The Commercial Forum welcomed the opportunity to hold a member meeting and a presentation at PACE 2010 held in Phoenix, AZ, February 7 - 10, 2010.  Meeting with fellow Forum members and prospective members provided great peer networking opportunities.

PDCA Commercial Forum Roundtable Discussions at PACE 2010
The Member meeting was open to Forum Members and non-members interested in learning more about the Forum.  A report on 2009 activites was given, the activities plan and communication schedule for 2010 was handed out and discussed.  The plan for 2010 is to help build PDCA Membership and strengthen the PDCA Commercial Forum. 
  • A new committee structure was shared with a request for participants for the following committees:  Education, Sponsorship and Website and Promotion. 
  • A monthly webinar will be hosted for members.  Some monthly webinars may be live but most will be delivered via recorded webinar available to members and their employees when their schedule permits.  All webinars will be recorded and available to members in the Member Asset area of the Forum's website.   
  • eNews emailed newsletter will be going to members and prospective members on a scheduled monthly basis.  January's issue was sent the last week of January and February's will be delayed due to PACE.  The eNews will be sent via email by mid month during the balance of 2010. 
  • A new quarterly newsletter with more in depth articles and sponsor additions and promotions will be built in PDF format.  This new publication will be used to help drive new members to PDCA and the Forum from outside of the existing PDCA membership. It will also be used in the hopes of recruiting more Forum members from within the world of PDCA. The first issue is scheduled to be sent out at the end of March. 
  • The Forum's Annual Conference will be held in Chicago, June 10th to 12th.  This geographically central location was seledcted by the Forum's Board to make travel easier for members and others. We will be using a hotel and meeting facility near Chicago O'Hare Airport to keep registration and hotel guest room costs as low as possible.
  • Forum website to be reviewed by new committee and updated.  A new Member Community feature is to be added to the site to better facilitate Peer Connection and Collaboration for Forum Members.
  • Continue to notify Members about their Micro Website and listing on the Forum's website.  Members are able to add company descriptive information to their listing.
Forum Roundtable Discussions provided 40 attendees with valuable brief presentation and peer interaction.  Topics discussed included Remote Online Access to Office Systems, Networking with Associations to Build Business, Using Sub-Contractors, and Project Information and Measuring Systems.  The well attended session lasted two hours and attendees were able to go to all tables or just the ones that were of interest to them.