A Message from the President
Greetings Regina South Sask Chapter Members!
I hope everyone is enjoying the summer so far and staying healthy and safe in this “brave new norm”.
Updates:
- WEBSITE: We migrated our website to the MG2 platform and changed out our back office suite to M365
- If you've sent an email to the chapter and haven't received a response - please send it again. With the major technology changes we've made, we would hate to miss one of your submissions.
- PDC: a one day virtual event on Tuesday Nov 16-17- registration open
- CHAPTER MEETINGS: August through December Chapter Meetings will all be virtual. Here's hoping to see you all in person in 2021!
PMI Global Covid-19 Related Updates:
- Updating COVID-19 Update Page on an ongoing basis.
- Waiving rescheduling fees for all certification exams until 1 October.
- Automatically extending all candidates’ exam eligibility until 18 January 2021.
- Launched the new PMI Beta Bot, a 24/7 chat bot to answer your basic questions. Check it out on the Contact Us page.
- Created the PMI Customer Care Alexa Skill so members and certification holders can link their PMI.org account to any Amazon Alexa-enabled device to ask Alexa: “What is my member (or certification) since date?” “What is my membership end date?” “When does my certification expire?” “How many PDUs do I have?” Try it today!
Stay Safe.
Robert Dash
President, PMI – Regina South Sask (RSS)
Upcoming Events
18 February 2021
Free
PMI-RSS February 2021 Chapter Meeting with Marianne Bell
18 February 202112:00 to 13:00
Virtual Meeting
Cost:
FreeMembers
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18 March 2021
Free
PMI-RSS March 2021 Chapter Meeting with Lauren Sergy
18 March 202112:00 to 13:00
Virtual Meeting
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15 April 2021
Free
PMI-RSS April 2021 Chapter Meeting with Scott Ambler
15 April 202112:00 to 13:00
Virtual Meeting
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