Dear Readers,

As I highly value your ideas, suggestions,  and improvements I have created the IWMSNews Suggestion Box! There are two ways to provide input for the Suggestion Box:

1. Private (by email form)
2. Public (in our Suggestion Box Forum)

I’m looking forward to your suggestions, and I wish you all a fantastic weekend.

Yours Sincerely,

Steven Hanks
CEO IWMSNews

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Some of you might already have seen the renewed Jobs section on our website. In order to maximize the exposure of vacancies we have included the most recent jobs as integral part of the homepage.

As of today the IWMS Jobs Section has been included in the sidebar.

Job Posting

You can post a job 30 days on iwmsnews.com for only $50 and pay for it using PayPal. After approval your job is posted to our website which guarantees relevant exposure.

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This morning I was reorganizing content on http://www.iwmsnews.com into a few new categories when I unfortunately made a terrible mistake which caused a resend of five posts. You might have noticed these posts in your mailbox. As I greatly value the privacy of all readers, and I don’t want to spam your mailbox, I offer my sincere apologies for undeliberately resending these posts.

So another resolution for 2010 (see:  The Art of War In Reducing Costs – New Post Series Announcement), has emerged; Not reorganizing post without unchecking the post notification button.

Yours Sincerely,

Steven

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The entire team of IWMSnews.com wishes you and your loved ones a very Happy New Year. We thank you for your support in 2009, and we are looking forward to continue to serve you as a valuable online resource in 2010.

Yours Sincerely,

Steven Hanks

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The last day of the year has arrived. Looking back I can truly say that 2009 was an absolute blast. I have enjoyed every moment of it, and want to thank you for all of your greatly valued support, your helpful feedback, and your inspiration.

Over the last year we have discussed a lot of topics that have to do with Integrated Workplace Management Systems (IWMS). Although you might remember most of these posts, here’s a categorized list with the “best of IWMSnews”. Enjoy!

Market Trends

1. IWMS Vendor & Market Evaluation Report
2. IWMS Trends: May 2009
3. IWMS Trends: June 2009

IWMS Implementation

1. 31 Days to improve your IWMS implementation
2. IWMS Implementation: Don’t bite off more than you can chew
3. 14 Ways to Evaluate Your IWMS Implementation

Cost Reductions

1. 10 Ways to Reduce Costs Immediately
2. Potential Savings during the Credit Crunch
3. IWMS and the Economic Crisis

Thought Leader Interviews

1. Thought Leader Interviews: Bruce K. Forbes
2. Thought Leader Interviews: Andy Fuhrman
3. Thought Leader Interviews: Pierre Guelen

Debates

1. Debate: Is CAFM Still The Strongest Acronym To Describe An Integrated FM Solution?
2. Debate: IWMS Implementation Pitfall
3. Debate: The Credit Crunch and IWMS

Internationalization of IWMS

1. I18n of IWMS: Multi-language
2. I18n of IWMS: Multi-measurement
3. I18n of IWMS: Multi-time zone

Sustainability

1. What Matters Now: Make Measurable What Is Not and the role of IWMS
2. Sustainability In IWMS Is Not A Hype
3. Weekly Poll: Sustainable Focus

Facility Management Model

1. A Capital Investment Decision-making Model
2. The FMO Maturity Model – On-boarding the New Facilities Management Leader
3. The FMO Maturity Model

So there you go the (non-complete) list with the best of IWMSnews.com 2009. This leaves me to wish you all the best for 2010! I’m looking forward to seeing again!

Yours Sincerely,

Steven Hanks

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It is a pleasure to say Thank You to our good and loyal friends during this holiday of thankfulness. Thank You for your continued support, your participation, and your inspiration to improve every day. It is because of you that we succeed!

Happy Thanksgiving for you and your family!

Yours Sincerely,

Steven Hanks
CEO IWMSnews.com

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Over the last year quite some developments have occurred here at iwmsnews.com. An ever increasing number of people join our online debates and post comments on articles (John Clark (Trirga), Bernard Hoefsmit (Bearingpoint) and others).

