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ASI's SMART Company Scholarship Fund is again offering financial assistance for your professional development. The fund offers four rounds of funding each year (March, June, September & December). Applications for the current round must be received no later than Thursday 10th December 2009.

The Fund specifically assists staff working in Not-For-Profit organisations and has provided grants to more than 70 individuals over the past three years.

If you are not an ASI customer - we invite you to apply in this round for our fully funded scholarships to undertake the Fundraising Institute of Australia Skills 123 Training Courses (see under Program Part A).

Here are a few photos from our last Melbourne boardroom lunch for 2009 - held on Tuesday 1st December.

Today we hosted a group of Membership Execs from the iMIS Community - here are some pictures from today:

The iMIS training class schedule has been updated for Oct - Dec 2009. There is a swag of At Your Desk and face to face classes scheduled.

At Your Desk (AYD) classes represent great value for money (only $165 - Australian dollars). The two hour courses cover a range of topics - including new courses in Customer Management. There are also AYD courses in Events, Billing-Dues, Orders, IQA, Business object Designer and AR/Cash.

Face to face classes have been scheduled for Melbourne including Web Content Management, iBO .NET and Task Centre.

Go to www.advsol.com/ap/learning for all the details.

ASI is participating as an exhibitor at the Associations Forum National Conference being held in Melbourne today and tomorrow at the new Melbourne Convention Centre on the southbank. There are approx 300 delegates attending the two days with about 30 or so exhibitors. The first break this morning has some good traffic through with a few current iMIS customers saying hi and a few prospects showing interest - all very promising! We're focusing on Social Networking and running a short survey on social media and also encouraging prospects to sign up for our next round of Software Selection Luncheons (www.advsol.com/ap/share). Here are some photos of ASI's exhibit stand at the conference - taken this morning (yes the sun was shining in Melbourne!!).

Photos from the iMIS Customer Briefing in Melbourne held this week. Our biggest crowd in the office yet!

here are some happy snaps from today's iMIS Business Excellence luncheon for Executives.

The first week of June marked the beginning of Customer Briefings - the topic: iMIS 15.1 Maximise your Potential. So far we have presented in Perth and Wellington. Other capitals are being scheduled for the coming month.

The purpose of the briefing is to show a lot of the great new features of 15.1. Customers will see a lot of benefit in Site Designer, Content Designer, IQA Improvements and also SSRS support (SQL Server Reporting Services). There is real potential in 15.1 for every customer.

As part of the briefing we also recommend every customer review their iMIS usage regularly - get back to basics and make sure you are making the most of your current investment. We provide each attendee with a personalised iMIS Value Cycle profile for their organisation to help them have meaningful discussions with their Customer Sales Executive or other ASI Staff.

I have added a Twitter block to the left hand side of the insideasiap.com web site taking feeds from staff Twitter accounts on an hourly basis. So far myself, Jay and Kelly are being aggregated and displayed. If you would like yours added, just let me know.

You may also be interested in following Twitter search feeds for "iMIS" and "NiUG". Try these:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=imis

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=niug

If you are using a Twitter client such as Tweetdeck or Seesmic it is easy to add in search views for these automatically. They also let you monitor specific user accounts and create groups like "work" and "home".

View photos from the ASI Sydney staff GPTW Celebratory dinner Thurs night 28 May. Unfortunately Amanda S was ill. We made the best 50 companies to work for in Australia for 2009! See the media release.

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Following on from the success of the Software Selection Luncheons held in Melbourne, Sydney and Singapore in March we are hitting the road and taking these events to Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Wellington during June.

The Software Selection Executive Luncheons are currently being run very successfully by ASI around the globe.

The events are specifically targeted to CXO staff at NFPS (prospective customers) to learn how to make sure they have the technology to see their organisation through the next decade.

Hosted by ASI's New Business Managers, attendees will discover:
• How to keep their entire management team accountable for the success of their project

View photos from the ASI Melbourne staff GPTW Celebratory dinner Wed night 13 May. Missing were Nissi (sick baby boy), Colin (leave) and Ross (flying home from Europe). We made the best 50 companies to work for in Australia for 2009! See the media release.