¤ Get Involved! The Global Information Industry Summit steering committee meets Thursdays at 11:00 am EDT/ 4:00 GMT. If you are interested in participating and helping plan and shape this global event contact Jenny Hansen.

¤ Make a Nomination for the SIIA Board of Directors. The SIIA Board of Directors is the team that makes decisions and sets priorities for the Association at large. These are your representatives, and you will want to have the best possible advocates for your interests.
SIIA prides itself in having an open process for electing its volunteer leadership. The process for getting elected to the SIIA Board of Directors is simple: any full member of SIIA who feels they can commit the time and energy is eligible to run for a seat on the SIIA Board of Directors. Members are self-nominated according to the process outlined below.
The SIIA Board has seventeen seats. In the upcoming election, we will elect eight (8) new Board members to two-year terms. If you are interested in running, you need to get your campaign statement into mwilliams@siia.net, by c.o.b. on Friday, March 28, 2008.  The complete rules and procedures can be found here.

Upcoming:
   • Mike Walsh, President and CEO, U.S. Legal Markets (USLM), LexisNexis Group - March 25, 12 pm - 1 pm ET, Webcast  
   • Y.S. Chi - Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Global Academic & Customer Relations, Elsevier - April 22, 12 pm - 1 pm ET, Webcast
   • Karen Abramson, President & CEO, Wolters Kluwer Health Medical Research - September 25, 12 pm - 1 pm ET, Webcast  
 
Videos of past Executive FaceTime Interviews are available here.

Business and Legal Reports, Inc. (BLR) Kathy Greenler Sexton, CMO
Business and Legal Reports, Inc. (BLR): Old Saybrook, CT, USA. Business & Legal Reports, Inc. (BLR) is an award-winning publisher dedicated to supporting HR, Safety and Environmental professionals-helping them stay compliant with the myriad of changing and complicated State and Federal laws as well as supporting them with tools and training for their staff. Our team of respected attorneys, analysts and journalists constantly research federal and state legislation, best practices, industry trends, and impending developments that can affect any organization-at any time. We then use this information to deliver timely HR, Safety and Environmental tools, news, information and training to over 250,000 companies. For more information contact BLR at www.blr.com or call 1-800-727-5257.

eCredit.com, Inc. Kelli DeCosta, Marketing Communications Manager
eCredit.com, Inc.: Quincy, MA, USA. eCreditT is a leading provider of business information solutions for credit and collections professionals. Its market-leading credit scoring and collections automation support the critical processes of granting credit, monitoring portfolio risk, and collecting accounts receivable. eCredit also offers industry-specific credit reports, multi-bureau scores, and portfolio analysis tools that empower companies to make more informed decisions. eCredit is the choice of organizations of all sizes across all industries for optimizing commercial credit risk.

Education Week and Digital Directions Kay Dorko, Library Director
Education Week and Digital Directions: Bethesda, MD, USA. Guiding the American education community for over a quarter of a century, the independent and non-profit Editorial Projects in Education, Inc. provides education leaders with timely and objective discovery, analysis and interpretation of the events, policies, and people who shape the education landscape. Our family of resources includes Education Week, Digital Directions, and Teacher Sourcebook, as well as the resource-rich and interactive community found at EdWeek.org.

ExpoTV Daphne Kwon, Chief Executive Officer
ExpoTV: New York, NY, USA. ExpoTV has the largest collection of video product reviews contributed by its community of consumer reporters. "Videopinions" are also syndicated to power buying decisions on other major sites including Yahoo!, AOL, buy.com and smarter.com.

Jigsaw Jim Fowler, Chief Executive Officer
Jigsaw is an online directory for business contact and company information built by and for its global membership. Jigsaw provides low-cost and easy access to high-value business information that can be used to identify key decision makers and people for purposes such as sales, marketing, customer service, and recruiting. Jigsaw members, who have contributed more than 7 million business contacts from more than 500,000 companies since the database's launch in 2004, use Jigsaw to increase efficiency when searching for the business contact and company information they need to grow their business. Jigsaw is located in San Mateo, Calif., and is funded by Austin Ventures, El Dorado Ventures and Norwest Venture Partners.

The Cheyenne Group Pat Mastandrea, Chief Executive Officer
Provide expertise in retained executive search by assisting executive teams and boards with the recruitment and selection of senior executives, corporate directors, and other professional personnel for clients in media, information, publishing and communications.

¤ POLICY UPDATES
The following updates and commentaries have been recently posted:
3/15 - Intellectual Property Update
2/22 - SIIA Files Joint Amicus Urging Supreme Court Hear Case on State Sovereign Immunity
1/15 - SIIA Submits Comments on Framework for Data Security & Breach Notification to Industry Canada