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Retirement of Director General

Mike Ryan, the IAP’s Director General, has decided to retire shortly. Suitably qualified and experienced people wishing to apply for the post should go to DG Information for details. [Please note that the closing date for applications for this post has now passed.]

SharePoint; the land of the Planner, Architect, Systems Analyst

Geoff Evelyn, FIAP has written here before about aspects of SharePoint. In fact, he might be said to be evelyn-gelical about it. Sorry, I feel better now. This time, he concentrates on staffing for a successful SharePoint project. If you’re a SharePoint Architect, there are a number of areas you want to focus on. I […]

Living Words

It goes without saying that IAP members have a wealth of technical expertise and training. Without such skills they wouldn’t be members. But there’s more to personal success than technical abilities, especially at senior levels. Many companies, recognizing this, employ life coaches to help their staff reach their potential. As individuals, though, we don’t generally […]

New challenges for the Real Time Club An invitation to lunch

Charles Ross, FIAP is well-known to IAP members as an energetic leader of the IT community. It is now forty years since he helped to found the Real Time Club. Much more recently, Charles was a member of the Quantum Technologies Action Plan, Q-TAP, with Qinetic and the National Physical Laboratory, for the Technical Strategy […]

IAP Prize Presentation

On Thursday 25 February, the IAP’s Marketing Manager, Tom Hohenberg, had the pleasurable duty of presenting the IAP Prize for Software Engineering to Richard Mather for his MSc dissertation at the University of Oxford*.  Richard’s dissertation is entitled “A Workflow Application and XML Datastructure for Processing Geo-referenced Images”. It is of particular interest to the […]

SharePoint Archiving – Defining a way Forward

Geoff Evelyn, FIAP enjoys over 20 years’ experience in Information Systems design, development and business IT enhancement. He is a technical evangelist specializing in SharePoint architecture, design, implementation and automation at one of the world’s largest investment banks. He also focuses on business continuity, disaster recovery and numerous related areas, all in the land of […]

New Year Offer for IAP Members!

Would you like to win an HTC Hero Android  handset? Just visit www.wiley.com/go/wroxHERO and answer four questions…

IAP Launches New Web Site

The IAP has today (12th January) launched its new Web site. It is based on the popular WordPress blogging tool and allows the IAP to develop their site further, using add-ins provided by third parties or written by our technical staff. While, initially, the site has brought over most of the content from the old […]

Face Book and Linked In

Coming soon, we will be adding links to Face Book and the popular business contacts system Linked In. This will enable us to let you know what is happening as soon as we know.

VSJ – September 2009 – Work in Progress

Here’s Allen Woods’ update on his Performance Organiser software, referred to in ‘Members News’. Back in May, much to my surprise, I received an email from the Institution’s Education Officer regarding some articles I wrote several years ago related to my work, with a request for a follow-up piece, the aim of which was to […]