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32 Sample Uses for the Web Site

Get timely information with 24-hour convenience.
Lose your newsletter? Is it buried under two weeks of mail? Go to the web site to get the same, if not more, information.
Replace the newsletter altogether with the web site and e-mail notification. By cutting down on the number of newsletters printed and mailed, you can help us redirect those funds to other member benefits.
Click on the map link to see where meetings are being held. Even get directions! Go to the Home and Calendar pages.
You can sign up for the upcoming meeting with the Meeting Sign Up form, get to it from the Feedback page.
Read about fellow members and companies in the news on the Home page.
Read about what's happening at ASME International.
Give us feedback by participating in the poll on the Home page. We really would like to know what your needs are.
Check out the Tips, Tricks and Trivia corner on the Home page.
Contribute your favorite tips, tricks and trivia. Use the Feedback page.
Join the Section e-mailing list. Use the Join Mailing List box at the bottom of nearly every page.
Look at the Calendar page to see when ASME meetings are scheduled so you can plan.
See what mechanical engineering events, training, job fairs, etc. are coming up. Go to the Calendar page.
Post events, job fairs, conferences, etc. that you hear about so that fellow engineers can attend. Use the Feedback page.
Looking for something through the internet or a good reference book? Check out our Resource pages, it might be listed there already. Subjects include: Associations, Consulting, Design, Employment, Government, Handbooks, PE/FE Exam, Regional, and Suppliers.
Contribute your own list of dog-eared references and favorite web sites. Add to any of the existing subjects or start a new one. Mechanical engineering is such a broad subject. You can help a colleague find a resource quicker. Ever get 653,259 matches to your internet search? Use the Feedback page to make your contribution.
Looking for an expert in another discipline? Look in the Resources page under Associations.
Download a list of area recruiters from the Employment page.
Look for a job or internship on the Opportunities page or the Resources page under Employment.
Post a job or internship on the Opportunities page. You'll have a highly targeted audience.
If you get a tip about a job but you aren't interested, tell your contact to list it on our web site using the Feedback page. Perhaps someone else is a perfect match.
Post your qualifications on the Opportunities page, the electronic equivalent of the newsletter resume board. If you want to stay anonymous, we can use codes to identify you. (For members only.)
Contact anyone on the Executive Committee on the Committee page.
Search the site or search the web with the Site Plans page and search box.
Let us know what you want from your membership. Use the Feedback page.
Give us ideas on topics that you would like to hear at the meetings, professional development courses you'd like to take, etc. Use the Feedback page.
Do you remember a topic featured in a past newsletter? Search the Archive pages.
Want to know what happened at past meetings? Look in the Archives page.
Missed a meeting and would like to get a copy of the handouts? Look in the Archives page to see if they've been contributed.
Published a paper or made a presentation that you'd like to share with your colleagues? Contribute it to the Archives page.
Want to know where past meetings have been held? Go to the Archives page under Maps.
If you are part of a company that supports the mechanical engineering community, you can sponsor ASME Pittsburgh with ads or by getting involved in our activities. Go to the Home page then follow the link to the Sponsors page for more details.

7+ Potential Uses for the Web Site

If you are a consultant we can start a consultants page and you can be listed as an expert in a topic. We might consider single page electronic brochures—let us know.
We can showcase the activities and accomplishments of our younger members in the Student pages.
We could have a discussion forum where we can interact with our colleagues. With our busy schedules and as widely distributed, as we are, we may not be able to attend meetings. We can however, hop onto the internet at any time of day and ask for recommendations on a local machine shop, etc.
Stuck on a particularly confounding design problem? Need a new perspective? With a discussion forum, you could post a question and discuss it with other experts.
We can have "Ask an Expert" on a discussion forum. Volunteers can field questions in their area of expertise.
Missed a meeting and want to know what happened? You could post a question on the discussion forum.
With a discussion forum, visitors, business travelers, and new transplants to the area can ask the locals questions about the area.

9 Reasons for Getting Involved

Help create our own, regional, mechanical engineering community in this ever-changing cyber-world.
Networking by exchanging ideas and building relationships with colleagues is one powerful way of gaining knowledge and enhancing your career.
Share your knowledge.
Make a difference.
Join in on the wave of the future.
If you like the discussion forum idea, help us bring it to reality. We can't launch it until we have more resources to support it.
If you want to get involved with the web site development, you'll learn, apply or teach new skills.
Web site publishing is "instant gratification," within minutes you are published for the world to see.
Join the web site team and get free meals—maybe we can have pizza meetings!? (Under consideration…)

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