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Vol. 16, No. 1 - January, 20, 2010
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The CSAA Central Station Excellence Awards are Coming!

CSAA Excellence Awards

The Central Station Alarm Association (CSAA)'s Central Station Excellence Award program, sponsored by SDM Magazine, is celebrating its fifth anniversary this year.

To celebrate the occasion, CSAA staff met with past winners of the Awards to evaluate the program and the process. As a result, several exciting changes have been made:
  • The Award program added an additional Award this year, the Central Station Support Person of the Year Excellence Award.

    Is there an exceptional person in your organization other than the central station manager or operator, who makes your central station a better place--perhaps a data entry staff member, a trainer, the IT guru, the tech that fixes everything, the employee that keeps morale high?

    This Award recognizes the exceptional contributions of that person to the successful operation of the central station.
  • Companies applying for the Central Station Manager of the Year, Central Station Operator of the Year, and Central Station Support Person of the Year Excellence Awards will no longer need to complete the application for Central Station of the Year.
  • There will no longer be a five years' company restriction to submit candidates to the Central Station Manager of the Year, Central Station Operator of the Year, Central Station Support Person of the Year Excellence Award.

    However, the company may not submit the same person for the same award for three years.
  • The five-year company restriction to enter the Central Station of the Year Excellence award is reduced to three years.
  • All personnel nominated by their company for either the Central Station Manager, Operator, or Support Person of the Year will receive a CSAA congratulatory letter in recognition of their nomination as the best-of-the-best in their company.
  • The application process was reviewed, simplified and streamed lined.
  • Companies now have two months to apply for the Awards, rather one.
    All applications must be received by March 29, 2010.

Start planning for your 2010 Awards submission! Check your e-mails shortly for details, as well as the links to the forms.

For questions, please contact either Celia Besore, CSAA Vice President of Marketing & Programs, at 703-242-4670, Ext. 16 or at cbesore@csaaintl.org or Laura Stepanek, Editor and Associate Publisher of SDM Magazine at 630-694-4027 or stepanekl@bnpmedia.com.

The CSAA Central Station Excellence Awards Breakfast and ceremony will take place on Wednesday, June 16, 7:45am - 9:30am during ESX 2010 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, Penn. Tickets are included in the ESX Deluxe Pass or can be purchased separately for the CSAA Member Early Bird rate of $50 (if purchased before May 21).

CSAA Get Together at the ISC West!

CSAA would like to invite all of its members who are attending the ISC West in Las Vegas to stay at the beautiful Venetian Resort Hotel Casino to facilitate the networking and the meeting of our members. The hotel will do all it can to get CSAA members as close together as possible.

The room rate is $209. Please contact Reginald England, Sales Manager at 702.414.2477 or reginald.england@venetianpalazzo.com and ask to be included in the CSAA room block. See you there!

2009 CSAA Social Media Survey

As we mentioned in the December 18, 2009 CSAA Signals, it is rare to read any business magazine without coming across an article or two about how companies and organizations are using social media tools such as LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, Wikis, and Facebook. CSAA is using some of these tools to facilitate member interaction and collaboration.

If you did not have a chance to participate in the December, 18th Social Media survey, we would like to invite you to do so now. Below is the link for a very SHORT survey (it should take less than 3 minutes to complete!). It will be of great help to us to communicate better with our members.

Social Media Survey:
http://www.magnetmail.net/forms/display_form.cfm?fid=22631&mid=INCLUDEMESSAGEID&rid=999999999&rtype=mm&uid=CSAA

Sign-up to our First Free Webinar of 2010
Social Media-Help or Hype?

You are invited to participate in the first CSAA webinar of 2010 on February 17, 2010 2:00pm-3:00pm ET!

Find out why CSAA is involved in Social Media, whether your business should use these social networking / collaborative tools, and more. Reserve your free Webinar seat here now or at https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/290008851.

Security Sales & Integration's (SSI) Third Industry Census

Please participate in SSI’s Third Industry Census. This comprehensive study serves to establish the profile and practices of a typical manager working in the security installation business today. An array of charts, graphs and tables will tell the story of our vibrant industry. Comparisons will be made with the prior censuses, other industries and the general population. In addition, sidebars will cover organizations that promote industry diversity.

To participate, please visit http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BJNKM9N.

ESX 2010 Registration is Now Open
Rocky Bleier to Keynote ESX 2010

We're excited to announce registration for the 2010 Electronic Security Expo (ESX) is now open! Scheduled for June 14-18, 2010 in Pittsburgh, PA, ESX is co-sponsored and co-owned by CSAA and ESA. Click here to register online today.

There will be exciting new seminars in RMR, Sales and marketing, Business development and management, Installation management, Technology, Central station operations. All courses are approved for ESA/NTS CEUs. Courses in the Installation Management track are approved for 0.25 CEDIA CEU credits. Other tracks also qualify for CEUs.

Also, we are pleased to announce Rocky Bleier, who played as running back on four Super Bowl winning Pittsburgh Steelers teams, will deliver the keynote luncheon address at the Electronic Security Expo.
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