and the award was accepted in person by Kim Keane, the RACGP IT Manager.

The RACGP have done some great things with iMIS this year, including:

"Long Term Thinking Leads Lawyers to Meaningful Relationships"

A Success Story on the Law Institute of Victoria (LIV) has now been publshed to www.advsol.com/ap.

Thanks to Sue Woodman at LIV in assisting us to prepare this success story.

Speaking of the Discovery conference, we have changed the nomination process for this years "Great Things Award". Last year, we asked customers to nominate themselves; this year, we are asking ASI staff to nominate customers. And if you nominate the winning customer, you will win Gold Class movie tickets!

iMIS ACHIEVING GREAT THINGS AWARD ... calling on staff to nominate!

We will again be presenting an award to an iMIS customer at the upcoming NiUG Discovery Conference. The award will be presented to a customer who has used iMIS to "Achieve Great Things". The winning organisation will be announced at the conference during the Networking Dinner on Thursday 11th October 2007.

Lehman Associates in the US recently completed a study on Association Management Systems, which showed that iMIS holds 37% market share in the US, that iMIS ranks highest among major AMS vendors in implementation experience, and iMIS ranks higher than the combined average ratings of other major AMS vendors in product satisfaction.

We put out a press release summarising the results, which I have copied in below. Edward has a full copy of the report for anyone wanting the specific details.

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Lehman Associates Study Shows iMIS is the Market Leading Association Management System

"Surgeons Adopt Cutting Edge Technology"

A Success Story on The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) has now been publshed to www.advsol.com/ap or view the pdf attached.

Thanks to David Spargo and Ian Burke at RACS in assisting us to prepare this success story.

"Psychologists Register Improvements With iMIS"

A Success Story on Psychologists Registration Board of Victoria (PRVB) has now been publshed to www.advsol.com/ap or view the pdf attached.

Thanks to Paul Gloster and David Collier at PRVB in assisting us to prepare this success story.

Marilyn, Mick and I attended an all-staff lunch at AIM Vic/Tas today. The purpose of the lunch was to celebrate the success of the iMIS project and the successes of AIM generally in the 2006 year. About 60 people all up were in attendance, and included an opening address by the AIM CEO and a follow up vote of thanks from the AIM President/Chairman.

Susan (AIM's CEO) gave particular thanks to Eddie and the AIM/IMS project team, and made special mention of our own Marilyn as being outstanding. Richard (AIM's President), who is a Partner at KPMG, also made special mention of the iMIS project, and in particular that it was delivered on-time and on-budget, and just how important that was to the Board and the organisation generally. He has been involved before in numerous IT/CRM implementations and knew from experience what a challenge they can be, so his congratulations to the project team were from a position of knowledge.

Everyday customers do great things with iMIS. More often than not though we do not hear about these great things. You can help!

Anytime you hear about a customer doing something great with iMIS - no matter how small - please post a comment into the Great Things Suggestion Box wiki. You can go straight to it from this link www.insideasiap.com/greatthings, or click on the 'Wikis' link in the top navigation on this site. (note that you need an account to add a comment). Just enter brief notes on what they actually did; don't worry too much about formatting and grammar etc., we just need the ideas. And the name of the customer.

Shearne and I were invited today up to Ballarat to see iMIS in action at the Australian Road Cycling Championships www.aorcc.com which is run by Cycling Australia. Ron was our host in between his duties at manning the timing and results equipment which is linked in to iMIS.

We got to see both the mens and womens 28km time trials. The circuit is very tough, lots of hills, but I was surprised how fast these men and women go, averaging over 40km/h up and down pretty big hills.

Everyday customers do great things with iMIS. More often than not though we do not hear about these great things. You can help!

Anytime you hear about a customer doing something great with iMIS - no matter how small - please post a NEW COMMENT below with your notes on what they actually did. Don't worry too much about formatting and grammar etc., we just need the ideas. And the name of the customer.

At the Discovery conference in November we announced the 2 'Great Things' award winners for 2006. Caritas was at the conference and received their award then. RACGP were not able to attend due to a schedule conflict with their own conference, so last Friday myself, Bilal, Colin and Mick headed down to RACGP for a mini-presentation of their 'Great Things' award.

Jason and I met on Monday with Paul (CEO), Allison (Finance/InfoSys GM) and Liz (Marketing/Comms GM) for a 2.5 hour workshop on setting a roadmap for Plunket over the coming 2 years and have that aligned with iMIS. Plunket have a very strong brand in NZ – in fact they see 92% of new babies every year – and have the potential to utilise technology to build on the strong community networks they already have in place. The future for them is very exciting! Plunket website here www.plunket.org.nz.

A great story in the Melbourne Age and Sydney Morning Herald today - half page - on the success of iMIS at Caritas Australia. The story is called 'Turning Disaster into Triumph'. Links below:

www.theage.com.au/news/biztech/turning-disaster-into-triumph/2006/07/17/...

www.smh.com.au/news/biztech/turning-disaster-into-triumph/2006/07/17/115...

A recent survey of iMIS customers in Australia and New Zealand found that 87% of respondents gave iMIS the thumbs up answering that they were satisfied with their iMIS software solution.

More than 220 not for profit organisations using iMIS were surveyed by independent agency BMS Telecorp on behalf of ASI during May.

The annual survey’s focus was to look at customers’ use of iMIS and gauge the level of satisfaction with their iMIS software solution and the level of service and support from ASI and Authorised iMIS Solution Providers.