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Published by Project Management Institute A Supplement to PM Network®
FEBRUARY
2009
Your Project Management Home in Cyberspace
Enhancements and
Added Functionality
at the Improved
PMI.org
isitors to PMI’s
website will find
a number of recent
improvements, designed to
help ensure members and
guests get maximum benefit
from their online experi-
ence. PMI’s website is the
welcome mat for the
Institute, so it is essential
that this portal’s homepage
serve as a “home base” that
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orients newcomers to PMI
while also helping existing
members and registered
users complete basic tasks.
Recent improvements have
achieved some important
milestones in addressing
this objective.
In December, the homepage was
refreshed for ease of use. By reducing
and simplifying some of the information
previously presented on the homepage,
the portal now does a better job of point-
ing the way to frequently used pages of
the site. The top of
the page now fea-
tures easy-to-find
links to these areas,
including member-
ship, credentials
and professional
development units
(PDUs) to maintain
credentials. Links
to other popular
pages in the stan-
dards, research
publications
Available online for PMI members only PMI.org
and the PMI Marketplace sections are
grouped at the bottom of the page.
At top right are links to PMI.org’s
blogs. Currently, those are “A CEO’s
Perspective on Project Management,”
with the thoughts of PMI President
and CEO Gregory Balestrero, and
“Voices on Project Management,”
covering multiple topics with
multiple authors. Both
blogs are open to comments, and several recent
entries have generated a
great deal of discussion.
Also on the homepage
are links to the Events
Blogs
Calendar and the new News page.
The News page features links to PMport
news service headlines of articles about
project management from magazines
and newspapers around the world, news
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