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Speaker: Andy Steggles, Chief Operating Officer and Social Strategist
Wednesday, 11:30am Social Media for Beginners: Bring your Laptop
1:40pm Engagement Metrics
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About Our 2010 Theme - Lean AND Green: Doing Better With Less
Lean AND Green-two objectives that while seemingly in conflict are truly parallel driving forces that together challenge engineering and scientific societies as we enter the second decade of the twenty-first century.
Thus, the challenge of being BOTH Lean AND Green: Doing Better With Less is the theme for The 2010 CESSE Annual Meeting.
The drive to create a more sustainable and less resource-consuming environment is inexorable. Our members increasingly expect the practices of our associations--our meetings, publishing, communications, membership, marketing, the officing of our staffs, and our other activities-to reflect sustainable solutions.
And clearly as challenging, especially over the past two and one-half years of relentless economic decline, has been the simultaneous drive to tighten our belts, find ways to spend less, and yet do more for our members to help them cope with their own economic hardships.
Some might ask how engineering and scientific societies can reconcile these seemingly opposing forces in the middle of the most severe recession the country has experienced in decades? We have, we can and we will.
Many of us have reduced staff, eliminated unproductive programs, cut costs, and discovered new operational efficiencies. But at the same time, we have also introduced energy saving, environmentally sensitive practices. It has not been easy, but we have done it and our associations will come out stronger for the challenge and the struggle.
One of the principal sources of our strength has historically been each other. Come join your colleagues from other engineering and scientific societies for a rich opportunity to share experiences and best practices, learn from each other, test out your ideas and form collaborative working relationships.
And what better place to challenge our thinking, exchange ideas, and focus on innovative practices than Pittsburgh- one of the top 10 metro areas in the country for green jobs-a city that exemplifies hard work, recovery and rebirth, innovation, overcoming economic decline and building a local economy focused on creating energy saving products, healthy working and living environments, and building new technologies.
Accept the challenge to be both Lean AND Green, July 13-16, 2010 in Pittsburgh, PA. We look forward to welcoming you to a rich and rewarding opportunity to Do Better With Less.