{"id":33474,"date":"2007-06-01T08:24:18","date_gmt":"2007-06-01T12:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/swcommunity\/companies_step_"},"modified":"2007-06-01T08:24:18","modified_gmt":"2007-06-01T12:24:18","slug":"companies_step_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2007\/06\/companies_step_.html","title":{"rendered":"Companies Step Up to Help Group Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> SolidWorks User Group leaders are special people, spending a lot of time to organize meetings, gather presentations, and keep their members informed about upcoming events.&nbsp; Much of the time they spend is their own.&nbsp; I&#8217;m reminded on occasion though that some of the companies that they work for offer an incredible amount of support.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Whitten, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swugn.org\/pages\/calendar\/UGdetails.html?id=254\">Boston Area SolidWorks User Group<\/a> leader sent me a note recently to let me know how much his company helps.<\/p>\n<p><em>Richard,<br \/>I would like to say thanks to <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trucorporation.com\/\"><em>TRU Corporation<\/em><\/a><em> for all the support they have given me with regard to BASWUG.&nbsp; TRU has allowed me the time I need to make arrangements for meetings, and have offered to host our upcoming June 13th <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swugn.org\/pages\/calendar\/UGdetails.html?id=254\"><em>meeting<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp; They&#8217;re even pitching in for the food.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Thank you TRU Corporation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Warren Whitten<br \/>BASWUG President<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s great to see that companies such as TRU Corporation understand the benefits of SolidWorks user groups &#8211; to their employees and to the fine people that run the group. <a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/tru.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SolidWorks User Group leaders are special people, spending a lot of time to organize meetings, gather presentations, and keep their members informed about upcoming events.&nbsp; Much of the time they spend is their own.&nbsp; I&#8217;m reminded on occasion though that<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2007\/06\/companies_step_.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[454],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-user-groups"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}