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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>That's an interesting (and sad) story, Andrew.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Avril, depeding on what your looking to get out of an organisation, the GDAA (</span><a href="http://gdaa.com.au/">http://gdaa.com.au/</a>) <span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>might be worth considering. They helped me a lot at GDC recently.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>L8r, Paul<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></a></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> pigmi-pigmi.org-bounces@lists.pigmi.org [mailto:pigmi-pigmi.org-bounces@lists.pigmi.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Andrew Hutchison<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, 28 March 2011 10:07 AM<br><b>To:</b> pigmi@pigmi.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [PIGMI] AIMIA?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Hi Avril,<br><br>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><br>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><br>So AIMIA kid of lost it’s momentum in WA.<br><br>I hope this helps!<br><br>Andrew<br><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><hr size=3 width="95%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>From: </span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>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><br>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><br>Came across them this morning and was interested to see they specifically cover games among other interactive media forms. <br><br>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><br>Could be worth pursuing as a potential alliance/sponsorship opportunity by LMG however?<br><br>Cheers,<br>Avril.<br>--<br>Reveri.es <<a href="http://Reveri.es">http://Reveri.es</a>> Virtual World<br>www.reveri.es <<a href="http://www.reveri.es">http://www.reveri.es</a>> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><hr size=3 width="95%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas'>_______________________________________________<br>PIGMI mailing list - <a href="http://pigmi.org/">http://pigmi.org/</a> - <a href="pigmi@pigmi.org">pigmi@pigmi.org</a><br>Unsubscribe: <a href="http://lists.pigmi.org/listinfo.cgi/pigmi-pigmi.org">http://lists.pigmi.org/listinfo.cgi/pigmi-pigmi.org</a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>