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<div>This is great news; congratulations, Jon! </div>
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<div>And also very exciting that 10 highly qualified people applied and a broader train the trainer initiative may be possible as well. All very good for DDI, and hats off to the trainers who have carried so much of the load to date!</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Mary Vardigan <<a href="mailto:vardigan@umich.edu">vardigan@umich.edu</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span>Data Documentation Initiative Users Group <<a href="mailto:ddi-users@icpsr.umich.edu">ddi-users@icpsr.umich.edu</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Thursday, August 21, 2014 at 4:03 PM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>Data Documentation Initiative Users Group <<a href="mailto:ddi-users@icpsr.umich.edu">ddi-users@icpsr.umich.edu</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>[DDI-users] New DDI Trainer Selected<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Dear DDI Community,<br>
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The DDI Alliance and GESIS are pleased to announce that <a href="http://www.ioe.ac.uk/staff/clss_25.html" target="_blank">
<span>Jon</span> <span>Johnson</span></a> from the Institute of Education, University of London, has been chosen for the
<a href="http://www.ddialliance.org/node/922" target="_blank">new DDI trainer position</a> and will participate in
</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.gesis.org/en/events/gesis-workshops/2014-ddi/" target="_blank">this year’s training workshop</a>, which will
take place at Schloss Dagstuhl on <span><span>October 13-17, 2014, with a week of preparation the preceding week at GESIS in Mannheim</span></span>.</span></span><br>
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<span>Jon</span> brings a wealth of experience in managing and documenting longitudinal data along with an extensive network of partners that are candidates for DDI training. He has a strong vision for DDI training and for encouraging the use and adoption of
DDI around the world.<br>
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The training opportunity generated a lot of interest, with ten very qualified people applying. We hope to offer it again in the future and are considering a broader "train the trainer" initiative that would involve more people.
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Mary<br>
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Mary Vardigan<br>
Director, DDI Alliance<br>
Assistant Director, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)<br>
P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48106<br>
Phone: 734-615-7908<br>
Fax: 734-647-8200<br>
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