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Letter from the chair

I hope you had an enjoyable summer and are looking forward to the new academic year. I am pleased to announce the recipients of the Fifth Annual Magid Igbaria Outstanding Conference Paper of the Year Award, presented at the ACM-SIGMIS CPR (Computer Personnel Research) 2008 Conference at the Omni Charlottesville Hotel in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, from April 3-5, 2008. Please join me in congratulating Eileen M. Trauth, Jeria L. Quesenberry, Haiyan Huang, and Stephen McKnight for their paper entitled, "Linking Economic Development and Workforce Diversity through Action Research." You can find their award-winning paper in the SIGMIS CPR 2008 Conference Proceedings, available in the ACM Digital Library at: http://portal.acm.org/dl.cfm. I would like to invite you to consider sending a submission to next year's SIGMIS CPR 2009 Conference: <ul><li>Where: University of Limerick campus, Limerick, Ireland</li> <li>When: May 28-30, 2009.</li></ul> The submission deadline is October 31, 2008. Your participation is welcome and encouraged! For more information, please contact the SIGMIS CPR Conference Committee:<ul><li>Conference Chair: Norah Power, University of Limerick</li> <li>Program Chair: Damien Joseph, Nanyang Technological University</li> <li>Treasurer: Indira Guzman, Touro University International Or, check our website for conference information at: http://www.acm.org/sigmis.</li></ul> Our Data Base Editorial Staff also awaits the submission of your best research: <ul><li>Editor-in Chief: Tom Stafford, Fogelman College of Business & Economics, University of Memphis</li> <li>Global Co-Editor: Patrick Y.K. Chau, School of Business, The University of Hong Kong</li> <li>Managing Editor: Colleen Schwarz, E.J. Ourso College of Business, Louisiana State University</li> <li>Technical Editor: Loel Kim, Center for the Study of Rhetoric & Applied Communication, University of Memphis</li></ul> Submission information is available at the Data Base website at: http://the-database.org. Finally, we are pleased to invite you to the Eighth Annual ACM-SIGMIS Reception: <ul><li>Where: International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS2008), Paris, France Location to be determined</li> <li>When: Saturday, December 13, 2008, 5:30 to 7:00 pm</li> <li>Who: All ACM-SIGMIS members and their invited guests are welcome!</li></ul> We appreciate your continued support of SIGMIS. Please feel free to contact any one of us with ideas.

Janice C. Sipior | Donald L. Amoroso | Diane Lending | Susan A. Vowels | Conrad Shayo