NEWS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 05-12-2008
acadami™ Announces 29 Students Successfully Complete Best Practices Program in First Week
Richardson, Texas, May 12, 2008 – acadami™ has announced that 29 attendees of its Document Production Best Practices program offered in Ottawa, Montreal, and Toronto in May 2008 will be eligible to receive certificates of completion and one CEU (Continuing Education Unit). These attendees met the attendance requirements and passed the exam as prescribed by the certification program defined by Xplor International for CEU credits. Xplor has already certified acadami‘s Document Production Fundamentals program which was successfully presented in Boston at the 2008 Xplor Document University, and acadami‘s Document Production Best Practices program represents yet another step in acadami and Xplor working together to improve industry knowledge and skills.
The Document Production Best Practices program focuses on the concepts, technologies, and best practices associated with automated transaction document production. The modules in the one day event will take the student from Data to Doorstep.
The second week of Canadian events is being held May 13 in Calgary and May 14 in Vancouver, with an additional course in Mississauga in mid-June. Plans are well underway to offer this program shortly in the United States and Europe.
The new Best Practices workshop was developed and is being taught through the collaboration of industry experts Bill Broddy edp, William J. ‘Bill’ McCalpin edp, and Michael Turton edp.
Attendees are enthusiastic about this new kind of education available to industry professionals that is both content-rich and vendor-neutral. Typical comments by attendees in Canada this last week were “Excellent course & topics – the time just flew by!” and “Great teachers, great content”.
For more information on the course, please visit: acadami™ at www.acadami.org.
For more information on the Canadian tour and how to enroll, please visit: xplorcanada.org and click on ‘Event registration’.
About acadami
acadami is the collaboration of three industry veterans: Bill Broddy edp, William J. ‘Bill’ McCalpin edp, and Michael Turton edp. Together, these industry experts present education on the entire range of the electronic document experience and practice.
Bill Broddy assists major organizations across North America with regulatory best practices, market planning, and implementation of electronic document delivery applications. Bill brings over 30 years’ experience with electronic document enabling and delivery. He is Vice-chair of the EDP Commission and Course Instructor for the North American EDP Certification Program. Xplor, the Electronic Document Systems Association, recognized his leadership and expertise in 2004 with their most prestigious award “Xplorer of the Year”. He can be reached at wbroddy [at] acadami.org .
William J. ‘Bill’ McCalpin has more than 25 years’ experience in the fields of software development and consulting, in both technical and management positions. Prior to his current role, he was General Manager of Xplor International and was Vice-President of Product Marketing at Xenos. Bill was the first person in the world to hold the EDP from Xplor, the MIT and LIT from AIIM, and the CDIA from CompTIA. He can be reached at Registrar [at] acadami.org .
Dr Michael Turton has been designing documents for over two decades during which time he witnessed the birth of desktop printing and laser production printers. He established Cavendish Consultants in 1992, principally to design mission critical transactional documents and forms. His designs not only look good but work well, a combination of form and function. When he is not designing documents, he helps companies develop and implement document strategies whose justifications are not so much ‘How much?’ but rather ‘What is the cost of not having one?’ He can be reached at mturton [at] acadami.org .
acadami can be found on the Web at www.acadami.org.
About the Electronic Document Profession
Electronic Document Professional (EDP) is one of the most highly regarded certifications in the document industry. Candidates must have 5 years of active involvement in document production and submit case studies for peer-review to establish their experience and expertise. More than 500 industry professionals have earned this designation over the last 19 years. For more information, please see http://www.xplor.org/edp.
About Xplor
Xplor International, also known as The Electronic Document Systems Association®, is a worldwide association of users and suppliers of the products and services that create, modify, and deliver customized information using a variety of document technologies. Incorporated in 1981 as a not-for-profit association, it is worldwide with 10 regions and 18 chapters that are directed, organized, and governed by its members.
Xplor is the community of choice for education, information sharing, and networking that meets the needs of our members and provides leadership to the evolution of the document systems industry.
For further information, please see www.xplor.org For further information, contact: William J. ‘Bill’ McCalpin edp, acadami, 1-972-231-3660 (GMT-6), Registrar (at) acadami.org .