Chamber president and CEO Rob Wonderling thanks our members and sponsors for a successful and robust 2009-2010 program year.
As Rob mentions, the Chamber held over 140 programs this year, with over 20,000 attendees and 142 sponsors. We have also served as a fierce advocate for sound public policy, reaching 2,000 public officials at the federal, state, regional and local levels, and holding over 150 policy, site consultant and government meetings this year.
With the help of our members and sponsors, we have been able to host timely events throughout the year that have focused on current issues critical to the business community. Some of the new events this year focused on clean tech, cloud computing, diversity, healthcare reform, social media training, the H1N1 virus, and the gubernatorial race.
Also new this year was eBid Connect, an exclusive, members-only benefit that delivers daily email notifications of public sector projects in the Greater Philadelphia region. With over 400 new projects listed each day, these timely alerts include actual project information for bids and RFPs.
We have also grown our social media network, through which our members can continue to connect with each other outside of our events. We currently have 580 Facebook fans and 420 Twitter followers, and have posted 29 YouTube videos this year.
Thank you once again for helping us to make this program year so successful, and we look forward to an even more successful 2010-2011 program year.
