For my initial blog, I reviewed the website for The Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP). The AITP is a very valuable resource for both current IT professionals and students would are pursuing an IT related degree and have the intent of entering into an IT profession. NVCC is not listed on the site as having an AITP Student Chapter, but I understand I could join as an “Individual Student Member At Large”. AITP provides education through seminars, workshops, and various regional and national conferences and offers leadership development resources, and opportunities for networking with other IT professionals. AITP also provides members with mentoring and knowledge sharing opportunities, which would be extremely beneficial to all members, but especially an IT student preparing to enter the workforce. AITP assists members in staying on top of emerging technologies; one way that they do this is through their Research and Strategy Advisory Group (RSAG). RSAG researches trends in the IT industry, reports their findings or conclusions, and then recommends AITP strategy positions. There are some interesting RSAG research papers listed on the website with topics that include cloud computing, information security, and virtualization (IT “going green”).
www.aitp.org
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