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“Live Learning Center” Will Triple Value of national Conference!
Ever look over a grid of breakout sessions at a CMAA conference and wish you could be in two or three places at the same time? Or come home from a conference to realize the details of some presentations have gotten a little vague? Those common conference experiences will be part of the past once CMAA rolls out its new Live Learning Center at the National Conference & Trade Show in October. Through the LLC, every conference attendee will have convenient, unlimited access to the full content of all presentations. This dramatic enhancement amounts to tripling the value of the conference! Among the highlights of the Live Learning Center, every presentation—nearly 40 in all—will be accessible online in the form of complete slide presentations with fully synchronized, high quality audio. The LLC interface will provide a “notes” pane for personal notations…and the slides won’t advance until you’re ready! It also will be easy to view or download session handouts, web URLs and other multimedia content. The value of the LLC actually starts well before the Conference. Attendees will be able to: • Search presentations by topic, speaker, or keyword; • View session descriptions and speaker information; • Download presentation times and locations to their desktop calendars or personal digital devices; • Compile an individual calendar for the entire Conference. “We always try to put a top-quality presentation in every time slot at every conference,” says CMAA President & CEO Bruce D’Agostino, CAE, FCMAA. “As a result, attendees have often had to worry that they were missing something important, even if the session they were attending was excellent. Now, that concern is no more. In effect, beginning with this year’s National Conference, CMAA will deliver three times as much content for every attendee.” Beginning with the 2010 Water Summit in Kansas City, prospective speakers have used the LLC to submit their session proposals online. This has not only streamlined the review and approval process but also enabled CMAA to move content like session descriptions directly from approved proposals into conference brochures, the website, and the LLC planning functions. To offset the cost of this major enhancement, CMAA will eliminate the difference in registration fees between the first registrant from a member company and subsequent registrants. No other registration fees will change. CMAA members who do not attend the Conference will still have the opportunity to purchase the complete slides/audio programs at a fee to be determined. Click here to view the Call for Proposals for San Diego.

Stan Slap, Expert on “Ferocious Support,” Will Keynote in San Diego
His corporate biography says that, “Stan is intent on making a profound difference in the world—before he is forcibly removed from it.” Stan Slap, corporate strategist, consultant and author, credits his “hoodlum neurons” for the success he has had in helping companies reach new levels of success. He’ll share his approach to revolutionizing organizational performance as keynote speaker at CMAA’s National Conference & Trade Show in San Diego in October. Slap’s book, Bury My Heart in Conference Room B: What Truly Drives the Most Passionate Managers, will be published in late summer by HarperCollins.

LEED® Green Associate Training at national Conference
LEED Green Associate is the first step in the career pathway of a LEED Professional. To earn it, a candidate must demonstrate an aptitude for sustainable building design, construction and operations for new construction and major renovations. CMAA will present a full-day LEED Green Associate Exam Prep Course as a pre-conference workshop at the National Conference. The course will take place Saturday, October 2, the day before the San Diego conference starts, at the Manchester Grand Hyatt. Watch for additional details on the CMAA website.

Good-bye—At Last—To a June Tradition at CMAA
Ah, June! Time to think of graduations, weddings, Father’s Day…and mountains of three-ring binders. FedEx and UPS drivers have come to dread the day that Project Achievement Award submissions are due at CMAA. First, because there have been as many as 150 of them recently and second, because they all arrive the same day (otherwise known as the last possible moment!) Implementing the new Live Learning Center for the National Conference & Trade Show brought the opportunity to move the awards submission and judging processes online as well. Submitters will now provide a single PDF file, including all the usual tabs, photos and attachments that go into an award application. But they won’t have to print, collate, hole-punch, assemble and ship their entries. Nor will the judges have to wade through stacks of binders, pass them around, and jump back and forth to make comparisons among projects. The entire process will now be handled online. As a bonus, the LLC will enable CMAA to create a permanent, searchable archive of award submissions. Project Achievement Awards submissions are due by midnight, June 25.

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