(openPR) - Dallas, Texas – March 31, 2007 — PMForum, Inc announced today that Mr. Ed Naughton has become an International Correspondent for the Company in Dublin, Ireland. In August 2006, the company announced the formation of a Global Correspondents Network to provide project management-related news and information from around the world and to provide PMForum with local representation. PMForum operates www.pmforum.org, the world’s first website devoted to professional project management, and produces the popular monthly online e-Journal PM World Today.

According to managing editor David Pells, “Ed Naughton is one of the leading authorities on project management in Ireland today. He is well known throughout the European project management community, a former IPMA vice president, and the director of the leading Irish professional institution. It is an honor to have him join our global correspondents’ network.”

Ed Naughton, BE, C. Eng., F.I.E.I, IPMA-a, PMP, is the founder and current Director General of the Institute of Project Management of Ireland, the leading authority on the PM profession in Ireland. Ed is a former Vice President of the International Project Management Association (IPMA) and is currently co-Chair of IPMA’s “Nation to Nation” Project Management Forum. Ed has researched, published and presented many articles and papers on project management and is the author of the Irish Project Management Competence Baseline. During his thirty year career, he has worked as a project manager or project management consultant on a large variety of high profile domestic and international projects. Mr. Naughton is a graduate of University College Dublin (BE, Civil), a Fellow of the Institute of Engineers of Ireland, a Chartered Engineer (Ireland), a Professional Engineer in Canada, and holds IPMA Level A certification. He is former editor of the quarterly international publication “Project Management Practice”. Additional information about Ed Naughton can be seen at www.pmforum.org/blogs/news/2007/03/ed-naughton-named-inte....

Others who have become International Correspondents for PMForum.org recently include Alfonso Bucero (Madrid, Spain), Carol Dekkers (Florida, USA), Florin Gheorghiu (Bucharest, Romania), Theofanis Giotis (Athens, Greece), Thibaut Goupil (Evreux, France), Jose Machicao (Lima, Peru), Saralee Newell (Florida, USA), Dr. Chima Okereke (Port Harcourt, Nigeria), Manfred Rieck (Frankfurt, Germany), Raju Rao (Chennai, India), Alexandre Rodrigues, PhD (Lisbon, Portugal), Ana Maria Rodrigues (Rosario, Argentina), Alcides Santopietro (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Robert Posener (Sydney, Australia), Miles Shepherd (London, UK), Ahmet Taspinar (Istanbul, Turkey), and Marc Zocher (Washington, USA). The Company expects to announce other international correspondents around the world in coming months. Additional information about the PMForum.org Global Correspondents Network and about individual correspondents can be found at www.pmforum.org/pm%20forum%20team/index.htm#5.

PMForum, Inc. administers and operates www.pmforum.org, one of the world’s best known project management websites and a leading source of breaking news from around the world of PM. PMForum also publishes the monthly online PM World Today e-Journal, where articles, case studies, papers and viewpoints by leading project management authorities and experts from around the world can be found. Free subscriptions are available at www.pmworldtoday.net.

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