One of my all time favorites is the debate on IWMS Implementation Pitfall:
http://www.iwmsnews.com/2009/03/debate-iwms-implementation-pitfall/.

In addition to the above I frequently recieve emails in which members of our community specifically request for a forum on iwmsnews.

Well, now it’s there.

I’m extremely happy to announce our new Community Forum.

By visiting: http://www.iwmsnews.com/forum you can particpate in discussions on the forum.

I hope to see you all on the iwmsnews.com community forum.

Yours Sincerely,

Steven Hanks

Membership Account

The forum requires an iwmsnews.com membership account. If you haven’t registered yet as a member of iwmsnews.com, please visit: http://www.iwmsnews.com/wp-login.php?action=register

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May 17th 2008 was a memorable moment for our website. Approximately about 1:30 PM the birth of a website specifically oriented at Integrated Workplace Management Systems that support the Real Estate and Facilities Management Professionals around the globe, was celebrated.

The above implicates that on Sunday May 17th 2009 we will be celebrating our first birthday! Over the last year much has changed. Here is a quick review of what happened during this very dynamic year.

Posts

Iwmsnews.com started out with just one post which is still one of our most visited posts on cost reductions in economic downturn.

At the moment iwmsnews.com has almost 300 posts about Integrated Workplace Management Systems and we will continue to write more about this extremely interesting topic.

Members

It probably doesn’t surprise you that I was the first member of our community. What we can all proud ourselves upon is that we’ve succeeded to build a community of over 1000 professionals supporting iwmsnews.com. All these members have contributed significantly to the success of iwmsnews.com.

I want to thank you all for your continued support!

In addition to my sincere Thank you! I will personally contact you about a unique opportunity we grant to our members as of June 1st 2009. Please check your email regularly!

Guest Editors

At the start we didn’t have any guest editors at iwmsnews.com. At the moment we have 5 of which Jim Turner’s FM Notes from the Field is read and greatly valued by the vast majority of our community.

For the coming few years we want to extend the number of guest editors to at least 15, writing about specific subjects in the IWMS domain. Topics can vary between technical posts, software selection, market developments but also financials, due diligence, etc.

Interviews

In our Thought Leader Series we have interviewed the most important Thought Leaders from the IWMS industry. Again, I want to personally thank Traci Doane, Pierre Guelen, Michael Schley, Craig Gillespie, George Ahn, Michael T. Swanstrom and Andy Fuhrman for participating in this wonderful series.

All of you are considered Thought Leaders and have driven this industry to where it is today.

Sponsors

An increasing number of sponsors have been advertising on our website. Although we cannot disclose any information about specific campaigns I’d like to thank you all so much for your sponsorship of iwmsnews.com!

If you want to advertise on iwmsnews.com please go to http://www.iwmsnews.com/advertise/

Strategy

What can you expect from us in our second year of business?

We will focus on:

• Writing even more high quality posts (at least 3 posts per week)
• Securing additional guest editors
• Expanding our network

In addition to the above we are always open for any new suggestion you might have!

Again I’d like to thank you all for your continued support!

Yours Sincerely,

Steven Hanks

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As of today we have launched a new advertising program for http://www.iwmsnews.com. At the moment two advertising types are supported:

1. Header Banner (468 x 60px)
2. Sidebar Banner (125 x 125px)

The advertising types however are not the most important change to our advertising program.

We have adopted a new online advertising management solution that can maximize control over the ads in terms of campaigns, displays, CPM, Click-Through Rates, etc.

By implementing this Advertising Management software iwmsnews.com provides you with the package you need to optimize your online endeavors.

Please send your request for demographics and rates for advertising on iwmsnews.com to advertise@iwmsnews.com. Together with you we’ll come up with packages that will suite your needs perfectly!

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Today we have added another major IWMS vendor to the IWMS solution list.
Business Integration Group, Inc. the IWMS vendor and supplier of BigCenter IWMS has been added to the solutions overview. We will gather even more information in the coming few weeks.

Check BigCenter out here

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