Appeal for mentors, referees and editors

May, 2008
by Margaret Greenberg, Denise P. Kalm

About the Author
Denise P. Kalm, CA, Inc. formerly Cybermation

Denise Kalm has 30 years experience in IT including application programming, enterprise systems management and performance management/capacity planning at Pacific Telephone and Bank of America. She moved to vendor land in 2000, spending 5 ½ years with BMC on the EPA product line, then recently became the senior product marketing manager for enterprise job scheduling products at CA, Inc., formerly Cybermation. She is a regional officer of CMG, has held many volunteer positions within that organization and is a frequent contributing author. Prior to entering the IT profession, she was a biochemical geneticist. Her hobbies include flying, Jazzercise, writing and scuba diving. Her book, Lifestorm, on the Oakland Hills fire, is available on Amazon. She is an executive and personal coach as well, offering phone and in-person coaching.

MENTORS NEEDED. We are in the final stages of getting the abstracts in and the number of new authors is astonishing! And they all want mentors. I have run out of names of candidates, so if you have ever presented and would be willing to help one of our new authors get going, please let me know ASAP. I don’t want to have to tell anyone "no." Please contact me directly at if you can help. Time is of the essence - the due date for papers is rapidly approaching. Thank you.

Wanna Sneak Peek at CMG08? We need a few more referees and editors for the conference papers. As a referee, you have the opportunity to view submitted papers and select content for the conference. As an editor, you will be able to help an author make the final paper the best it can be. Sign up now at: http://www.cmg.org/cgi-bin/volunteer.pl Thank you for your participation.