{"id":33492,"date":"2007-09-04T13:26:05","date_gmt":"2007-09-04T17:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/swcommunity\/speak-now-or-pa"},"modified":"2007-09-04T13:26:05","modified_gmt":"2007-09-04T17:26:05","slug":"speak-now-or-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2007\/09\/speak-now-or-pa.html","title":{"rendered":"Speak Now or Pay Full Admission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/pages\/swworld08\/index.html\">SolidWorks World Conference and Exposition<\/a> is a short 4-1\/2 months away.&nbsp; Registration is open, and it&#8217;s already too late to be the first registrant.&nbsp; It&#8217;s not too late to take advantage of the $200early-bird discount, but that offer ends September 21st.&nbsp; And if you wait until after December 14th, the price goes up again.<\/p>\n<p>But there is a nifty way to earn FREE admission to SolidWorks World, and all it takes is a willingness to share what you know about SolidWorks (and perhaps overcoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stevepavlina.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/overcoming-fear-of-public-speaking\/\">fear of public speaking<\/a>). Presenting a technical session at SolidWorks World may be one of the best job-related experiences you&#8217;ve ever had. <\/p>\n<p>Visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/pages\/swworld08\/index.html\">SolidWorks World<\/a> website and click on the Call-for-Papers link to submit your abstract.&nbsp; SolidWorks Corporation reviews submissions on a weekly basis, so you&#8217;ll be notified very soon if your session has been accepted.<\/p>\n<p>If you are accepted, and would like a chance to polish up your session, considered presenting at a local user group meeting or monthly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swugn.org\/pages\/summit\/SWUGN_Technical_Summit.html\">SWUGN Technical Summit<\/a>.&nbsp; Contact me for information on getting scheduled for one of these events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SolidWorks World Conference and Exposition is a short 4-1\/2 months away.&nbsp; Registration is open, and it&#8217;s already too late to be the first registrant.&nbsp; It&#8217;s not too late to take advantage of the $200early-bird discount, but that offer ends<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2007\/09\/speak-now-or-pa.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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33492","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=33492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}