I was planning to spread the word at my local PMI chapter in San Diego, but I was just thinking that trying to get a write up on the main PMI.org site or in their monthly magazine would be even better. Good idea? Terrible idea?
So as to not have a flood of PMI-centric contributions, what other equivalent organizations might we try to spread the word within?
Any professional organizations would be a great way to spread the word. However, it doesn't have to be specific to project management. Lots of organizations and companies have project managers, and we're more likely to get better, more realistic questions from people who work as real project managers in real companies.
The one possible problem with PMI-centric organizations is that they may bring in people who are too rigid. I was accused earlier of being more of a technical lead than a project manager and that my question was irrelevant. At my company, a project manager is technical and does more than just typical PM tasks. I'd hate to see the site become inflexible because a particular project management task doesn't fit the PMI definition of a project management task.
The job descriptions for a project manager will be different from company to company, and the site needs to be flexible in order to accomodate the majority of project manager roles.
UPDATE: Here are some other ways that we can promote the site:
PMI is a great start (not everyone there is dogmatically PMI-centric).
ASAPM is another pm focused organization.
Let major pm-podcasts know about it (e.g. The Project Management Podcast, PM411, Project Management War Stories).
Professional trade groups like SAE, IEEE, Construction Institue, etc.
