Would PMI consider PDUs for blog posts?

Posted: April 23rd, 2009 | Tags: Academic publishing, PDU, PMI, Project Management, Research | No Comments »

Via Bas de Baar’s shared Google RSS feed I picked up on a discussion regarding earning PDUs for blog posts.

This concept is very similar to what the academic colleagues suggested at a recent PMI session that I attended covering opportunities for Business School Growth.  The challenges our colleagues in the academic world has is with the current rating of the current Project Management Research Journals and the time delay in getting articles published. As you may know they are “rewarded” based on the number of articles they publish in research journals. Unfortunately these journals also have long review and publication cycles (I have heard times longer than a year) Instead of publishing long academic papers in research journals we should also have another method for publishing shorter articles with a quick cycle. What is important is that it must be peer reviewed.  In order for this to work, there will need to be a “body” of respected academics and profesionals that review the articles before they are posted.  It may not yet solved the problem for the academics but could get the PM community a step forward.  For the business colleagues it is important that these articles are easily digestible and have practical application for them.

It was suggested to PMI to facilitate such a platform.  I will keep an ear on the ground to see if this suggestions is taken up by PMI.

How could this fit in with the PMI New Media Council? (a group of bloggers and other “new media” people who are working with the PMI)

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