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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Hi Avril,<BR>
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AIMIA was actually founded in WA, in the very early 1990s, and I was on the WA committee for 3 or 4 years in the mid 1990s. It operated very effectively as a user-group that introduced a lot of people to a lot of people in the very early days – this is before the internet came along.<BR>
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Once it became nationalised, it was restructured by the sydney-melbourne axis into a corporate –government lobby group, and lost it’s interest in user-group activities, and appointed a whole series of very well paid CEOs...who only came the WA to tell us how important it was for us to pay the membership fees, so that we could get nothing back.<BR>
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So AIMIA kid of lost it’s momentum in WA.<BR>
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I hope this helps!<BR>
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Andrew<BR>
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<HR ALIGN=CENTER SIZE="3" WIDTH="95%"><B>From: </B>Avril Cox <<a href="avril.cox@gmail.com">avril.cox@gmail.com</a>><BR>
<B>Reply-To: </B><<a href="pigmi@pigmi.org">pigmi@pigmi.org</a>><BR>
<B>Date: </B>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 08:33:13 +0800<BR>
<B>To: </B><<a href="pigmi@pigmi.org">pigmi@pigmi.org</a>><BR>
<B>Subject: </B>[PIGMI] AIMIA?<BR>
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Just wondering if anyone has had anything to do with the Australian Interactive Media Industry Association (AIMIA)? (www.aimia.com.au <<a href="http://www.aimia.com.au">http://www.aimia.com.au</a>> )<BR>
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Came across them this morning and was interested to see they specifically cover games among other interactive media forms. <BR>
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Tempted to join but the fees are quite high (for individual membership) and I'm not sure they do all that much in WA.<BR>
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Could be worth pursuing as a potential alliance/sponsorship opportunity by LMG however?<BR>
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Cheers,<BR>
Avril.<BR>
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