The EU (European Union) is making significant changes to their data protection and privacy rules.  Since the Chapter collects, stores and/or shares the personal data of EU citizens, you need to know about the GDPR.

What is the GDPR?

The GDPR, or the General Data Protection Regulation, is technically already in effect but will be enforced beginning May 25, 2018. However, all currently active Chapters will have up to three years to comply.  These new rules are for organizations that start after May 25, 2018.

Nonetheless Proteon is issuing this statement to certify that we are compliant with the Policy anyways.

The EU is implementing these changes in response to the significant increase in the amount of personal information collected and used today. The overall mission of the GDPR is to give members greater control over that personal data.  It won’t be enough for a chapter just to say they’re complying. They’ll also need to demonstrate compliance related to requirements in several areas, such as:

• Notification of Cookie Usage
• PCI DSS Compliance.  Proteon is PCI DSS Certified compliant.
• PII Compliance.  Proteon is PII certified compliant by PMI.
• Web Analytics.  Proteon anonymizes the IP addresses of the Google Analytics Module
• Personal data Usage.  Any former members data will be purged from the system upon request from the chapter member within 30 days of receipt of notice.

What’s considered personal data under GDPR?

The GDPR defines personal data broadly. They interpret it as anything that can be used to identify an individual. In addition to a name that can include information you may – and may not – consider personal, including: 

• Birthdays.
• Banking and financial information — Proteon does not store these.
• Credit card numbers - Proteon does not store these.
• PMI Member Record.
• Email addresses.
• IP addresses.
• Medical data — Proteon does not store these.
• Social media posts — Proteon does not store these.

Proteon is issuing this statement to demonstrate that we are compliant with the Policy.

Please print this statement and keep it for your Chapter records.

If you have any questions at all please contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and we will be happy to meet with you at your convenience to discuss this further.

—Mike Holstein, President, Proteon Software.

The PMI Chapter Partnership.

…Because running a chapter isn’t easy!

I hope you're all having a great day! We heard the feedback, and we've been experimenting with numerous solutions, so that you're able to send PDF certificates of completion to all event attendees. For, well.. quite sometime now. Numerous days.. countless hours.. were spent, but we never lost hope and finally figured it out! 

Now, Your Chapter can email PDF’s of the certificates to members AND non-members.

Click on the image below to watch a video how it works:

Many of the Chapters that we work with have been updated, and we expect to finish the rest week. If you don’t see it just forward this newsletter to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and we’ll take care of it.

Hi Everyone!  Mike here.  The following note below is from PMI.  It appears they're going to be doing some comprehensive technology updates over the weekend.  The updates will be Saturday US Eastern time.  All PMI Chapters will be affected BUT if you're with Proteon we have you covered because we provide the alternative login method through the 'Login Help' link on each chapter website in the partnership.  That link allows the chapter member to login and bypass the pmi.org SSO service so members can still register for events and get their member discounts.

How will the Upgrade Affect You?

All PMI.org websites and web applications will be unavailable on Saturday, 10 Febuary 2018, between 6 AM and 2 PM for a planned and scheduled upgrade.

What Systems are Affected?

These systems will be unavailable during the upgrade;

• PMI.org, myPMI, Search, Store (Marketplace)
• Certification, CCRS, Cert Admin
• CRS, VRMS, Component System, Exposure Draft
• CRM, Reports, Tech Admin

Want to Learn More?

Look for the Coming Soon: IT Business Capabilities Upgrade message coming next week, with a link to Release Notes.

The life of a Chapter Volunteer is busy! So its very important to have the best state of the art tools and features to quicxly and easily create dynamic content, engage our membership and then go on with our lives. 

Newsletters are still a critical tool in keeping in touch with your membership.  With the AcyMailing Newsletter, you can communicate what is happening with the chapter, let them know of upmcoing events, send suveys, send out Calls for Speakers and Calls for Volunteers and update them on big upcoming events such as Symposiums, Professional Developement Days and Conferences.

Click here to access the Proteon YouTube Channel and learn all about ACYMail. 
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLy_w7vdxDrp8d_vSAG0XBbtwCOWan22Rb  

We have becomee aware that there are intermittent issues occuring today when using the PMI Member Login Service.  Users are reporting an error message from PMI.org or they no longer seem to have access to the site.  

Proteon has built a fail-safe into all of our chapters in the event PMI's Single Sign On is down or experiences issues.  In this eventuallity, you can use the Login Help link and follow the instructions provided.  This will bypass the PMI Single Sign On and allow your members to continue to log in receive member discounts as well as your Board members and administrators access. 

If you have any issues using the Login Help link you can submit a ticket by sending an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..