The summer is heating up and so are HUG activities. The Board met in mid-May at HUG member Hotel1000 in Seattle, WA for our first crack at getting the details down for the conference. We spent time going through our membership's suggestions on conference format, session ideas, and networking events with the hope of seeing them put into action at Chateau Elan in October. The thoughts, ideas, and suggestions from our membership and vendor sponsors helps us try to tailor the conference and improve the experience.

Part of creating the best conference experience is having the right people showing others how to use sms|Host, SpaSoft, and Atrio to the fullest! Having session leaders from the membership is important to conference goers for a couple of reasons: everyone uses sms|Host just a bit differently and others value that difference. Look around while you read this and say to yourself, "Am I great at my job and do I excel within my PSMS product?". If the answer is "YES!" or even "Yeah, I'm pretty good" then you'd be perfect for becoming a session leader. Nervous about leading a session? Don't be! You know the material! You've been using it inside and out and you're a ninja! Plus... you get a free registration to the conference.

In the next month or so, you should begin seeing more and more information coming to your snail-mail mailbox and at smshug.org. Here you'll find information about becoming a session leader, registering, and sessions to be offered at the conference, so keep an eye out for both. And as always, we are updating information on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn so if you can't get enough HUG news, "Like", "Follow", and "Join" today.

Our online registration has opened! Be sure and register for this year's conference before the early bird deadline of September 12, 2014!

Keep cool!
Joe