Time to Celebrate! 2007 - The year of PMForum's emergence
as a global resource for the world of project management!

By David L. Pells

Now it is December again, time to reflect and celebrate the accomplishments of another year.  In the US, this is the month when many organizations schedule special events, vacations and holiday breaks, and work slows down.  Project management professional associations, branches and chapters often schedule parties, awards banquets or other celebrations.  December is the season for celebration and remembrance.

It is also a good time to look back at the year, to reward accomplishments, and to discuss “lessons learned” from our projects and programs.  This month I want to take a moment to note the progress that we have made this year at PMForum, to reconfirm our mission and to thank those who have contributed to our success.

Nearly 14 years ago when David Curling began to explore this new medium, the worldwide web, he decided to create an independent source of global information about professional project management.  He created www.pmforum.org, the world’s first PM website, which he promoted at the first Global PM Forum in New Orleans in October 1995.  By the time he retired at the end of 2004, David had created one of the world’s best known project management websites, visited by thousands on a regular basis, and linked to over 10,000 other websites around the world.  During 2005 and 2006, PMForum.org was owned and administered by iWorld Projects & Systems, a business development company that tried to grow the website as a global platform for PM news, information and services.  Traffic and visibility of the website continued to grow, but slowly.  In early 2007, PMForum, Inc. was formed as a new company to own and grow www.pmforum.org and related online assets into a more robust set of resources for the world of project management.  During 2007, growth and expansion have accelerated.

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